By Randal O’Toole, The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: This post recently appeared on The Antiplanner website and we thought it was an important piece for all NMA supporters to read and digest. Check out Part 1 here. The Benefits of Autos As a recent article by a British journalist noted, “the war on cars is a […]
By Randal O’Toole, writer of The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: Check out Part 1 here that explores what happened with transit before and during the pandemic. The NMA is reprinting with permission this post that first appeared on The Antiplanner website. Transit by Urban Area As of December, transit carried 58 percent of pre-pandemic riders in […]
By Randal O’Toole, writer of The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: The NMA is reprinting with permission this post that first appeared on The Antiplanner website. Despite receiving tens of billions of dollars in support from Congress, the transit industry in 2021 failed to recover most of the riders it lost to the pandemic in 2020. Ridership […]
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 […]
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 […]
