November 14, 2021 • Bicycle,
Bicyclist,
CELL PHONE,
Complete Streets,
CROSSWALK,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Jaywalking,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
PEDESTRIAN,
SAFETY,
TRAFFIC CALMING,
Traffic Safety,
VISION ZERO By Randal O’Toole, The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: The NMA has received permission to post this report on recent findings on traffic safety in the US. Parts 2 and 3 will be featured in subsequent weeks. About 20,160 people died in traffic accidents in the first half of 2021, according to an early estimate released last week by the […]
Editor’s Note: The following content, reprinted in three parts — last week’s Part 1, this week’s Part 2, and Part 3 next week, is presented with permission from Randal O’Toole’s The Antiplanner, a blog whose tagline describes its point of view: “Dedicated to the sunset of government planning.” O’Toole is a senior fellow with the Cato […]
March 28, 2021 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
Bicycle,
Bicyclist,
Complete Streets,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
infrastructure,
MASS TRANSIT,
MUTCD,
NACTO,
NEWSLETTER,
Parking,
PEDESTRIAN,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
Traffic Tickets 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 to know why they are more in vogue now in transportation and urban planning circles than ever before. In December, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) proposed […]
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 […]
January 31, 2021 • Bicycle,
Complete Streets,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEWSLETTER,
Parking,
Road Diets,
SPEED LIMIT,
TRAFFIC CALMING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
TRAFFIC SIGNAL,
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 […]
