June 21, 2020 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
ACLU,
ALPR,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Biometrics,
CELL PHONE,
Contact Tracing,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
DMV,
Drone,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Facial Recognition,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
NMSL,
PRIVACY,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Ridesharing,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
Street Surveillance,
Technology,
TICKET REVENUE,
VISION ZERO The need to advocate for motorists’ rights has grown during the time of COVID. NMA members need to be more vigilant than ever in home communities and home states. This newsletter is a two-parter and comes from what we see trending nationally. This week, we look at speed limits, automated traffic enforcement, and street surveillance. […]
Let’s have some fun with this. We’re going to quote the opening, middle, and closing paragraphs of a traffic engineering paper, and you guess what year it was published. In fact, let’s simplify that further: In which era was the paper published? Pre 55 mph National Maximum Speed Limit (before 1974) During the NMSL restriction […]
April 14, 2019 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FARS,
IIHS,
INSURANCE,
Insurance Company,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMSL,
SPEED LIMIT,
Traffic Tickets By Gary Biller, NMA President Every two or three years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) splashes the media with a recycled report of how many deaths have occurred due to raised speed limits. And reporters dutifully echo it as gospel because sensational headlines like, “Speed limit increases are tied to 37,000 deaths over […]
January 20, 2019 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
ALPR,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
infrastructure,
INSURANCE,
Motorcycle,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
NMSL,
Red-Light Camera,
SAFETY,
Scooter,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology,
TRAFFIC CALMING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
Traffic Tickets In NMA E-Newsletter #520, The Next Ten Years, Jim Walker, Gary Biller, and Steve Carrellas provided their thoughts — limited by the NMA to less than 300 words — on the significant challenges that motorists and the NMA will face over the next decade. We asked readers to chime in with their thoughts and published […]
December 9, 2018 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
ITE,
LETTER WRITING,
NCUTCD,
NEWSLETTER,
NMSL,
NTSB,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology,
VISION ZERO,
VMT The Fall 2018 issue of the NMA member magazine Driving Freedoms (“The Big Lie”) sounded a clarion call against the dismantling of established traffic engineering standards by the very agencies tasked with upholding those standards and protecting the public. Swept up in the Vision Zero dream of achieving zero road fatalities, the Federal Highway Administration […]
