Eric Berg loves his Porsches. Not for others to stare at and admire, but to use the machine for which it was designed: racing. The following is the NMA director’s photo essay of taking his 911 out for several spins at a race track in Alabama. We’ll let Eric set the stage: “Rezoom is a […]
November 24, 2019 • Bicycle,
Commuters,
Congestion Pricing,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PEDESTRIAN,
SPEED LIMIT,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION One of the exciting elements of the October 5 Keep the US Moving Conference (KLAM) attended by both Gary Biller, NMA President and Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director, was meeting others who study urban commuting. Mariya Frost, Transportation Policy Analyst for the Washington (State) Policy Center, a free market think tank, was one such person. […]
November 17, 2019 • ACLU,
ALPR,
BLACK BOX,
EDR,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
EVENT DATA RECORDER,
FLORIDA,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
GEORGIA,
ILLEGAL SEARCH,
LICENSE PLATE,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PRIVACY Two motorists recently won Fourth Amendment decisions. Both cases will likely be appealed, and will have major privacy rights implications for how and where we drive our vehicles. ALPRs in Florida Raul Mas Canosa was mad and decided he wasn’t going to take it anymore. The city where he lives, Coral Gables, Florida, tracked his […]
By Gary Biller, NMA President On a recent trip to Sacramento to walk the halls of the state capitol with Jay Beeber and engage legislative staffers on why an arbitrary lowering of speed limits in the name of Vision Zero is a colossally bad idea, I had the opportunity to have a nice dinner with […]
November 3, 2019 • Bicycle,
Bicyclist,
Complete Streets,
Congestion Pricing,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
ITE,
LEGISLATION,
MASS TRANSIT,
NEWSLETTER,
Parking,
PEDESTRIAN,
SAFETY,
Scooter,
TOLL,
VISION ZERO Last week in Part 1, we shared some posts made on the Institute of Transportation Engineers Member Forum that started a debate about the efficacy of the Vision Zero goals. The discussion in that thread — “A ‘War on Cars’? Let there be Peace!” — was too varied and interesting to fit into the contents […]
