February 13, 2022 • Automated Camera Tickets,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Corruption,
Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
Red-Light Camera,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road Safety,
SAFETY,
Speed Cameras,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
Traffic Tickets It didn’t take long after Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Transportation Secretary, introduced his department’s 42-page National Roadway Safety Strategy for people to grasp the importance of a tiny sentence buried in Note 3 on Page 28 of the report: “Promote speed safety cameras as a proven safety countermeasure.” Protestations emanated from as far away as the […]
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 […]
November 28, 2021 • AUTO INDUSTRY,
Bicycle,
Bicyclist,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GAO,
INSURANCE,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
PEDESTRIAN,
Road Safety,
ROUNDABOUT,
SAFETY,
Speed,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
Traffic Safety,
VISION ZERO By Randal O’Toole, The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: The NMA has received permission to post this report on recent findings on traffic safety in the US. Read Parts 1 and Part 2 for more information. Data-Driven Safety Such data-driven analyses play almost no role in urban traffic safety programs today. For example, Vision Zero is based on […]
April 25, 2021 • Bicyclist,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
MUTCD,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PEDESTRIAN,
Road Safety,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
Stop Signs,
TRAFFIC SIGNAL Member response to the NMA’s April 13th email alert and last week’s newsletter, All Hands on Deck, #640, has been tremendous. This grassroots campaign is focused on convincing the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) that key components of its planned update to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) will make the roads less, not […]
In Equity and Sustainability, NMA E-Newsletter #637, we noted the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) introduction of a proposed federal rule that would constitute the first major revision of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) since 2009. Major is putting it lightly, and lightly is not how we can afford to treat it. The […]
