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 […]
13 Blog Posts From the Scooters Tag
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
Lime Turns E-Scooters into Micromobility Surveillance Platforms
August 16, 2022 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Cameras, E-Scooters, Facial Recognition, GPS TRACKING, Infrastructure, license plate readers, Micromobility, PEDESTRIAN, PRIVACY, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Scooters, Speed, Technology
By Joe Cadillic, founder of Politically Incorrect News on Substack Under the guise of public safety, Lime’s E-scooters could soon be recording everyone and everything they see. A recent article in TechCrunch revealed that Lime’s advanced rider assistance technology (ARAT) will be using a camera to detect when riders are on sidewalks. “At a Lime event in Paris, the […]
Little-Vehicle-Topia: Micromobility and the Rest of Us
December 1, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATW, Bicycle, Bicyclist, E-Scooters, Gas Taxes, Infrastructure, INSURANCE, Mass Transit, Micromobility, Road Diets, SAFETY, Scooters, Speed Limits, VISION ZERO
From Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on the Auto Tech Watch blog on February 10, 2019. All the articles linked have not been updated. I was exercise walking in my local park last fall and suddenly out of nowhere, a young woman on a scooter zipped past me and […]
Transportation Engineers Debate Vision Zero, Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #564
November 4, 2019 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Congestion Pricing, ITE, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, SAFETY, Scooters, TOLL, VISION ZERO
Last week in Part 1, we shared some posts made on the Institute of Transportation Engineers Member Forum that started a debate about the efficacy of the Vision Zero goals. The discussion in that thread — “A ‘War on Cars’? Let there be Peace!” — was too varied and interesting to fit into the contents […]
NMA Wrap Up of Legislative Activity, 3rd Quarter 2019: NMA E-Newsletter #562
October 21, 2019 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, BAC, Bicycle, Complete Streets, Congestion Pricing, ITE, LEGISLATION, MOVE OVER LAW, NMA, NMA Foundation, PEDESTRIAN, RADAR, Road Diets, SAFETY, Scooters, SPEED CAMERA, SPEED LIMIT, SPEED TRAP, TICKET CAMERA, Traffic Calming, Traffic Congestion, VISION ZERO, YELLOW LIGHT, YELLOW LIGHT TIMING
July, August, and September were not nearly as active in resolving NMA-tracked legislation as in the second quarter, but October began with some very important events that will have positive ramifications for motorists well into the future. Let’s start with the final disposition of bills in the third quarter: Bills Opposed by the NMA […]
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