Editor’s Note: The following content, reprinted in three parts — last week’s Part 1, this week’s Part 2, and Part 3 next week, is presented with permission from Randal O’Toole’s The Antiplanner, a blog whose tagline describes its point of view: “Dedicated to the sunset of government planning.” O’Toole is a senior fellow with the Cato […]
by Randal O’Toole, from The Antiplanner blog Editor’s Note: The following content, reprinted in three parts over this and the following two NMA e-newsletters, is presented with permission from Randal O’Toole’s The Antiplanner, a blog whose tagline describes its point of view: “Dedicated to the sunset of government planning.” O’Toole is a senior fellow with the Cato […]
June 6, 2021 • Congestion Pricing,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
ETL,
Gas Tax,
KANSAS,
LEGISLATION,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
Road Diets,
TOLL,
Toll Roads,
TOLLING,
TRAFFIC CALMING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
Traffic Safety By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director On a recent Saturday evening, I spoke at a concerned-citizen Zoom meeting on the planned express toll lanes for US Highway 69 in Overland Park, Kansas. In researching the topic and listening to local residents and commuters, I thought it would be appropriate to write about the difficulty in […]
March 28, 2021 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
Bicycle,
Bicyclist,
Complete Streets,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
infrastructure,
MASS TRANSIT,
MUTCD,
NACTO,
NEWSLETTER,
Parking,
PEDESTRIAN,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
Traffic Tickets Those are the buzzwords used frequently by city transportation officials as they seek to achieve “complete streets” nirvana. Before we attempt to define the overused terms, it is essential to know why they are more in vogue now in transportation and urban planning circles than ever before. In December, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) proposed […]
Even before the pandemic, the war on parking was ramping up in America. The curb was escalating as the place of most conflict, and that battle has only increased. The mission to eliminate curb parking by repurposing the space for bike and bus lanes is supported more by wishful Vision Zero thinking than any serious […]
