By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared as the cover story in the Winter 2022 Edition of the National Motorists Association’s quarterly magazine Driving Freedoms. If you would like to receive our magazine, please become a member of the NMA today! Advocating for speed limits based on sound traffic-engineering […]
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The Changing Landscape of Speed Limits
March 18, 2022 • 1 Comment • 85TH PERCENTILE, Bicycle, Complete Streets, Driver's License, FHWA, Infrastructure, ITE, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, MUTCD, NMA, NMSL, PEDESTRIAN, Road Diets, road safety, SAFETY, Speed Limits, Speed Traps, Traffic Calming, Traffic Congestion, VISION ZERO
Become the Tracker, not the Tracked: NMA E-Newsletter #684
February 21, 2022 • 0 Comments • Driver Courtesy, HOV, LEGISLATION, NMA, Red-Light Cameras, School Bus Cameras, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, TOLLING, VISION ZERO
Legislation is commonly used to codify public policy, whether good, bad, or indifferent. Perhaps more than you might expect, bills introduced in the U.S. Congress and state legislatures can have undue influence on how we drive, where we drive, and what controls are in place to punish offenders. We developed the NMA Bill/Regulation Tracker (Tracker) […]
Beating the Photo Ticket Runaround
February 11, 2022 • 0 Comments • Automated Traffic Enforcement, NMA, Red-Light Cameras, SHORT YELLOW LIGHT, SPEED LIMIT, TICKET CAMERA, Traffic Signals, Traffic Tickets, YELLOW LIGHT, Yellow Light Duration, YELLOW LIGHT TIMING
This article first appeared in the Fall 2021 edition of the National Motorists Association’s Driving Freedoms magazine. As a member of the NMA, you receive an automatic subscription four times per year. Become a member today and help the NMA advocate against automated traffic enforcement and other issues affecting motorists. Editor’s Note: Many accounts have […]
And So It Begins—Vision Zero from the Top Down: NMA E-Newsletter #682
February 7, 2022 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Corruption, CROSSWALK, DMV, FHWA, Infrastructure, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, MUTCD, NHTSA, NMA, NSC, PEDESTRIAN, REVENUE GENERATION, road safety, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, Street Lights, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, VISION ZERO
US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently announced that his department wants to drastically reduce deadly traffic accidents through vehicle and street design changes. The USDOT also plans to use $14 billion in funding from the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill to encourage the states to make extensive use of speed cameras to enforce lowered […]
The Best Satire Mirrors Reality: NMA E-Newsletter #680
Omeleto released a video in March 2021 that describes a utopian society where citizens are programmed to spy on each other. It is brilliant and disturbing. One vignette depicts a man blowing desperately into a breathalyzer device telescoping from the steering wheel of his vehicle to start it. The developers were prescient. Later that same […]
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