This article first appeared in the NMA Foundation’s Driving Freedoms Magazine Spring 2019 edition. According to the latest census, 85 percent of all Americans travel to work by single passenger car or by carpool. Since World War II, land use and American culture have been built around driving cars from locations A to B. By […]
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Level of Service: Measuring Traffic Congestion
• June 28, 2019 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Congestion Pricing, Gas Tax, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, REVENUE GENERATION, Ridesharing, TOLL, TOLLING, Traffic Congestion, VMT
Motorists in Court—Latest Court Case Updates from Around the Country: NMA E-Newsletter #544
June 17, 2019 • 0 Comments • BLOOD WITHDRAWAL, DUI/DWI, FOURTH AMENDMENT, LEGISLATION, Policing for Profit, REVENUE GENERATION, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TOLL, TRAFFIC STOP, Traffic Tickets
This time of year, many state legislatures have wrapped up their yearly bills, but courts never stop. Here are just some of the cases we have been tracking. The Colorado Supreme Court recently declared that an alert by a drug-sniffing police dog to detect marijuana and other drugs no longer provides probable cause for a […]
Predatory Towing Not Just an Inconvenience: NMA E-Newsletter #539
May 13, 2019 • 0 Comments • Civil Asset Forfeiture, Driver's License, DUI/DWI, LEGISLATION, NMA, Predatory Towing, PUBLIC RECORDS, REVENUE GENERATION, TICKET FINES, TOWING, Traffic Tickets
Cities tow cars for many reasons. They are often towed when doubled parked or left in front of a fire hydrant. If there are too many parking tickets, cities will often boot first, and if the driver does not pay the tickets in a certain amount of time, the boot comes off, and the vehicle […]
Officer Frank: NMA E-Newsletter #538
May 6, 2019 • 0 Comments • Corruption, NMA, REVENUE GENERATION, SEAT BELT, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC STOP, Traffic Tickets
Editor’s Note: Over the years, the NMA has received occasional contact from law enforcement officers who have complained about department policies, sometimes crafted to avoid direct violation of state anti-ticket-quota laws, which force officers to write a predetermined number of citations during each work shift. The following commentary recently submitted to us by “Officer Frank” […]
Again, The Lines are Drawn in Ohio: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #536
April 22, 2019 • 0 Comments • Automated Traffic Enforcement, CIVIL, Driver's License, Gas Tax, LEGISLATION, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, Speed Cameras, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA
In early April, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine approved an $8 billion, two-year transportation budget that included a 10.5 cents-per-gallon gas tax hike and a 19 cent hike on diesel fuel. Raising taxes is always controversial but what has the state’s mayors in a tizzy is something entirely different. When the governor signed off on the […]
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