65 Alerts From the VISION ZERO Tag

The Big Lie: NMA E-Newsletter #371

February 21, 2016 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, SAFETY, VISION ZERO

Those who would ban us from our vehicles have become skillful manipulators of language and emotion. We were reminded of this after reading an op-ed in Philly.com by a former City of Philadelphia transportation official calling for more Vision Zero-style “safety” interventions in the City of Brotherly Love. In an article decrying how dangerous the […]

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Never Let a Serious Crisis go to Waste: NMA E-Newsletter #370

February 14, 2016 • BAC, Driver's License, DRIVERLESS CARS, DUI, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, RED LIGHT CAMERA, SAFETY, SEAT BELT, SPEED LIMIT, TICKET CAMERA, VISION ZERO, VMT

The headlines were predictable: “Huge spike in traffic deaths is largest since 1940s”, “Why Are America’s Traffic Deaths Rising So Fast?”, “Rise in traffic deaths last year raises alarm at NHTSA”, “NHTSA seeks new ways to boost safety.” They’re responding to news of a projected 9.3 percent jump in highway fatalities through the first nine […]

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If it Walks Like a Duck: NMA E-Newsletter #341

July 26, 2015 • COMMUNITY, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, NEWSLETTER, NORTH CAROLINA, SAFETY, VISION ZERO, WASHINGTON D.C.

Summer is the time when communities across the country conduct their annual crosswalk sting operations in which undercover police officers walk out into busy intersections hoping they won’t get run over. The purpose is to ticket passing drivers who fail to yield to, or stop for, the “pedestrian” in the crosswalk. Locally, the unlucky undercover […]

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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: #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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