18 Alerts From the Complete Streets Tag

NMA E-Newsletter #736: Your Freedom to Travel is Under Attack

April 2, 2023 • Automated Camera Tickets, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FHWA, ITE, MASS TRANSIT, NEWSLETTER, NMA, NTSB, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, RACIAL PROFILING, RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED, Road Diets, SPEED LIMIT, speed limits, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, USDOT, War on Cars

By Jay Beeber, Director of Policy & Research, National Motorists Association If there was any doubt before, now we have a clear indication that the WAR ON CARS is real –and it’s being waged at the highest levels of society by authoritarian culture warriors. These tyrannical elitists seek to eliminate our freedom to travel where […]

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Taking the Politics Out of Speed Limit Setting: NMA E-Newsletter #724

November 27, 2022 • 85TH PERCENTILE, CALIFORNIA, Complete Streets, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, GPS, MASSACHUSETTS, NEWSLETTER, NMA, OREGON, Road Safety, speed limits, Technology, VISION ZERO

All traffic is local, and nothing gets people riled up more than speed limits. The 85th percentile has been the standard for measuring speed limits for years. Due to pressure from groups such as Vision Zero and Complete Streets, this standard of measuring speed is losing ground in states such as California, Oregon, and Massachusetts, […]

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Motor City should be Renamed Speed Hump City: NMA E-Newsletter #696

May 15, 2022 • Complete Streets, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, Speed Bumps, Speed Humps, TRAFFIC CALMING

The city of Detroit recently identified more than 2,000 new speed hump locations. The plan is to install 3,000 of the traffic obstacles by the end of 2022. That is in addition to the 5,500 humps added throughout the city in 2021. When this street obstacle program started as part of Detroit’s Complete Streets program, […]

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Tale of Two Cities’ Smart Intersection Programs: NMA E-Newsletter #693

April 24, 2022 • ADAPTIVE SIGNAL CONTROL, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Bicyclist, CELL PHONE, Complete Streets, DISTRACTED DRIVING, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, infrastructure, NEWSLETTER, PEDESTRIAN, Red-Light Camera, Technology, TICKET CAMERA, Traffic Safety, TRAFFIC SIGNAL, VISION ZERO

Pittsburgh, PA, and Lakeland, FL have instituted smart intersections but are handling them differently. As more cities become connected, i.e., having elements of infrastructure and society interconnected digitally via the internet, intelligent signaling might revolutionize traffic flow, for better or worse. Market analysis firm Navigant Research has projected that smart signals will become a $3.8 […]

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And So It Begins—Vision Zero from the Top Down: NMA E-Newsletter #682

February 6, 2022 • Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Corruption, CROSSWALK, DMV, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FHWA, infrastructure, LEGISLATION, MASS TRANSIT, MUTCD, NEWSLETTER, NHTSA, NMA, NSC, PEDESTRIAN, REVENUE GENERATION, Road Safety, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, speed limits, Street Lights, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, VISION ZERO

US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently announced that his department wants to drastically reduce deadly traffic accidents through vehicle and street design changes. The USDOT also plans to use $14 billion in funding from the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill to encourage the states to make extensive use of speed cameras to enforce lowered […]

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