By Christopher M. DiPrima, NMA Board Member Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #629, emailed in January 2021. If you would like to receive the weekly newsletter, register today at the NMA! George Orwell’s seminal 1984 has defined political discourse for over 70 years. Among the book’s most prescient concepts is doublethink, the […]
73 Blog Posts From the VISION ZERO Tag
The Orwellian Era of Transportation Planning
April 14, 2021
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Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Mass Transit, Parking, Road Diets, Speed Limits, Traffic Calming, Traffic Congestion, Traffic Signals, VISION ZERO
Drivers to be given Real-Time “Risk Scores” using Embedded Telematic Surveillance Sensors
March 17, 2021
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Auto Industry, Black Boxes, CELL PHONE, connected cars, GPS, INSURANCE, Insurance Companies, M2M, OBD, PRIVACY, racial profiling, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Technology, VISION ZERO
By Joe Cadillic, co-writer of the NMA Street Surveillance Blog and founder of the MassPrivatel Blog Gone are the days when insurance companies used race, sex, and a person’s age to determine their auto insurance premiums. A new whitepaper by Cognizant, titled The New Auto Insurance Ecosystem: Telematics, Mobility and the Connected Car, reveals the real reasons […]
How can NYC Keep Moving with Ideas like This?
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March 10, 2021
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Bicycle, Bicyclist, Congestion Pricing, E-ZPass, Gas Tax, Infrastructure, KUSM, Mass Transit, New York City, NMA, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, Ridesharing, SAFETY, TOLLING, tolls, Traffic Congestion, VISION ZERO
The anti-car and Big Bike media agenda fever pitch seems to have exploded like a volcano recently. As I have written before, there are many reasons why people need to drive in NYC and everywhere else. Not everyone will be able to use a bike or walk or take transit for many reasons. But the […]
The War on Parking Escalates: NMA E-Newsletter #633
March 1, 2021
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Bicycle, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, Parking, REVENUE GENERATION, Ridesharing, VISION ZERO
Even before the pandemic, the war on parking was ramping up in America. The curb was escalating as the place of most conflict, and that battle has only increased. The mission to eliminate curb parking by repurposing the space for bike and bus lanes is supported more by wishful Vision Zero thinking than any serious […]
The Orwellian Era of Transportation Planning: NMA E-Newsletter #629
February 1, 2021
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Bicycle, Complete Streets, Mass Transit, Parking, Road Diets, SPEED LIMIT, Traffic Calming, Traffic Congestion, Traffic Signals, VISION ZERO
By Christopher M. DiPrima, NMA Board Member George Orwell’s seminal 1984 has defined political discourse for over 70 years. Among the book’s most prescient concepts is doublethink, the practice of using contradictory terminology to obscure the government’s actions. In 1984, the Ministry of Peace propagates war; the Ministry of Plenty rations goods; the Ministry of […]
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