March 27, 2022 • Bicyclist,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
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Parking,
PEDESTRIAN,
Road Diets,
ROUNDABOUT,
speed limits,
TRAFFIC CALMING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
VISION ZERO The city of Sarasota is located on the Gulf Coast of Florida, just south of Tampa. Its population has declined in recent years to about 55,000, according to the 2020 U.S. census, within 24 square miles of territory. During the winter months, the number of residents swells somewhat with the snowbird migration from the north. […]
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 […]
March 6, 2022 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
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POLICING FOR PROFIT,
Predatory Towing,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED TRAP,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TOWING,
Traffic Tickets Have you ever gone on a road trip and been caught in a speed trap in some little town in the middle of nowhere? That’s what happened to many motorists who drove through Brookside, Alabama in the last few years. The state’s Appleseed Center of Law and Justice has dubbed this town of 1,200 the […]
February 27, 2022 • ATA,
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FMCSA,
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SAFETY The minimum age to obtain a commercial driver’s license and drive a tractor-trailer within state boundaries is 18 in all states. Federal guidelines require the driver of 18-wheelers to be at least age 21. That appears to be changing. With the passage of the November 2021 $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Investment Act, Congress requires the Federal […]
