8 Alerts From the NMA BLOG Tag

International Anti-Car Nonsense: NMA E-Newsletter #576

January 26, 2020 • Bicyclist, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, NMA, NMA BLOG, PEDESTRIAN, Road Safety, VISION ZERO

We recently updated and republished a popular post, Do Vision Zero Programs Equal More Traffic Accidents?, on the NMA Blog. The article points to several examples of cities where pedestrian/bicyclist accident and fatalities rates have not improved, and in many instances have increased, after expensive Vision Zero programs have been implemented. Such programs have the […]

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PPP Myth Busters: NMA E-Newsletter #375

March 20, 2016 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, NMA BLOG, Parking, PPP, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, TOLL, TOLL ROAD, TOLLING

Back in 2012 Texas State Highway 130, a 41-mile stretch of toll road between Austin and San Antonio, made headlines for posting the highest speed limit in the country—a whopping 85 mph. Today, SH 130 is making headlines for a different reason. The company that runs it just declared bankruptcy. Even with the high speed […]

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NMA E-Newsletter #246: Silence is no Longer Golden

September 29, 2013 • CRIMINAL, Driver's License, DUE PROCESS, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, INSURANCE, Kentucky, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, MIRANDA WARNING, NEWSLETTER, NMA BLOG, TEXAS

By Ted Levitt, NMA Member Several years ago the NMA published an article I wrote about “Your Right to Remain Silent”. Since then several U.S. Supreme Court rulings have greatly eroded that right. Remaining silent is no longer the right thing to do, in my opinion. Here’s why. In 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that […]

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NMA E-Newsletter #241: The NMA’s National Speed Trap Exchange

August 27, 2013 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, NMA BLOG, SPEED TRAP

The NMA’s venerable National Speed Trap Exchange has been given a dramatic facelift. From its inception in 2000, the Exchange at www.speedtrap.org has been a popular online destination for highway travelers.  Over these past 13 years, motorists have reported over 80,000 speed trap locations with descriptive information that help fellow drivers understand the cat-and-mouse tactics […]

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NMA E-Newsletter #224: Justified—or Not

April 29, 2013 • CONNECTICUT, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, ILLINOIS, MASSACHUSETTS, NEWSLETTER, NMA BLOG, SPEED LIMIT

Public officials often use traffic engineering reports to justify policies motivated more by political expediency than by concern for public safety. In a recent three-part series for the NMA Blog (linked below), NMA Massachusetts Activist John Carr analyzes how misguided priorities result in deficient, misleading and inaccurate reports—reports that lead to poor traffic engineering and […]

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