So This is What Complete Streets Comes Down To?: NMA E-Newsletter #573

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 […]

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Ticket Quotas are Alive and All Too Well: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #572

December 29, 2019 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, NHTSA, NMA, REVENUE GENERATION, SPEED TRAP, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets

By our latest count, twenty states have explicit laws banning traffic ticket quotas. And yet, the practice continues, even within some of those states. City, county, and state budgets must be met, and a reliable target for revenue continues to be the motorist. A brief rundown of the states with quota prohibitions follows but first, […]

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The Slow March toward Forced Temperance: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #571

December 22, 2019 • DADSS, DISTRACTED DRIVING, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE, LEGISLATION, NEWSLETTER, NMA, PRIVACY, Road Safety, Technology

It’s been seven years since we wrote about the Driver Alcohol Detection System and Safety (DADSS) program–A Frog in the Pot, E-newsletter #187–and efforts to make ignition interlock devices standard equipment in all vehicles. Proponents of forcing all drivers to pass alcohol detection testing before being able to operate their cars are nothing if not […]

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Illinois House Bill 3937 – Motor Fuel-Rate Reduction

December 20, 2019 • bill tracker
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Massachusetts H 2984 – Protecting children boarding school buses

December 19, 2019 • bill tracker
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