By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared as the cover story in the Winter 2022 Edition of the National Motorists Association’s quarterly magazine Driving Freedoms. If you would like to receive our magazine, please become a member of the NMA today! The City of Brotherly Love seems anything but when […]
158 Blog Posts From the LEGISLATION Tag
What’s Up with Philly?
March 11, 2022 • 0 Comments • CAF, CIVIL, Civil Asset Forfeiture, Congestion Pricing, Corruption, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, INSURANCE, LEGISLATION, LICENSE PLATE, Mass Transit, Parking, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, SPEEDING, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET REVENUE, TOLL, TOLLING, traffic safety, TRAFFIC STOP, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO
Become the Tracker, not the Tracked: NMA E-Newsletter #684
February 21, 2022 • 0 Comments • Driver Courtesy, HOV, LEGISLATION, NMA, Red-Light Cameras, School Bus Cameras, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, TOLLING, VISION ZERO
Legislation is commonly used to codify public policy, whether good, bad, or indifferent. Perhaps more than you might expect, bills introduced in the U.S. Congress and state legislatures can have undue influence on how we drive, where we drive, and what controls are in place to punish offenders. We developed the NMA Bill/Regulation Tracker (Tracker) […]
The USDOT, Speed Cameras, and Automated Corruption: NMA E-Newsletter #683
February 14, 2022 • 0 Comments • Automated Camera Tickets, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Corruption, Driver's License, LEGISLATION, red-light camera, REVENUE GENERATION, road safety, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, Traffic Tickets
It didn’t take long after Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Transportation Secretary, introduced his department’s 42-page National Roadway Safety Strategy for people to grasp the importance of a tiny sentence buried in Note 3 on Page 28 of the report: “Promote speed safety cameras as a proven safety countermeasure.” Protestations emanated from as far away as the […]
And So It Begins—Vision Zero from the Top Down: NMA E-Newsletter #682
February 7, 2022 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Corruption, CROSSWALK, DMV, FHWA, Infrastructure, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, MUTCD, NHTSA, NMA, NSC, PEDESTRIAN, REVENUE GENERATION, road safety, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, Street Lights, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, VISION ZERO
US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently announced that his department wants to drastically reduce deadly traffic accidents through vehicle and street design changes. The USDOT also plans to use $14 billion in funding from the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill to encourage the states to make extensive use of speed cameras to enforce lowered […]
More Speed Cameras, Lower Speed Limits, More Surveillance
February 6, 2022 • 0 Comments • Bicyclist, Infrastructure, INSURANCE, LEGISLATION, MUTCD, PEDESTRIAN, PRIVACY, REVENUE GENERATION, road safety, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, surveillance, TICKET CAMERA, Traffic Tickets
By Lauren Fix, Car Coach Reports Does the infrastructure bill have another hidden surveillance initiative? Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg uses the infrastructure spending plan to promote speed cameras nationwide! The DOT has received $6 billion to issue grants to help cities and towns with road safety due to the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that Congress passed. […]
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