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 […]
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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
Recent Chicago Parking Audit Spells Bad News for Motorists (and Every Other Resident): NMA E-Newsletter #708
August 8, 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
As of 2022, 61 years are left on the 75-year parking meter lease now held by the Chicago Parking Meters LLC. A recent city audit stated that the private company had already recouped its entire $1.16 billion investment plus $502.5 million more. According to a recent Chicago Sun-Times article, Chicago parking meter revenue is back […]
NMA Legislative Roundup – January-June, 2022: NMA E-Newsletter #705
July 18, 2022 • 0 Comments • Automated Traffic Enforcement, CELL PHONE, DRONES, Facial Recognition, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, Lane Courtesy, LEGISLATION, Red-Light Cameras, SCHOOL BUS CAMERA, SPEED CAMERA, SPEED LIMIT, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
The January through June legislative activity at the state and national levels is complete. It is worth reviewing a report card of bills resolved during the period, motorist-related legislation that we followed. Overall, 38 bills that the NMA supported or opposed met the fate we desired as opposed to 21 that went against our wishes. […]
The USDOT, Speed Cameras, and Automated Corruption
June 10, 2022 • 0 Comments • Automated Camera Tickets, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Corruption, Driver's License, LEGISLATION, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, road safety, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, Traffic Tickets
By Gary Biller, NMA President Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on February 13, 2022, as a NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #683. It didn’t take long after Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Transportation Secretary, introduced his department’s 42-page National Roadway Safety Strategy for people to grasp the importance of a tiny sentence buried in Note 3 on Page 28 of […]
Speed Trap Karma Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #698
May 30, 2022 • 0 Comments • LEGISLATION, RADAR, RADAR DETECTOR, REVENUE GENERATION, SPEED LIMIT, Speed Limits, SPEED TRAP, Speed Traps, TICKET FINES, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, traffic enforcement, Traffic Tickets
Reason.com recently published a list of eleven U.S. towns where their police forces were either disbanded or their autonomy as a governmental entity was dissolved because of an addiction to, and dependence on, ticket revenue. We thought it would be informative to present excerpts from Reason’s article for those cities along with select driver-sourced comments […]
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