The Fall 2018 issue of the NMA member magazine Driving Freedoms (“The Big Lie”) sounded a clarion call against the dismantling of established traffic engineering standards by the very agencies tasked with upholding those standards and protecting the public. Swept up in the Vision Zero dream of achieving zero road fatalities, the Federal Highway Administration […]
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The 85th Call to Action (Time Sensitive): NMA E-Newsletter #517
December 10, 2018 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, FHWA, ITE, LETTER WRITING, NCUTCD, NMSL, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, Technology, VISION ZERO, VMT
Forced Slow Down: Road Diet Vocabulary for Neophytes
November 9, 2018 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, FHWA, Road Diets, SAFETY, Speed Bumps, Speed Cameras, Traffic Calming, VISION ZERO
This article first appeared in Driving Freedoms Fall 2018. Changing speed limits is not the only way cities try to slow down traffic. Around the country, motorists face numerous obstacles that attempt to restrict traffic flow even beyond the street’s stated speed limit. According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), a classic road diet is […]
How Safe are Roadside Guardrails?
A piece of street furniture we see all the time on the road, the guardrail stands constant guard over us as we hurtle down roads and across bridges. They prevent vehicles from hitting roadside obstacles such as signs, culvert inlets and natural outcroppings that appear too close to the road such as trees or rock […]
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