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 […]
October 20, 2019 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
BAC,
Bicycle,
Complete Streets,
Congestion Pricing,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
HAWAII,
ILLINOIS,
ITE,
LEGISLATION,
MOVE OVER LAW,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
NMA Foundation,
NORTH CAROLINA,
OREGON,
PEDESTRIAN,
RADAR,
Road Diets,
SAFETY,
Scooter,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEED TRAP,
TICKET CAMERA,
TRAFFIC CALMING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
VISION ZERO,
YELLOW LIGHT,
YELLOW LIGHT TIMING July, August, and September were not nearly as active in resolving NMA-tracked legislation as in the second quarter, but October began with some very important events that will have positive ramifications for motorists well into the future. Let’s start with the final disposition of bills in the third quarter: Bills Opposed by the NMA […]
September 29, 2019 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
Bicycle,
Bicyclist,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
Road Diets,
SAFETY,
Speed Cameras,
SPEED LIMIT,
TRAFFIC CALMING,
Traffic Safety,
VISION ZERO Many cities and states around the country have adopted a Vision Zero program which strives for zero traffic deaths, usually by a specific year. Some of the oldest programs, though, are finding that the ideal of zero traffic deaths is becoming ever more elusive and expensive over time. Instead of decreasing, traffic deaths involving accidents […]
January 20, 2019 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
ALPR,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
infrastructure,
INSURANCE,
Motorcycle,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
NMSL,
Red-Light Camera,
SAFETY,
Scooter,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology,
TRAFFIC CALMING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
Traffic Tickets In NMA E-Newsletter #520, The Next Ten Years, Jim Walker, Gary Biller, and Steve Carrellas provided their thoughts — limited by the NMA to less than 300 words — on the significant challenges that motorists and the NMA will face over the next decade. We asked readers to chime in with their thoughts and published […]
A seismic shift appears to be underway with regards to how experts view transportation. The new vocabulary includes words like multimodal and person-level transportation. Transportation experts want to move “people” instead of cars because most cars on the road today are single occupant vehicles or SOVs—not an efficient enough form of transportation apparently. Aren’t motorists […]
