By Stewart W. Price, President of the National Motorists Association In January of 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation, led by Secretary Pete Buttigieg, published the “National Roadway Safety Strategy,” (NRSS) which serves as the playbook for revamping our current roadway system. It spells out the following goals and corresponding implementation strategies for: Safer People […]
January 1, 2023 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
MUTCD,
NEWSLETTER,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
speed limits,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Tickets 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, […]
November 27, 2022 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
CALIFORNIA,
Complete Streets,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GPS,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
OREGON,
Road Safety,
speed limits,
Technology,
VISION ZERO All traffic is local, and nothing gets people riled up more than speed limits. The 85th percentile has been the standard for measuring speed limits for years. Due to pressure from groups such as Vision Zero and Complete Streets, this standard of measuring speed is losing ground in states such as California, Oregon, and Massachusetts, […]
December 19, 2021 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
Bicyclist,
Bike Lanes,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Idaho Stop,
infrastructure,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEWSLETTER,
Parking,
PEDESTRIAN,
Speed Bumps,
speed limits,
Stop Signs,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
VISION ZERO Even before the pandemic, bike lanes were springing up all over the country in cities large and small. Most motorists weren’t happy, mainly because fewer travel lanes typically translated into longer trips through congested traffic. During the pandemic, the rate of cities building bike lanes and banning cars on streets rose dramatically. The anti-car crowd […]
December 12, 2021 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
Bicyclist,
CALIFORNIA,
CROSSWALK,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Idaho Stop,
Jaywalking,
LEGISLATION,
LIDAR,
NEWSLETTER,
PEDESTRIAN,
RADAR,
SAFETY,
speed limits,
SPEED TRAP,
SPEEDING,
Stop Signs,
TICKET QUOTA,
TRAFFIC CALMING,
Traffic Safety,
VISION ZERO In October, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed AB122, a bill that would have enabled bicyclists to utilize the Idaho Stop (using stop signs as yield signs if no cars or pedestrians are present). Newsom cited safety as the primary reason for the veto: “While I share the author’s intent to increase bicyclist safety, I am […]
