Activist groups waging war on urban auto use under the guise of pedestrian and bicyclist advocacy have found a new hook for their campaign: the “level of service” measure used by traffic planners to describe how efficiently a road works. Traffic engineers use manuals to compare the hourly volume on a road or through an […]
February 5, 2017 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEW JERSEY,
NEWSLETTER,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SHORT YELLOW LIGHT,
SPEED LIMIT,
speed limits,
speed traps,
TICKET REVENUE,
YELLOW LIGHT TIMING,
YELLOW LIGHTS By James C. Walker, NMA Life Member and Executive Director of the NMA Foundation Our news feed of January 24th had this article: Blue police lines on local roads could be safety risk. Several New Jersey communities painted blue lines in between double yellow lines on the roads to honor the police. This is a […]
Recent headlines screamed at us: Traffic Fatalities Up Sharply in 2015 NHTSA: 2015 Sees Largest Increase in Traffic Fatalities in Half Century Traffic Deaths in 2015 Climb by Largest Increase in Decades Highway Fatalities Jumped 7.2% Last Year Cheap Gas May Be Killing Us No, we didn’t make that last one up. The media reacted […]
July 17, 2016 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LICENSE,
NEWSLETTER,
NMSL,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEED TRAP,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC STOP Something has to change. In a day and age when traffic stops become literal life-and-death episodes, or at least become the spark that can set off a tinderbox of protest and violence, the interactions between police and motorists need to be examined more closely. Jim Walker, perhaps the NMA’s most prolific member in lobbying for […]
March 27, 2016 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
ARIZONA,
CALIFORNIA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
LEGISLATION,
LETTER WRITING,
MASSACHUSETTS,
MICHIGAN,
NEWSLETTER,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED,
SCHOOL BUS CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
TEXAS,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TOWING,
WEST VIRGINIA The NMA continues to advocate for motorists’ rights at the national, state and local level. Legislatures across the country took up a broad range of motorists’ issues in the first quarter of 2016. Here’s a brief summary of the driving-related issues we addressed. Arizona Opposed House Bill 2366 which would revise Arizona’s red-light camera law […]
