April 2, 2023 • Automated Camera Tickets,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Bicycle,
Bicyclist,
Complete Streets,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
ITE,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
NTSB,
Parking,
PEDESTRIAN,
RACIAL PROFILING,
RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED,
Road Diets,
SPEED LIMIT,
speed limits,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FINES,
USDOT,
War on Cars By Jay Beeber, Director of Policy & Research, National Motorists Association If there was any doubt before, now we have a clear indication that the WAR ON CARS is real –and it’s being waged at the highest levels of society by authoritarian culture warriors. These tyrannical elitists seek to eliminate our freedom to travel where […]
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, […]
September 25, 2022 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LETTER WRITING,
NEWSLETTER,
Road Rage,
SAFETY,
Speed Humps,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEEDING,
TICKET REVENUE,
VISION ZERO We had varied responses to the September 11th NMA E-Newsletter #713 on the new community speed watch program (Read Here), in Green Bay, WI. We appreciate any comments that are sent to the NMA and please feel free to email us anytime at nma@motorists.org. ___________ Community snitching is a slippery slope to something that starts […]
August 7, 2022 • Automated Traffic Enforcement,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
Parking,
Parking Meters,
PPP,
Public Private Partnership,
Red-Light Cameras,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Speed Cameras,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology,
TICKET REVENUE,
TOLL ROAD,
Traffic Tickets,
VISION ZERO As of 2022, 61 years are left on the 75-year parking meter lease now held by the Chicago Parking Meters LLC. A recent city audit stated that the private company had already recouped its entire $1.16 billion investment plus $502.5 million more. According to a recent Chicago Sun-Times article, Chicago parking meter revenue is back […]
By Stewart Price, NMA Programs Officer All of us are gradually going deaf. The world is getting louder save for the isolationists that have gone off the grid. Could that prompt Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and law enforcement to make sirens louder? Should flashing lights burn brighter and more intensely to capture our attention? For […]
