With the first major driving holiday of the summer season approaching, we have analyzed the laws across the country to determine the best and the worst states when it comes to exploiting the motoring public. These state rankings were calculated using seventeen criteria related to specific traffic laws, enforcement practices, and the treatment of traffic […]
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Watch Your Wallet When Driving Through These 10 States
May 22, 2009 • 0 Comments • James Baxter, NMA, Red-Light Cameras, Roadblocks, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, Speed Traps, Toll Roads, Traffic Tickets
Majority Of Speed Camera Photos In Arizona Are Unusable
The Arizona Republic did an analysis of the speed camera program and concluded that the majority of photos had to be thrown out. Here’s an excerpt: Motorists activated photo-enforcement cameras on Arizona highways more than 471,000 times from December through February – more than 5,200 times each day – but on average, only about one-third […]
Ohio Cashes In On Freeway With Artificially Low Speed Limit
Unfortunately, there are plenty of stories like this one every week: All this week, packs of Columbus-based officers on white motorcycles have been prowling Akron’s freeways, handing out tickets faster than a political candidate distributing fliers at a football game. During the first three days alone: 600 citations. At best, this is dirty pool. At […]
Where Does The Money From A Speeding Ticket Go?
By James Baxter, NMA President In this land where reality and fiction are indistinguishable there is a dead legal principle that says judges and courts should not personally benefit from the results of their rulings. Obviously, there is a conflict of interest anytime a judge’s well being would be affected by his or her decision. […]
Traffic Tickets: A Tax Increase By Other Means
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Governments all over the country are looking for creative ways to increase their cashflow — without a formal tax raise. Instead of filching through everyone’s pockets via a new sales tax or jacking up the real estate assessment — actions that generate outrage among the peasantry, especially as the economy […]
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