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 […]
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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
Level of Service: Measuring Traffic Congestion
• June 28, 2019 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Congestion Pricing, Gas Tax, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, REVENUE GENERATION, Ridesharing, TOLL, TOLLING, Traffic Congestion, VMT
This article first appeared in the NMA Foundation’s Driving Freedoms Magazine Spring 2019 edition. According to the latest census, 85 percent of all Americans travel to work by single passenger car or by carpool. Since World War II, land use and American culture have been built around driving cars from locations A to B. By […]
Motorists in Court—Latest Court Case Updates from Around the Country: NMA E-Newsletter #544
June 17, 2019 • 0 Comments • BLOOD WITHDRAWAL, DUI/DWI, FOURTH AMENDMENT, LEGISLATION, Policing for Profit, REVENUE GENERATION, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TOLL, TRAFFIC STOP, Traffic Tickets
This time of year, many state legislatures have wrapped up their yearly bills, but courts never stop. Here are just some of the cases we have been tracking. The Colorado Supreme Court recently declared that an alert by a drug-sniffing police dog to detect marijuana and other drugs no longer provides probable cause for a […]
E-ZPass is Anything But: A Motorist’s Viewpoint
This post originally appeared as an NMA E-Newsletter in February 2019. Abuses by tolling authorities continue to mount. The lawsuit filed last year in U.S. District Court by Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and the NMA against the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for collecting inflated tolls to pay for projects unrelated to the operation and maintenance of the Turnpike […]
Bumper to Bumper: How Singapore Is Combating Traffic Jams
The problem of traffic in Singapore has been a subject of heated discussion among drivers and lawmakers for more than 40 years. The problem was first widely addressed in 1975 when traffic shut local traffic at peak times to such a crawl, commuters were only averaging about 12 miles per hour, even on multi-lane highways. […]
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