By guest writer Mariya Frost, Director, Coles Center for Transportation Washington Policy Center Editor’s note: This post first appeared on the Washington Policy Center Blog. The state Department of Commerce is very clear about its views on driving: officials must reduce or altogether eliminate people’s need to drive. In their latest draft of the state energy […]
November 29, 2020 • Bicycle,
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Technology,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION Black Friday kicked off the 2020 holiday gift-buying season. As a matter of fact, Black Friday sales this year started in the early part of November instead of the day after Thanksgiving. Most of these sales will likely be online due to the pandemic. According to Digital Commerce 360, US consumers are projected to spend […]
November 15, 2020 • ALABAMA,
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CALIFORNIA,
COLORADO,
Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Facial Recognition,
GEORGIA,
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Infrastructure Funding,
MAINE,
MARYLAND,
MASS TRANSIT,
MASSACHUSETTS,
MICHIGAN,
MONTANA,
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OREGON,
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Right to Repair,
Search Warrant,
TOLL,
TOLLING,
VIRGINIA,
Voting Statewide ballot initiatives and local votes on infrastructure and transit have now been finalized from the November 3, 2020 election. Check out the final results below from the motorists’ rights statewide initiatives we outlined in the NMA weekly E-Newsletter #612. Important local election results follow the state ballot initiatives reporting. Statewide Ballot Initiatives Arkansas […]
November 8, 2020 • Bicycle,
CELL PHONE,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
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SAFETY,
Technology By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director For years, an ongoing debate has been raging in the media about who would be responsible when a driverless vehicle injured or killed another road user. Perhaps, we will soon have the answer. In March 2018, Elaine Herzberg jaywalked from a center median with her bicycle across a dark […]
The warning signs have been around for a long time. The scramble to fall in line with Vision Zero demands that traffic fatalities be eliminated regardless of the cost to taxpayers, and society in general, has even affected organizations like the Institute of Transportation Engineers that are supposed to be protecting the engineering standards that […]
