116 Alerts From the CALIFORNIA Tag

NMA E-Newsletter: #305: T’row de Bum(s) Out!

November 16, 2014 • ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COMMUNITY, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, KANSAS, MARYLAND, MISSOURI, NEWSLETTER, OHIO, PETITION, RED LIGHT CAMERA, TEXAS, TICKET CAMERA, WASHINGTON, WISCONSIN

By Gary Biller, NMA President Popular lore has it that the phrase “throw the bums out” originated during the 1941 World Series when the New York Yankees faced off against the Brooklyn Dodgers. A man supposedly walked into a bar—stop us if you’ve heard this one before—in Brooklyn in the midst of the games and […]

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NMA E-Newsletter: #304: Wiping Out While Riding the Wave of “Smart Growth”

November 9, 2014 • CALIFORNIA, COMMUNITY, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, VISION ZERO

Editor’s Note: In a recent e-newsletter we discussed how planners want to remake the urban landscape to discourage automobile travel. But as often happens with such schemes, the law of unintended consequences comes to bear. This is what happened in in Long Beach, California, as described in this first-hand account by a California NMA member. […]

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NMA E-Newsletter #301: Caution! This is a Completely Hypothetical Exercise that could become Reality.

October 19, 2014 • CALIFORNIA, COMMUNITY, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, NMSL, SPEED LIMIT, TOLL, VMT

The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Resources Board (ARB) recently put on a presentation titled “The Science behind Sustainable Communities Strategies.” The stated goal was to provide “an objective review of the empirical evidence on how effective various transportation and land use strategies are at reducing vehicle miles traveled (and thus greenhouse gas emissions).” A […]

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NMA E-Newsletter #294: Numbers Don’t Lie, People Do

August 31, 2014 • CALIFORNIA, COMMUNITY, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, IIHS, NEW JERSEY, NEWSLETTER, RED LIGHT CAMERA, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA

We call it Competing Studies Syndrome. One study says red-light cameras significantly reduce accidents. Another says they have no effect, and still another says they actually increase accidents. Why so much conflicting information? An analysis published last month in The Journal of Evaluation and the Health Professions sheds some light on the issue. Researchers from […]

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NMA E-Newsletter #287: 2014 Second Quarter Legislative Update

July 13, 2014 • ALPR, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, Fuel Tax, IID, ILLINOIS, LASER, LEGISLATION, LICENSE PLATES, MISSOURI, NEW YORK, NEWSLETTER, NORTH CAROLINA, OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA, PRIVACY, RADAR, RED LIGHT CAMERA, SPEED CAMERA, SPEED LIMIT

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 second quarter of 2014. Here’s a brief summary of the driving-related issues we addressed. California Supported Senate Bill 893 which would strengthen privacy protections pertaining to […]

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