June 28, 2020 • Automated Traffic Enforcement,
civil asset forfeiture,
Congestion Pricing,
Connected Cars,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
Gas Tax,
infrastructure,
Infrastructure Funding,
LEGISLATION,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEWSLETTER,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road Usage Charge,
TICKET QUOTA,
TOLL,
Toll Roads,
TOLLING,
tolls,
TRAFFIC STOP,
VMT,
VMT Tax The need to advocate for motorists’ rights has grown during the time of COVID. NMA members need to be more vigilant than ever in their home communities and states. This newsletter is a reflection of what we see trending nationally. Last week in Part 1, we looked into our crystal ball at speed limits, automated […]
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. […]
May 31, 2020 • CHECKPOINT,
civil asset forfeiture,
CIVIL FORFEITURE,
DUE PROCESS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
REVENUE GENERATION,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic stops,
Traffic Tickets There are many forms of legitimized stealing. The government has perfected a near-perfect version, with motorists too often serving as easy prey. The NMA’s legislative focus in Washington, even when lawmakers are advancing little during these pandemic times, continues to be two areas of policing-for-profit that desperately need reform. One practice ─ as if it […]
May 17, 2020 • ARKANSAS,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GEORGIA,
LOUISIANA,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
OKLAHOMA,
Parking Tickets,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED TRAP,
TEXAS,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Tickets Editor’s Note: This article was initially written for the Spring edition of Driving Freedoms magazine. The information here pertained primarily to life before the COVID-19 crisis. Still, we believe traffic fines and fees will be even more of an issue for small towns (and big cities) everywhere due to shortfalls in the budgets that have […]
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 […]
