February 13, 2022 • Automated Camera Tickets,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Corruption,
Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
Red-Light Camera,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road Safety,
SAFETY,
Speed Cameras,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
Traffic Tickets It didn’t take long after Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Transportation Secretary, introduced his department’s 42-page National Roadway Safety Strategy for people to grasp the importance of a tiny sentence buried in Note 3 on Page 28 of the report: “Promote speed safety cameras as a proven safety countermeasure.” Protestations emanated from as far away as the […]
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 […]
September 12, 2021 • Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Corruption,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
infrastructure,
Infrastructure Funding,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
Red-Light Camera,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road User Charge,
SAFETY,
SCHOOL BUS,
School Bus Cameras,
School Bus Stop Arm Cameras,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Tickets,
VISION ZERO The sausage-making is in full swing as opposing parties in Washington wrestle the Senate’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and the House’s $3.5 trillion version to the ground. In Infrastructure Urgency, Part 1, NMA E-Newsletter #659, we shared the first two in a series of NMA emails directed to members of the Transportation & Infrastructure […]
February 16, 2020 • Corruption,
DUE PROCESS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
ILLINOIS,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
Red-Light Cameras,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
TICKET REVENUE Over the past several months, the latest Illinois red-light camera corruption case has unfolded. The 2014 Redflex bribery scandal preceded the current mess. Several company and public officials went to jail, and in 2017, Redflex paid the city of Chicago a $20 million settlement. You would have thought that the state had learned its lessons, […]
May 5, 2019 • Corruption,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SEAT BELT,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic stops,
Traffic Tickets Editor’s Note: Over the years, the NMA has received occasional contact from law enforcement officers who have complained about department policies, sometimes crafted to avoid direct violation of state anti-ticket-quota laws, which force officers to write a predetermined number of citations during each work shift. The following commentary recently submitted to us by “Officer Frank” […]
