Care to hazard a guess on how much money the city of Los Angeles has raked in from traffic and parking enforcement during their last five fiscal years, which end each June 30th? If your estimate is more than half a billion dollars, you are getting warm. During those five years, Los Angeles collected more […]
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Crime Isn’t the Only Thing That Doesn’t Pay: NMA E-Newsletter #668
November 1, 2021 • 0 Comments • LOS ANGELES, Parking, parking tickets, REVENUE GENERATION, TICKET FINES, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
Over Engineering Speed Limits
October 29, 2021 • 3 Comment • 85TH PERCENTILE, Insurance Companies, NMA, NMSL, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Speed Bumps, Speed Limits, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Calming, traffic safety, Traffic Tickets
By an Anonymous NMA Member from Arizona The government recently lowered the speed limit on my main street from 45 to 40. I calculated that if I lived to the same age as my mother, the reduced speed limit would cost me five days of productive life. Not enough to worry about, but it’s the […]
Presenting the Next Automated Traffic Enforcement Device—the Noise Camera: NMA E-Newsletter #656
August 9, 2021 • 0 Comments • Automated Traffic Enforcement, LEGISLATION, NEW YORK, Road Diets, SPEEDING, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO
Let’s face it—most of us dislike loud motorcycles or vehicles revving up next to us at an intersection, blowing by us on an interstate, or disrupting the solitude of our neighborhoods. But to use automated devices to catch people who are exceedingly noisy seems to push us deeper into the world of Big Brother than […]
Which Car Modifications Are Illegal?
For many drivers, bringing a car home is only the first step to truly making it theirs. Once it’s in their garage, they begin the process of turning it into something they’re proud to drive. But how far is too far when it comes to vehicle modifications? Unfortunately, many of the popular mods you see […]
Equity and Sustainability
July 9, 2021 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, FHWA, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, MUTCD, NACTO, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, SAFETY, Speed Limits, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Congestion, Traffic Tickets
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in March 2021 as NMA E-Newsletter #637. If you would like to receive the NMA’s weekly one-topic newsletter, subscribe HERE. Those are the buzzwords used frequently by city transportation officials as they seek to achieve “complete streets” nirvana. Before we attempt to define the overused terms, it is essential […]
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