By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director In my position as the NMA Communications Director, I skim or read hundreds of motoring news stories every day to bring you the news and to share trends and perspectives. Up until this week, I rarely ran across articles about checkpoints and roadblocks. The COVID-19 crisis is scary enough, […]
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Roadblocks and Checkpoints during the COVID-19 Crisis: Driving in America Blog for April 3, 2020
April 3, 2020 • 0 Comments • ACLU, FOURTH AMENDMENT, Fuel, Gas Tax, ILLEGAL SEARCH, LASER, NMA, Predatory Towing, RADAR, Real ID, road safety, Roadblocks, SAFETY, TOWING, traffic stops, YELLOW LIGHT, YELLOW LIGHT TIMING
Nothing as Permanent as a Temporary Solution—Driving in America: Arkansas Report Part 2
By NMA Member Tom Beckett Editor’s Note: This post is the second in at least a three-part on the complicated funding for roads in a mostly rural state. Check out Part 1 of the Arkansas Report. Back in 2012, Arkansas voters approved a half-cent sales tax increase to generate revenue dedicated to transportation. With this […]
Driving in America—Arkansas Report Part 1
February 7, 2020 • 2 Comment • Electric Vehicle, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, Infrastructure, LEGISLATION, REVENUE GENERATION, Toll Roads, Traffic Congestion
By NMA Member Tom Beckett This is the first of a series of occasional reports on the activity of the Arkansas legislature regarding highway transportation. I’ll cover not only various legislative acts but also other things of motorist interest that come to my attention here in the Natural State. To begin, an overview of how […]
Virginia Tax Relief—Right!
• January 28, 2020 • 0 Comments • Electric Vehicle, Eric Peters, Exhaust Sniffers, Fuel, Gas Tax, INSPECTION FEE, REVENUE GENERATION, Road User Charge, SAFETY, VMT, VMT Tax
Car dealers are amateurs when it comes to the bait-and-switch. The true masters of this art are politicians such as Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. He tantalizes empty-pocketed taxpayers whose pockets are empty, with lower taxes in exchange for higher ones. Of course, he doesn’t quite put it that way, much less explain what he’s up to, […]
Shenanigans Abound in the Washington State Ballot Initiative over Car Fees: NMA E-Newsletter #575
January 20, 2020 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Gas Tax, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, PEDESTRIAN, REVENUE GENERATION
Motorists are not cash cows, and it is time elected officials stop treating us as such! In Washington State, Tim Eyman decided he didn’t think it was fair for everyone in the state to pay for big city transit projects through ever increasing vehicle registration fees (or car tabs, as the locals call them). Anger […]
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