July 17, 2022 • CELL PHONE,
Drone,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Facial Recognition,
Fuel Tax,
Gas Tax,
LANE COURTESY,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
Photo Enforcement,
Red-Light Cameras,
School Bus Stop Arm Cameras,
Speed Cameras,
SPEED LIMIT,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Tickets The January through June legislative activity at the state and national levels is complete. It is worth reviewing a report card of bills resolved during the period, motorist-related legislation that we followed. Overall, 38 bills that the NMA supported or opposed met the fate we desired as opposed to 21 that went against our wishes. […]
June 5, 2022 • DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
ITE,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
Road Safety,
Safe Streets,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEEDING,
Traffic Fatalities,
VISION ZERO,
VMT Recently, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued its estimate of 2021 U.S. traffic fatalities. A Reuters headline blared, “U.S. traffic fatalities surge 10.5% in 2021 to highest count since 2005,” followed by the lede, “Traffic deaths surged after coronavirus lockdowns ended in 2020 as more drivers engaged in unsafe behavior like speeding and […]
May 29, 2022 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
RADAR,
RADAR DETECTOR,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED LIMIT,
speed limits,
SPEED TRAP,
speed traps,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Enforcement,
Traffic Tickets Reason.com recently published a list of eleven U.S. towns where their police forces were either disbanded or their autonomy as a governmental entity was dissolved because of an addiction to, and dependence on, ticket revenue. We thought it would be informative to present excerpts from Reason’s article for those cities along with select driver-sourced comments […]
May 22, 2022 • ALABAMA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
ILLEGAL SEARCH,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
OHIO,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEED TRAP,
speed traps,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Enforcement,
Traffic Tickets Reason.com recently published a list of eleven U.S. towns where their police forces were either disbanded or their autonomy as a governmental entity was dissolved because of an addiction to, and dependence on, ticket revenue. We thought it would be informative to present excerpts from Reason’s article for those cities along with select driver-sourced comments […]
By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist An email claimed that a speed limit reduction in Portland, Oregon “resulted in lower observed vehicle speeds and fewer vehicles traveling at higher speeds.” I was suspicious because it is well known that speed limits and speed limit signs do not have a strong effect on traffic speed. My […]
