May 17, 2020 • ARKANSAS,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GEORGIA,
LOUISIANA,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
OKLAHOMA,
Parking Tickets,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED TRAP,
TEXAS,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Tickets Editor’s Note: This article was initially written for the Spring edition of Driving Freedoms magazine. The information here pertained primarily to life before the COVID-19 crisis. Still, we believe traffic fines and fees will be even more of an issue for small towns (and big cities) everywhere due to shortfalls in the budgets that have […]
By Gary Biller, NMA President The media has never shied away from peddling stories that sell. Often in doing so, the truth gets kicked to the curb or run over. Such is the case in the current lockdown climate where sensationalistic headlines scream that 100+ mph super speeders are taking advantage of less-crowded roads across […]
By Gary Biller, NMA President This is a controversial topic, even outside of these extraordinary times when most of the nation is confined to restricted movement as officials grapple with getting the coronavirus pandemic under control. With shelter-in-place edicts still in effect in most places, there is no doubt a lot of pent-up frustration. So […]
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 […]
Editor’s Note: Part 3 will be the final chapter for readers’ comments on our Newsletter #585. More than 40 readers emailed us their thoughts on roundabouts. We did a tally on how many believe in signaling or not signaling in roundabouts: 46 percent for signaling 32 percent opposed to signaling 22 percent who did not […]
