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NMA E-Newsletter #322: Vision Zero—An Unrealistic, Cynical Vision

March 15, 2015 • CALIFORNIA, DRIVER RESPONSIBILITY, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEW YORK, NEWSLETTER, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SPEED CAMERA, SPEED LIMIT, VISION ZERO, VMT

Vision Zero came to America last year with the election of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who campaigned on the promise to eliminate all traffic fatalities in the five boroughs within 10 years. His program for doing so, known as Vision Zero, relies on the usual complement of command-and-control traffic safety interventions, such as: […]

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NMA E-Newsletter #321: Radar Fails Under Scientific Scrutiny … Again

March 8, 2015 • CIVIL, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FOURTH AMENDMENT, ILLEGAL SEARCH, NEWSLETTER, RADAR, REVENUE GENERATION, SPEED LIMIT, Technology, TICKET FIGHTING, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC STOP

Most longtime NMA members understand the weaknesses of using radar to measure vehicle speeds. However, less experienced drivers and even the courts regard radar as foolproof. Nothing could be further from the truth, and we have fresh evidence that further erodes radar’s patina of infallibility. A member of the NMA Board recently attended a meeting […]

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NMA E-Newsletter #306: The Public Records Request

November 23, 2014 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FOIA, IDAHO, NEWSLETTER, PUBLIC RECORDS, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT

One of the most effective ways for a NMA member to go on the offensive is to issue a public records request. Governmental transparency is a wonderful concept but it remains just a concept unless the citizenry actively exercises the right to probe the policies and actions of public agencies. There are many reasons to […]

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NMA E-Newsletter: #304: Wiping Out While Riding the Wave of “Smart Growth”

November 9, 2014 • CALIFORNIA, COMMUNITY, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, VISION ZERO

Editor’s Note: In a recent e-newsletter we discussed how planners want to remake the urban landscape to discourage automobile travel. But as often happens with such schemes, the law of unintended consequences comes to bear. This is what happened in in Long Beach, California, as described in this first-hand account by a California NMA member. […]

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NMA E-Newsletter #303: Masking an Agenda

November 2, 2014 • 85TH PERCENTILE, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, IDAHO, NEWSLETTER, PUBLIC RECORDS, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT

We admit it. We are cynics when it comes to AAA’s motives. Exhibit A: #288, A Horse of a Different Color which we issued shortly after AAA Idaho publicly pressured the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) to hold off from raising the speed limit from 75 to 80 mph on specific stretches of Interstates 15, 84, […]

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