To read Part 1, click HERE. New York City (NYC) finds itself in a transportation perfect storm. The subway system is at a breaking point. Residents are abandoning city buses by droves because it’s faster to walk most days. Ridesharing vehicles clog the already snarled streets. At the center of it all: the mayor and […]
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Congestion Pricing Cannot be the Future of Transportation Funding, Part 2: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #469
January 8, 2018 • 0 Comments • ALPR, CONNECTICUT, Mass Transit, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, New York City, TOLL, TOLL ROAD, TOLLING, Traffic Congestion, VISION ZERO
Your immunity has just been revoked
The biggest fringe benefit of a police job is immunity from prosecution. Drunk and reckless driving, no problem. Perjury, that’s “testilying” and everybody does it. Beat up your girlfriend, go outside and cool off. There are limits. If an innocent bystander dies, investigators may take the death halfway seriously. That happened in Connecticut recently. Off-duty […]
Dynamic lawbreaking
Here’s one more in the signs-as-toys category. Starting January 1, Connecticut law requires handicap parking signs to use a “dynamic” symbol (a man falling out of a wheelchair) instead of the International Symbol of Access (a man sitting in a wheelchair). The Federal Highway Administration previously ruled that the new “dynamic” design is not allowed […]
What $10 million per mile buys you
The steep slope with projecting rocks bothered me at first when I learned to drive. In time I understood they were not going to jump out and hit me. They got somebody. A drunk driver killed herself and her kids. The road got new warning signs for people who can see yellow signs but can’t […]
Don’t enter the box
The mayor of Hartford called it “common sense” that drivers shouldn’t block intersections. If it’s common sense, why didn’t he have police enforce the law earlier? Because there wasn’t any money in it. Now there is. With two exceptions, Connecticut municipal police can’t write tickets for revenue. They’ll do what I call “squeaky wheel” enforcement, […]
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