By: Greg Kuper, NMA Director of Communications Have you ever parked way out in the middle of an empty lot just to avoid the crowd only to return to your car and find someone parked right next to you? Same here. It’s irritating, baffling, and, unfortunately, far too frequent of an occurance. Now, if a […]
61 Blog Posts From the Parking Tag
Too Close for Comfort: Parking Lot Pet Peeves
June 16, 2025 • 0 Comments • Civility, Civility on the road, Courtesy, Greg Kuper, National Motorists Association, NMA, Parking, Parking courtesy, Parking lot, parking lot courtesy, Road Courtesy
NMA E-Newsletter #736: Your Freedom to Travel is Under Attack
April 3, 2023 • 0 Comments • Automated Camera Tickets, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, FHWA, ITE, Mass Transit, NMA, NTSB, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, racial profiling, RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED, Road Diets, SPEED LIMIT, Speed Limits, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, USDOT, War on Cars
By Jay Beeber, Director of Policy & Research, National Motorists Association If there was any doubt before, now we have a clear indication that the WAR ON CARS is real –and it’s being waged at the highest levels of society by authoritarian culture warriors. These tyrannical elitists seek to eliminate our freedom to travel where […]
War on Parking Just Got Real
December 30, 2022 • 0 Comments • CALIFORNIA, Congestion Pricing, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, Parking, tolls, Traffic Congestion
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA weekly E-Newsletter #717 in October 2022. Back in the 1960s: Joni Mitchell once sang: “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” But city planners who once were blamed for creating space for cars are now reversing direction. The new […]
Recent Chicago Parking Audit Spells Bad News for Motorists (and Every Other Resident)
November 18, 2022 • 0 Comments • Automated Traffic Enforcement, Parking, Parking Meters, PPP, Public Private Partnership, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, Speed Cameras, SPEED LIMIT, Technology, TICKET REVENUE, TOLL ROAD, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #708 from August 2022. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, a weekly one-topic look at a motorist issue, click here. As of 2022, 61 years are left on the 75-year parking meter lease now held by the Chicago Parking Meters […]
The Curse of Double Parking: NMA E-Newsletter #720
October 31, 2022 • 0 Comments • Automated Traffic Enforcement, Bicycle, Bicyclist, Double Parking, E-bikes, NMA, Parking, Parking Minimums, parking tickets, Scooters, Traffic Calming
Driving down a street, you come upon a delivery truck parked in your lane, and it’s impossible to pass. Frustration can’t even begin to describe how you feel, especially when you are already late. Double parking seems to be how a city functions due to condensed urban populations, the proliferation of small businesses, a tremendous […]
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