Summer is the time when communities across the country conduct their annual crosswalk sting operations in which undercover police officers walk out into busy intersections hoping they won’t get run over. The purpose is to ticket passing drivers who fail to yield to, or stop for, the “pedestrian” in the crosswalk. Locally, the unlucky undercover […]
10 Alerts From the COMMUNITY Tag
If it Walks Like a Duck: NMA E-Newsletter #341
July 26, 2015 • COMMUNITY, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, NEWSLETTER, NORTH CAROLINA, SAFETY, VISION ZERO, WASHINGTON D.C.
NMA E-Newsletter #332: The Future of Police/Community Relations
May 24, 2015 • COMMUNITY, CRIMINAL, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, ILLEGAL SEARCH, MARYLAND, MISSOURI, NATIONAL, NEW YORK, NEWSLETTER, PROTEST, SOUTH CAROLINA, WASHINGTON, WISCONSIN
By John Bowman, NMA Vice President I recently had the privilege of speaking at a regional meeting of state motorcycle riders associations. A few minutes into my presentation an audience member stood up and forcefully objected to what he thought were my unfair and ill-informed comments about the nature of traffic enforcement. I asked the […]
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 […]
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. […]
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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