By Jack Shaw, Syndicated Columnist Commercial fleets are made of experts at navigating any city, road and weather condition. Their jobs become easier if destinations consider their utility in urban designs. Explore the importance of sensible, accessible infrastructure alongside well-managed traffic. How do these concepts translate to drivers, and how do they impact cities? Vans […]
55 Blog Posts From the SPEED LIMIT Tag
The Importance of Effective Infrastructure and Traffic Management
January 18, 2024 • 0 Comments • Bicyclist, Electric Vehicle, Fuel, Infrastructure, PEDESTRIAN, ROUNDABOUT, SAFETY, Speed Bumps, SPEED LIMIT, Traffic Calming, Traffic Congestion
National Transportation Safety Board Calls For Speed-Limiting in Cars
November 26, 2023 • 0 Comments • Auto Industry, DRIVER EDUCATION, Driver's License, GPS, IIHS, Intelligent Speed Assistance, NHTSA, NTSB, Speed, SPEED LIMIT, Speed Limiters, SPEEDING, Technology
By Lauren Fix We have played this game before. And we have won. Now it’s time to play it once more and we need your support! The NTSB urged 17 automakers to install intelligent speed-assistance technology in all new vehicles that, at a minimum, warns a driver when the vehicle is speeding. The National Transportation […]
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
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 […]
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, […]
Two Lanes of Driving Behavior–Are you a Safe Driver? Are you a Compliant Driver?
By Stewart Price, NMA Programs Officer Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #711 from August 2022. If you would like to subscribe to our single-topic motorist-issue weekly newsletter, click here. Until I started working here at the NMA, I thought these two questions are the same. As the French would say, “C’est […]
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