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 […]
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 […]
By James J. Baxter, NMA President Emeritus Editor’s Note: We’re going to play a little game: Can you guess when Jim wrote this newsletter with its references to government entities increasing ticket penalties, the ramping up of enforcement campaigns, and pronouncements of motorized traffic being responsible for all that is wrong in the world? It […]
August 6, 2017 • DRIVER EDUCATION,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
MUTCD,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NTSB,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEEDING,
TICKET REVENUE by Gary Biller, NMA President Why does the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) want to change its goal of providing legitimate highway safety research into an advocacy of ever-present, for-profit enforcement aimed primarily at safe drivers who are endangering no one? In a sweeping set of recommendations from its July 25, 2017 public meeting, the […]
July 30, 2017 • CALIFORNIA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
ILLEGAL SEARCH,
MONTANA,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
RACIAL PROFILING,
REVENUE GENERATION,
RHODE ISLAND,
TEXAS,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC STOP From guest writer Joe Cadillic who writes the MassPrivatel Blog According to The Stanford Open Policing Project which looked at over 100 million police traffic stops in the United States, “Police pull over more than 50,000 drivers on a typical day, more than 20 million motorists every year.” Does that mean 50,000 people are breaking […]
