January 7, 2018 • ALPR,
CONNECTICUT,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEW JERSEY,
NEW YORK,
New York City,
NEWSLETTER,
TOLL,
TOLLING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
VISION ZERO To read Part 1, click HERE. New York City (NYC) finds itself in a transportation perfect storm. The subway system is at a breaking point. Residents are abandoning city buses by droves because it’s faster to walk most days. Ridesharing vehicles clog the already snarled streets. At the center of it all: the mayor and […]
October 29, 2017 • DRIVER EDUCATION,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
ILLINOIS,
LEGISLATION,
LOUISIANA,
NEW JERSEY,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
NORTH CAROLINA,
TEXAS,
TRAFFIC STOP,
VIRGINIA Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia have passed legislation that mandates schools teach students how to conduct themselves around police. Texas passed its law in the last legislative session and mandated that high schools and especially driver’s education courses train students how to conduct themselves around law enforcement. Texas also passed a law to […]
October 8, 2017 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
INDIANA,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PPP,
Public Private Partnership,
ROAD-USER FEES,
TOLL,
TOLL ROAD,
TOLLING In late September, President Donald Trump changed his mind on PPPs or Public-Private Partnerships, one of his bedrock funding mechanisms for funding infrastructure. He campaigned on the idea of utilizing PPPs and seemed to be for the idea all the way up until he reversed his support when talking to the House Ways and Means […]
September 17, 2017 • CIVIL,
CRIMINAL,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEW YORK,
New York City,
NEWSLETTER,
Red-Light Cameras,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Speed Cameras,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FIGHTING,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CAMERA By T.A. Beckett, NMA Arkansas Member Editor’s Note: Mr. Beckett is not an attorney but his mother was a trial lawyer in the New York City area who also taught legal writing and courtroom practice at Hofstra University. He notes that from age 16 until the time he graduated college, he spent time watching her […]
August 27, 2017 • CIVIL,
CRIMINAL,
DUE PROCESS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
TICKET FIGHTING,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE Whose side are we on anyway? The NMA objects when cities lower the traffic court bar, downgrading routine moving violations from criminal to civil offenses while also issuing lesser fines and eliminating points against defendant driving records. Again, why would we do that? To answer those questions, look no further than the example of jurisprudence […]
