April 26, 2020 • Complete Streets,
DETER Act,
Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Gas Tax,
infrastructure,
LEGISLATION,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
SAFETY,
TICKET QUOTA,
VISION ZERO,
VMT,
VMT Tax By Rob Talley Editor’s Note: The Washington Report is a regular feature of the NMA’s quarterly Driving Freedoms member magazine. Our representative in DC, Rob Talley, wrote the original version of this newsletter for the spring issue of the magazine before the pandemic halted its publication. So Rob recently updated his dispatch to include more […]
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 […]
Amidst the national movement by transportation planners and Vision Zero proponents to restrict driving, true believers who have never seen a car or motorist they like–speed kills, you know–we occasionally stumble upon remnants of a saner world. Those moments of clarity are probably more common than you might think if you follow the media headlines. […]
We recently updated and republished a popular post, Do Vision Zero Programs Equal More Traffic Accidents?, on the NMA Blog. The article points to several examples of cities where pedestrian/bicyclist accident and fatalities rates have not improved, and in many instances have increased, after expensive Vision Zero programs have been implemented. Such programs have the […]
January 5, 2020 • Bicycle,
Bicyclist,
Complete Streets,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PEDESTRIAN,
Road Diet,
SAFETY,
VISION ZERO The Complete Streets Act of 2019, U.S. House Bill 3663, is creating a lot of rhetorical questions on our part. In NMA E-Newsletter #552, the title question was “An Appropriate Balance for Whom?” in response to the bill’s declaration that the needs of walkers and bike riders must be accommodated before those of drivers on […]
