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 […]
By Stewart W. Price, President of the National Motorists Association In January of 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation, led by Secretary Pete Buttigieg, published the “National Roadway Safety Strategy,” (NRSS) which serves as the playbook for revamping our current roadway system. It spells out the following goals and corresponding implementation strategies for: Safer People […]
June 5, 2022 • DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
ITE,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
Road Safety,
Safe Streets,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEEDING,
Traffic Fatalities,
VISION ZERO,
VMT Recently, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued its estimate of 2021 U.S. traffic fatalities. A Reuters headline blared, “U.S. traffic fatalities surge 10.5% in 2021 to highest count since 2005,” followed by the lede, “Traffic deaths surged after coronavirus lockdowns ended in 2020 as more drivers engaged in unsafe behavior like speeding and […]
October 11, 2020 • Automated Traffic Enforcement,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
ITE,
NEWSLETTER,
RED LIGHT,
Red-Light Camera Tickets,
TICKET CAMERA,
TRAFFIC SIGNAL,
YELLOW LIGHT,
YELLOW LIGHT TIMING It is amazing that the topic of setting adequate yellow light intervals for traffic signals continues to be a hotly-contested topic among traffic engineers. The yellow timing is an important variable for intersection design, and it is also important to drivers for another reason: Short yellows combined with photo enforcement is a proven method for […]
The warning signs have been around for a long time. The scramble to fall in line with Vision Zero demands that traffic fatalities be eliminated regardless of the cost to taxpayers, and society in general, has even affected organizations like the Institute of Transportation Engineers that are supposed to be protecting the engineering standards that […]
