February 6, 2022 • Bicycle,
Bicyclist,
Complete Streets,
Corruption,
CROSSWALK,
DMV,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
infrastructure,
LEGISLATION,
MASS TRANSIT,
MUTCD,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NSC,
PEDESTRIAN,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road Safety,
SAFETY,
Speed Cameras,
speed limits,
Street Lights,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
VISION ZERO US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently announced that his department wants to drastically reduce deadly traffic accidents through vehicle and street design changes. The USDOT also plans to use $14 billion in funding from the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill to encourage the states to make extensive use of speed cameras to enforce lowered […]
October 31, 2021 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LOS ANGELES,
NEWSLETTER,
Parking,
Parking Tickets,
REVENUE GENERATION,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Tickets Care to hazard a guess on how much money the city of Los Angeles has raked in from traffic and parking enforcement during their last five fiscal years, which end each June 30th? If your estimate is more than half a billion dollars, you are getting warm. During those five years, Los Angeles collected more […]
September 19, 2021 • Congestion Pricing,
Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
Gas Tax,
GPS,
GPS TRACKING,
infrastructure,
Infrastructure Funding,
LEGISLATION,
Motorcycle,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PRIVACY,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road User Charge,
TOLLING,
tolls,
VMT,
VMT Tax,
WHEEL TAX Layered levels of taxation are nothing new to motorists. The gas tax, road tolls, congestion pricing, registration fees, and even wheel taxes are commonplace. Congress is looking at us hungrily again as being ripe for the picking as it debates the final details of desperately needed transportation infrastructure funding. The idea is not new. In […]
September 12, 2021 • Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Corruption,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
infrastructure,
Infrastructure Funding,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
Red-Light Camera,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road User Charge,
SAFETY,
SCHOOL BUS,
School Bus Cameras,
School Bus Stop Arm Cameras,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Tickets,
VISION ZERO The sausage-making is in full swing as opposing parties in Washington wrestle the Senate’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and the House’s $3.5 trillion version to the ground. In Infrastructure Urgency, Part 1, NMA E-Newsletter #659, we shared the first two in a series of NMA emails directed to members of the Transportation & Infrastructure […]
Editor’s Note: The following content, reprinted in three parts over this and the previous two NMA e-newsletters, is presented with permission from Randal O’Toole’s The Antiplanner, a blog whose tagline describes its point of view: “Dedicated to the sunset of government planning.” O’Toole is a senior fellow with the Cato Institute who specializes in land-use and […]
