Old people tend not to drive fast. Or even the speed limit. They sometimes drive into things, too. This is understandable. They are, after all, old. One day — if we’re lucky — we’ll all be old. What grates is the deliberate obliviousness of some older drivers. Nothing like getting caught behind an old coot […]
This week’s success in regulating award
I just read another story of a successful program that’s supposed to be a model for the nation, but in fact accomplished nothing that anybody can see. It reminded me of many stories advocating increased traffic enforcement, and suffered the same flaws, but this one was about drinking and learning. The newspaper article was about […]
2016 Mazda Miata Review
If it had an accessible power point, it’d be the perfect car. That’s my only beef. No place to plug in the radar detector. Which is as necessary in this car as a dozen juice box holders are in a minivan. Well, no good — that is, accessible — place. It took thumbing through the […]
More excuses
Engineering judgment… factors not apparent… curves… driveways… transition… because we want to. Reading speed limit studies for California cities reminded me of the excuses engineers use when they don’t want to do their job. Based on an unscientific survey, about two-thirds of California municipal traffic engineers and consultants aren’t doing their job. Or they consider […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: March 2, 2016
March 2, 2016 • 0 Comments • Red-Light Cameras, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, TheNewspaper, Toll Roads, Traffic Tickets
Each Wednesday, we’ll publish quick summaries of the articles from the last week on TheNewspaper.com. We’re doing this because these articles are often strongly connected to the issues that National Motorists Association members are interested in. Wednesday, March 2, 2016 Virginia Lawmakers Consider Slowing Toll Push Virginia’s last three governors, Republican and Democrat alike, rejected […]
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