December 19, 2021 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
Bicyclist,
Bike Lanes,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Idaho Stop,
infrastructure,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEWSLETTER,
Parking,
PEDESTRIAN,
Speed Bumps,
speed limits,
Stop Signs,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
VISION ZERO Even before the pandemic, bike lanes were springing up all over the country in cities large and small. Most motorists weren’t happy, mainly because fewer travel lanes typically translated into longer trips through congested traffic. During the pandemic, the rate of cities building bike lanes and banning cars on streets rose dramatically. The anti-car crowd […]
By Christopher M. DiPrima, NMA Board Member Editor’s Note: In Part 1, Chris detailed two major causes of induced demand and explained why the overall supply vs. demand effects are manageable. Here he takes on some of the arguments which cite induced demand as a rationale against increasing highway capacity. Having established the relationship […]
By Christopher M. DiPrima, NMA Board Member Editor’s Note: We touched on induced demand—the theory that as highway capacity increases, demand does also, thereby creating a never-ending need for more capacity—in NMA E-Newsletter #599 last year. In light of the current infrastructure negotiations in Washington, and the ongoing effort to reshape urban land use by […]
September 19, 2021 • Congestion Pricing,
Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
Gas Tax,
GPS,
GPS TRACKING,
infrastructure,
Infrastructure Funding,
LEGISLATION,
Motorcycle,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PRIVACY,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road User Charge,
TOLLING,
tolls,
VMT,
VMT Tax,
WHEEL TAX Layered levels of taxation are nothing new to motorists. The gas tax, road tolls, congestion pricing, registration fees, and even wheel taxes are commonplace. Congress is looking at us hungrily again as being ripe for the picking as it debates the final details of desperately needed transportation infrastructure funding. The idea is not new. In […]
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 […]
