By Don Bain, NMA Oregon Member Editor’s Note: Don submitted these comments to the NMA National Office in response to Newsletter #724 Taking the Politics Out of Speed Limit Setting. While sound from an engineering perspective, there’s an inherent challenge with speed surveys and the 85% percentile speed point: establishing and documenting what “free-flowing conditions” are, […]
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Taking the Politics Out of Speed Limit Setting—a Member Responds: NMA Newsletter #729
January 2, 2023 • 1 Comment • 85TH PERCENTILE, MUTCD, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, Speed Limits, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
Two Lanes of Driving Behavior–Are you a Safe Driver? Are you a Compliant Driver?
By Stewart Price, NMA Programs Officer Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #711 from August 2022. If you would like to subscribe to our single-topic motorist-issue weekly newsletter, click here. Until I started working here at the NMA, I thought these two questions are the same. As the French would say, “C’est […]
Recent Chicago Parking Audit Spells Bad News for Motorists (and Every Other Resident)
November 18, 2022 • 0 Comments • Automated Traffic Enforcement, Parking, Parking Meters, PPP, Public Private Partnership, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, Speed Cameras, SPEED LIMIT, Technology, TICKET REVENUE, TOLL ROAD, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #708 from August 2022. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, a weekly one-topic look at a motorist issue, click here. As of 2022, 61 years are left on the 75-year parking meter lease now held by the Chicago Parking Meters […]
The Yoke’s On You: Drive-by-Wire Steering
• November 15, 2022 • 0 Comments • connected cars, Electric Vehicle, Eric Peters, SPEED LIMIT, Technology
Do you like the idea of there being no physical connection between your steering wheel and the driving wheels? There’s already no physical connection between the gas pedal and throttle in most new cars. When you depress the gas pedal, the degree of depression is registered by sensors, which send data to the computer that controls […]
Is it Time to “Sound Off” about the Use of Lights and Sirens?
By Stewart Price, NMA Program Officer This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #707 from July 2022. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, a weekly one-topic look at a motorist issue, click here. All of us are gradually going deaf. The world is getting louder save for the isolationists that have gone off […]
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