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 strategy is to “save paradise and take away a parking lot.” How did we get here? The only way to […]
61 Blog Posts From the Parking Tag
War on Parking Just Got Real: NMA E-Newsletter #717
October 10, 2022 • 0 Comments • CALIFORNIA, Congestion Pricing, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, Parking, tolls, Traffic Congestion
Recent Chicago Parking Audit Spells Bad News for Motorists (and Every Other Resident): NMA E-Newsletter #708
August 8, 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
As of 2022, 61 years are left on the 75-year parking meter lease now held by the Chicago Parking Meters LLC. A recent city audit stated that the private company had already recouped its entire $1.16 billion investment plus $502.5 million more. According to a recent Chicago Sun-Times article, Chicago parking meter revenue is back […]
Should 18-year-olds Drive a Big Rig?
• June 17, 2022 • 1 Comment • ATA, CDL, DRIVER EDUCATION, Driver's License, FMCSA, INSURANCE, OOIDA, Parking, SAFETY
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in February 2022 as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #685. If you would like to become a subscriber to our Sunday one-topic newsletter, click HERE. The minimum age to obtain a commercial driver’s license and drive a tractor-trailer within state boundaries is 18 in all states. Federal guidelines require the driver […]
Public Realizes Nowhere is Safe from Big Brother as Chula Vista, CA Police Celebrate 10,000th Drone Call
May 13, 2022 • 0 Comments • Bicyclist, DRONES, ICE, license plate readers, Parking, parking tickets, PEDESTRIAN, PRIVACY, SAFETY, Street Lights, Technology, Traffic Congestion
From Joe Cadillic, founder MassPrivatel Blog This story should serve as a warning to everyone: police are lying about only using drones to cover emergency calls. Red flags should have been going up all across the country when the Chula Vista Police Department announced that it took them only three years to have their drones […]
Should Bikelash be Over? (and no, this is not an April Fool’s Joke)
• April 1, 2022 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, Bicyclist, bike lanes, Bikelash, Idaho Stop, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, Speed Bumps, Speed Limits, stop signs, Traffic Congestion, VISION ZERO
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in December 2021 as an NMA Weekly Newsletter #675. If you would like to receive the one-topic newsletter from the National Motorists Association, subscribe today. Even before the pandemic, bike lanes were springing up all over the country in cities large and small. Most motorists weren’t happy, mainly because […]
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