By James Baxter, NMA President The Bush administration just released another version of their plan to shift responsibility for highway funding to the “users.” This isn’t a bad idea, except that’s exactly the situation that has largely existed for most of the last century and all of the current century. The users, namely motorists and […]
How To Give Out 178,000 Traffic Tickets And Accomplish Nothing
Just ask Montgomery County, Maryland, they seem to have it figured out. The Washington Examiner had a story today that mentioned that Montgomery County speed cameras, in action for nine months now, were averaging 20,000 tickets per month and that, in total, the county had handed out 178,000 speeding tickets from the cameras. The story […]
The Effect Of A National Speed Limit On Traffic Safety & Fuel Prices
By James Baxter, NMA President In 1982 Congress authorized the National Academy of Science to do a study that documented the “benefits” of the 55 MPH National Maximum Speed Limit (NMSL). I, as the President of the organization most critical of the national speed limit, was considered as a potential member of the advisory panel […]
4 Good Things About $4 Per Gallon Gas
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist There’s a bright side to almost everything, right? Even $4 per gallon fuel. If that seems like a stretch as you fork over another $80 to fill up your car, consider the bright side: 1) There’s less traffic out there If you can still afford to drive, the drive’s less […]
Police Officer Gives Himself $21,000 Raise Using Stop Sign Tickets
A recent article by John Stossel examined a Michigan police officer’s penchant for giving out stop sign tickets as a means of increasing his income. Day after day in Warren, Mich., people wait in a long line to pay traffic fines. Many are there because police say they didn’t come to a full stop at […]
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