The warning signs have been around for a long time. The scramble to fall in line with Vision Zero demands that traffic fatalities be eliminated regardless of the cost to taxpayers, and society in general, has even affected organizations like the Institute of Transportation Engineers that are supposed to be protecting the engineering standards that […]
July 26, 2020 • Bicyclist,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOIA,
INSURANCE,
NEWSLETTER,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
PUBLIC RECORDS,
RACIAL PROFILING,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
speed limits,
SPEED TRAP,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Safety,
Traffic stops,
Traffic Tickets By a Michigan NMA Member On July 6, an electronic billboard appeared along I-96 in Redford Township, Michigan, just east of the city limits of Livonia. It warned drivers leaving Detroit, “Driving while black? Racial profiling just ahead. Welcome to Livonia.” Livonia is a racially-mixed city of 97,000, covering 36 square miles of 1950s homes […]
Some years ago, the NMA developed “7 Sensible Signals, A guide to better driver-to-driver communications.” Among the signals were the universal thumbs up, or A-OK sign as an indication of appreciation: It is difficult to mistake the intent of that acknowledgment. Another sensible signal, still in use today, has often created law enforcement animosity: We […]
February 9, 2020 • Bicyclist,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
PEDESTRIAN,
Red-Light Camera,
Road Diet,
Road Safety,
Speed Cameras,
speed limits,
TRAFFIC CALMING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
Traffic Safety,
VISION ZERO By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director, and writer of the Keep the US Moving Blog. When did traffic safety become the purview of Big Bike and Vision Zero? In my experience, many motorists are hybrids: motorist/pedestrian, motorist/bicyclist, etc. The collective “We” are absolutely concerned about traffic safety. But why does it then feel like it […]
Amidst the national movement by transportation planners and Vision Zero proponents to restrict driving, true believers who have never seen a car or motorist they like–speed kills, you know–we occasionally stumble upon remnants of a saner world. Those moments of clarity are probably more common than you might think if you follow the media headlines. […]
