By Jay Beeber, Director of Policy & Research, National Motorists Association If there was any doubt before, now we have a clear indication that the WAR ON CARS is real –and it’s being waged at the highest levels of society by authoritarian culture warriors. These tyrannical elitists seek to eliminate our freedom to travel where […]
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NMA E-Newsletter #736: Your Freedom to Travel is Under Attack
April 3, 2023 • 0 Comments • Automated Camera Tickets, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, FHWA, ITE, Mass Transit, NMA, NTSB, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, racial profiling, RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED, Road Diets, SPEED LIMIT, Speed Limits, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, USDOT, War on Cars
NMA E-Newsletter #734: National Roadway Safety Strategy: Is it a better mouse trap?
February 20, 2023 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, FHWA, ITE, MUTCD, NHTSA, road safety, Speed Limits
By Stewart W. Price, President of the National Motorists Association In January of 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation, led by Secretary Pete Buttigieg, published the “National Roadway Safety Strategy,” (NRSS) which serves as the playbook for revamping our current roadway system. It spells out the following goals and corresponding implementation strategies for: Safer People […]
Speed Limiters Coming to a Highway Near You!
January 6, 2023 • 0 Comments • FMCSA, GPS, ISA, Lane Courtesy, NTSB, OOIDA, SAFETY, Speed Limiters, Speed Limits, Technology, Traffic Congestion
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This post first appeared in October 2022 as NMA E-Newsletter #718. If you would like to subscribe to our weekly E-Newsletter, click HERE. During driver’s ed class, many of us drove lesson cars with speed governors. Newbies needed them so they wouldn’t endanger themselves or their trainer […]
Going No Faster in Cars That Can, Safely
Cars have changed a lot over the past 50 years. Speed limits and how people drive haven’t. Fifty years ago, most cars still had drum brakes in the back and marginal disc brakes up front. None had ABS. It took them longer to stop. Unless you knew how to brake, they would go into a skid if […]
Taking the Politics Out of Speed Limit Setting—a Member Responds: NMA Newsletter #729
January 2, 2023 • 1 Comment • 85TH PERCENTILE, MUTCD, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, Speed Limits, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
By Don Bain, NMA Oregon Member Editor’s Note: Don submitted these comments to the NMA National Office in response to Newsletter #724 Taking the Politics Out of Speed Limit Setting. While sound from an engineering perspective, there’s an inherent challenge with speed surveys and the 85% percentile speed point: establishing and documenting what “free-flowing conditions” are, […]
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