Last week, in Part one of Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge?, we examined the efforts of various groups that are currently pushing road user fees onto the American public. (A road user charge or RUC is also commonly referred to as the Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax or VMT Tax […]
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Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge? Part 2—Congress: NMA E-Newsletter #550
July 29, 2019 • 1 Comment • DRIVERLESS CARS, Electric Vehicle, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, Infrastructure, REVENUE GENERATION, Road Usage Charge, TOLL ROAD, Traffic Congestion, VISION ZERO, VMT, VMT Tax
All Traffic is Local: A Look at Force-Fed Road Diets
• June 21, 2019 • 0 Comments • Bicyclist, FHWA, Mass Transit, NMA, Ridesharing, Road Diets, SAFETY, Scooters, Traffic Congestion, VISION ZERO
This post originally appeared as the cover story for the NMA Foundation’s Driving Freedoms Magazine Spring 2019. Driving can sometimes be a daily grind. But when cities reconfigure the streets you take every day—presumably, to make them safer—that daily grind often seems much worse. The war on cars, for many drivers, is no longer an […]
Hurtful words
If you call an accident a crash, does it hurt more? According to Denver police the answer is yes. The number of fatal “crashes” in 2018 was higher than the number of fatal “accidents” in any of the previous 12 years. To the surprise of police, politicians, and federal bureacrats, changing the name did not […]
The Not-So-Hidden Cost of Vision Zero
May 17, 2019 • 1 Comment • Bicycle, Bicyclist, Road Diets, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, Traffic Congestion, VISION ZERO
Originally posted on August 12, 2018, this NMA newsletter is #500. The implementation of Vision Zero programs, with the goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities through various means including reducing vehicle speed and movement, is spreading to many U.S. cities seemingly without concern for cost. If Vision Zero had a goal of minimizing road deaths […]
NMA Principle Number 7: Motorists’ rights that keep pace with technological advances
• April 19, 2019 • 0 Comments • Auto Industry, Breathalyzers, CELL PHONE, connected cars, Driver's License, DRIVERLESS CARS, Insurance Companies, Mass Transit, NMA, PRIVACY, Ridesharing, SAFETY, street furniture, Technology, Traffic Congestion, VISION ZERO
The Driving in America Blog was started a year ago to bring more information to those who are beginning their journey as motorists’ rights advocates. Over the next several months, I will be working with each of the seven NMA principles to give readers of this weekly blog some idea of what we all are working towards […]
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