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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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
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 […]
How to Fight Speed Bumps, Humps, and Cushions Part 2
December 14, 2021 • 2 Comment • Bicyclist, PEDESTRIAN, SAFETY, Speed Bumps, Speed Cushions, Speed Humps, Takata Airbags, Traffic Calming
By California NMA Member Stacey Charlton In Part 1, we learned the difference between speed bumps, humps, and cushions. Overseas they are called “sleeping policemen.” There are many disadvantages to these so-called road hazards/control devices …I mean speed calming devices that are not clearly disclosed through a city’s public work’s engineering department. This series of […]
How to Fight Speed Bumps, Humps and Cushions Part 1
December 10, 2021 • 6 Comment • NMA, SAFETY, Speed Bumps, Speed Cushions, Speed Humps, SPEED LIMIT, Traffic Calming
By California NMA Member Stacey Charlton Speed bumps, humps, and cushions are the common names for traffic calming/control devices that lie in the street in both a vertical and horizontal plane to make drivers slow down. The many disadvantages to these road hazards are not always clearly disclosed through a city’s public works, traffic engineering, […]
Over Engineering Speed Limits
October 29, 2021 • 3 Comment • 85TH PERCENTILE, Insurance Companies, NMA, NMSL, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Speed Bumps, Speed Limits, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Calming, traffic safety, Traffic Tickets
By an Anonymous NMA Member from Arizona The government recently lowered the speed limit on my main street from 45 to 40. I calculated that if I lived to the same age as my mother, the reduced speed limit would cost me five days of productive life. Not enough to worry about, but it’s the […]
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