Some petty bickering among New York politicians led to a surprising if accidental victory for drivers. The state legislature refused to renew authorization for most of New York City’s speed cameras. I’d like to think this followed the Daily News report saying people with money were ignoring camera tickets, which don’t put points on licenses. […]
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Vehicle Emissions Standards—Now What?
• April 8, 2018 • 0 Comments • ARIZONA, Auto Industry, CALIFORNIA, CONNECTICUT, Fuel, MAINE, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, OREGON, PENNSYLVANIA, RHODE ISLAND, VERMONT, VMT, WASHINGTON
The long awaited but not too surprising ruling by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week on turning back the Obama era CAFÉ Standards seems to have confused the issue even more. At issue: by 2025, automakers who want to sell new cars to American consumers must boost a corporate average fuel economy (CAFÉ) to […]
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
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 […]
Welcome to the future
I’ve always liked dystopian fiction. I took May 3, 2010 off work so I could reread the classic SF novel Stand on Zanzibar (set on that day, four decades hence). In music, I like Billy Joel’s “Miami 2017” (also four decades ahead) about the decline and fall of New York City. Happily, overpopulation is not […]
How guilty do you have to be?
One of New York City’s Mayor de Blasio’s early acts was a law jailing drivers who don’t yield to pedestrians. One of the judiciary’s most recent acts was to declare that law unconstitutional. From my vantage point in Massachusetts this seems like a silly controversy. It was long ago settled here that if you run […]
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