In the year after Cheyenne, Wyoming reduced the speed limit to 25 traffic deaths in Laramie County more than doubled compared to the year before when the speed limit was 30. We need to fight further attempts to reduce speed limits The first sentence is literally true, but misleading. (Terminology inspired by an important Supreme […]
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One city’s traffic speed data
One job of a municipal transportation department is answering “speeding” complaints. Some cities respond by collecting speed data to see if the complaint is really about speed or about unwanted traffic. Often the response doesn’t see the light of day, but Cambridge, Massachusetts has released 28 years of data collected in response to such complaints. […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: April 13, 2016
April 13, 2016 • 0 Comments • Gary Biller, Insurance Companies, NMA, Red-Light Cameras, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, TheNewspaper, Traffic Tickets, Yellow Light Duration
Each Wednesday, we’ll publish quick summaries of the articles from the last week on TheNewspaper.com. We’re doing this because these articles are often strongly connected to the issues that National Motorists Association members are interested in. Wednesday, April 13, 2016 Opinion: Insurance Industry Claims 32,894 Deaths From Higher Speed Limits The insurance industry is going […]
The $150 million speed trap
Some drivers think a 35 mile per hour speed limit is too slow for a four lane divided highway. Police don’t: they say it’s a good excuse to search cars. This story comes from Fairmont, West Virginia, whose 19,000 people got a $150 million new speed trap in 2010. View Larger Map In the middle […]
Cheyenne corrects an error
Since I call out crooked local politicians for ignoring the law and running illegal speed traps or otherwise violating traffic control rules, I thought I’d point out an example of an error being corrected. In 2004 Cheyenne, Wyoming passed a law — ordinance 3612 — setting the speed limit within city limits to 25. That […]
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