44 Alerts From the Traffic Tickets Tag

Low-Level Traffic Fines: A Slippery Slope to Civil Court: NMA E-Newsletter #730

January 8, 2023 • CIVIL, CRIMINAL, Discovery, DMV, Driver's License, DUE PROCESS, DUI, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, LEGISLATION, NEVADA, NEWSLETTER, NMA, OREGON, TICKET FIGHTING, TICKET FINES, Traffic Tickets

On January 1st, Nevada became the latest state to remove the threat of a criminal charge for motorists who can’t pay fines for minor traffic violations. The new law has downgraded these minor infractions from criminal misdemeanors to civil violations with civil penalties. This change only applies to low-level traffic tickets, not to tickets like reckless […]

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Taking the Politics Out of Speed Limit Setting—a Member Responds: NMA Newsletter #729

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, […]

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Recent Chicago Parking Audit Spells Bad News for Motorists (and Every Other Resident): NMA E-Newsletter #708

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 […]

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NMA Legislative Roundup – January-June, 2022: NMA E-Newsletter #705

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. […]

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Speed Trap Karma Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #698

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 […]

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