By Gary Biller, NMA President Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on February 13, 2022, as a NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #683. 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 […]
160 Blog Posts From the REVENUE GENERATION Tag
The USDOT, Speed Cameras, and Automated Corruption
June 10, 2022 • 0 Comments • Automated Camera Tickets, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Corruption, Driver's License, LEGISLATION, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, road safety, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, Traffic Tickets
Speed Trap Karma Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #698
May 30, 2022 • 0 Comments • LEGISLATION, RADAR, RADAR DETECTOR, REVENUE GENERATION, SPEED LIMIT, Speed Limits, SPEED TRAP, Speed Traps, TICKET FINES, TICKET QUOTA, TICKET REVENUE, traffic enforcement, Traffic Tickets
Reason.com recently published a list of eleven U.S. towns where their police forces were either disbanded or their autonomy as a governmental entity was dissolved because of an addiction to, and dependence on, ticket revenue. We thought it would be informative to present excerpts from Reason’s article for those cities along with select driver-sourced comments […]
Speed Trap Karma Part 1: NMA E-Newsletter #697
May 23, 2022 • 0 Comments • ALABAMA, FLORIDA, ILLEGAL SEARCH, LEGISLATION, OHIO, REVENUE GENERATION, SPEED LIMIT, SPEED TRAP, Speed Traps, TICKET FINES, TICKET QUOTA, Ticket Quotas, TICKET REVENUE, traffic enforcement, Traffic Tickets
Reason.com recently published a list of eleven U.S. towns where their police forces were either disbanded or their autonomy as a governmental entity was dissolved because of an addiction to, and dependence on, ticket revenue. We thought it would be informative to present excerpts from Reason’s article for those cities along with select driver-sourced comments […]
Red-Light Camera Merry-Go-Round in North Carolina: NMA E-Newsletter #694
May 2, 2022 • 0 Comments • LEGISLATION, NORTH CAROLINA, Policing for Profit, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE
Red-light cameras have once again been declared unconstitutional in North Carolina. No one is surprised because this is the second time RLCs have been declared in violation of state law. Policing for profit, even if it is allegedly designed to benefit the school systems, always has a stench about it. Case in point—the city of Greenville […]
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
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 […]
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