Almost every new car comes standard with various driver “assistance” technology such as Brake Assist, Lane Keep Assist, and Park Assist. New forms of “assistance” propagate with each new model year and sometimes sooner. It raises questions about people’s competence to drive without such “assistance,” especially when such “assistance” becomes unavailable. This happens for the same basic […]
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Should Bikelash be Over?: NMA E-Newsletter #675
December 20, 2021 • 1 Comment • 85TH PERCENTILE, Bicyclist, bike lanes, Idaho Stop, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, Speed Bumps, Speed Limits, stop signs, Traffic Congestion, VISION ZERO
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 fewer travel lanes typically translated into longer trips through congested traffic. During the pandemic, the rate of cities building bike lanes and banning cars on streets rose dramatically. The anti-car crowd […]
You Have Trouble Parking? At Least, You’re Not a Trucker
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as an NMA Weekly E-Newsletter in August 2021. If you would like to subscribe to the one-topic newsletter that arrives in the inbox every Sunday morning, click here. We need truckers—these men and women crisscross the country to bring goods to shelves everywhere, and without them, our economic engine […]
The Effort to Dictate How We Live
November 12, 2021 • 0 Comments • Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, Technology, VISION ZERO
By Gary Biller, NMA President Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as an NMA Weekly E-Newsletter in August 2021. If you would like to receive the one-topic newsletter every Sunday, subscribe HERE. While we have warned about the Vision Zero and Complete Streets mission to force people out of their cars in many previous writings, […]
Crime Isn’t the Only Thing That Doesn’t Pay: NMA E-Newsletter #668
November 1, 2021 • 0 Comments • LOS ANGELES, Parking, parking tickets, REVENUE GENERATION, TICKET FINES, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
Care to hazard a guess on how much money the city of Los Angeles has raked in from traffic and parking enforcement during their last five fiscal years, which end each June 30th? If your estimate is more than half a billion dollars, you are getting warm. During those five years, Los Angeles collected more […]
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