April 30, 2023 • Automated Camera Tickets,
Automated Ticket Enforcement,
Bus Lane Cameras,
CIVIL,
DUE PROCESS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
Photo Enforcement,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SCHOOL BUS CAMERA,
SPEED CAMERA,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET REVENUE By Jay Beeber, Director of Policy & Research For the past few years, we’ve been monitoring a concerning trend in traffic enforcement: a steady shift towards more and more automated ticketing. Unfortunately, this trend appears to be gaining momentum. In California, we’ve witnessed a surge of bills introduced that attempt to authorize various forms of […]
January 1, 2023 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
MUTCD,
NEWSLETTER,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
speed limits,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Tickets By Don Bain, NMA Oregon Member Editor’s Note: Don submitted these comments to the NMA National Office in response to Newsletter #724 Taking the Politics Out of Speed Limit Setting. While sound from an engineering perspective, there’s an inherent challenge with speed surveys and the 85% percentile speed point: establishing and documenting what “free-flowing conditions” are, […]
December 25, 2022 • Bicyclist,
DRIVER EDUCATION,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
PEDESTRIAN,
Road Safety,
SAFETY,
SOCIAL NETWORKING,
Speed Bumps,
Speed Humps,
speed limiters,
speed limits UK research found that cutting speed limits on urban roads does not significantly improve safety. The likely reason—motorists will drive the speed limit they feel most comfortable with based on road design, weather conditions, and traffic. Belfast officials changed the speed limits to 20 mph on 76 roads in 2016. Researchers analyzed data from before […]
October 16, 2022 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FMCSA,
GPS,
ISA,
LANE COURTESY,
NEWSLETTER,
NTSB,
OOIDA,
SAFETY,
speed limiters,
speed limits,
Technology,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION During driver’s ed class, many of us drove lesson cars with speed governors. Newbies needed them so they wouldn’t endanger themselves or their trainer by accidentally hitting the gas instead of the brakes. But no one ever imagined speed governors (now called limiters) would become standard equipment on a car, especially when driving requires situational […]
By guest writer Eric Peters In several objective ways, new cars are less “safe” than cars built decades ago. A strong statement. One that probably seems ridiculous, too, given all the “safety” features new cars have that old cars did not, and the fact that new vehicles must pass a battery of crash tests before […]
