How much are you willing to spend on a car to avoid spending money on gas? This is a question that rarely gets asked whenever the subject of plug-in hybrids (and electric cars) comes up but ought to be asked and answered by anyone considering buying either. Plug-ins such as the Ford Fusion Energi hybrid […]
Problem Solved: Ban Cars
August 30, 2019 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Bicyclist, DUI/DWI, Lane Courtesy, NMA, Red-Light Cameras, Speed Limits, VISION ZERO
This post first appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #516 in December 2018. Randy LoBasso, policy manager at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, loves to hate the National Motorists Association. We are often the bogeyman he uses as a counterpoint to his pro-bicyclist, Vision Zero, anti-car rhetoric. For instance: “Let’s understand what the National Motorists Association […]
Eating and Driving: How Much Do Those French Fries Really Cost?
Everyone knows the dangers of texting and driving. And as new laws are being passed across the nation to prevent the use of handheld devices behind the wheel, another cause of distracted driving is not being addressed. And since 18% of all crashes are caused by distracted driving, every cause of this dangerous habit must […]
The Car That Almost Was
In the department of What Might Have Been, we find a car almost no one who isn’t a car industry insider has ever heard of — but which very nearly was. You haven’t heard of it for good reason. Well, good reason from the point of view of other insiders—the ones inside the government. It is a car […]
Law Enforcement is Using License Plate Readers to “Grid” Entire Neighborhoods: NMA E-Newsletter #554
By guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog What does gridding mean? The Arizona Mirror recently described it this way: “As part of the training for the ALPR (automated license plate readers) systems, Chandler police officers are taught to “grid” neighborhoods during their downtime – systematically driving up and down every street in an area, indiscriminately […]
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