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 […]
May 29, 2022 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
RADAR,
RADAR DETECTOR,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED LIMIT,
speed limits,
SPEED TRAP,
speed traps,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Enforcement,
Traffic Tickets Reason.com recently published a list of eleven U.S. towns where their police forces were either disbanded or their autonomy as a governmental entity was dissolved because of an addiction to, and dependence on, ticket revenue. We thought it would be informative to present excerpts from Reason’s article for those cities along with select driver-sourced comments […]
May 22, 2022 • ALABAMA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
ILLEGAL SEARCH,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
OHIO,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEED TRAP,
speed traps,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Enforcement,
Traffic Tickets Reason.com recently published a list of eleven U.S. towns where their police forces were either disbanded or their autonomy as a governmental entity was dissolved because of an addiction to, and dependence on, ticket revenue. We thought it would be informative to present excerpts from Reason’s article for those cities along with select driver-sourced comments […]
The city of Detroit recently identified more than 2,000 new speed hump locations. The plan is to install 3,000 of the traffic obstacles by the end of 2022. That is in addition to the 5,500 humps added throughout the city in 2021. When this street obstacle program started as part of Detroit’s Complete Streets program, […]
By Clay Wirestone, a guest columnist for the Kansas Reflector Editor’s Note: The Kansas Reflector recently investigated Kansas’ new database for civil asset forfeiture and found many irregularities. Even though this piece is Kansas-focused, the type of issues Wirestone describes, particularly the lack of accountability and transparency, are traits shared by CAF programs in many […]
