NMA E-Newsletter #736: Your Freedom to Travel is Under Attack
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: NMA E-Newsletter #724
All traffic is local, and nothing gets people riled up more than speed limits. The 85th percentile has been the standard for measuring speed limits for years. Due to pressure from groups such as Vision Zero and Complete Streets, this standard of measuring speed is losing ground in states such as California, Oregon, and Massachusetts, […]
Motor City should be Renamed Speed Hump City
The city of Detroit recently identified more than 2,000 new speed hump locations. The plan is to install 3,000 of the traffic obstacles by the end of 2022. That is in addition to the 5,500 humps added throughout the city in 2021. When this street obstacle program started as part of Detroit’s Complete Streets program, the […]
Tale of Two Cities’ Smart Intersection Programs
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared in April 2022 as NMA Weekly Newsletter #693. If you would like to receive the one-topic motorist-related newsletter every Sunday in your inbox, subscribe Here. Pittsburgh, PA, and Lakeland, FL have instituted smart intersections but are handling them differently. As more cities become connected, i.e., having elements of infrastructure […]
Motor City should be Renamed Speed Hump City: NMA E-Newsletter #696
The city of Detroit recently identified more than 2,000 new speed hump locations. The plan is to install 3,000 of the traffic obstacles by the end of 2022. That is in addition to the 5,500 humps added throughout the city in 2021. When this street obstacle program started as part of Detroit’s Complete Streets program, […]
Tale of Two Cities’ Smart Intersection Programs: NMA E-Newsletter #693
Pittsburgh, PA, and Lakeland, FL have instituted smart intersections but are handling them differently. As more cities become connected, i.e., having elements of infrastructure and society interconnected digitally via the internet, intelligent signaling might revolutionize traffic flow, for better or worse. Market analysis firm Navigant Research has projected that smart signals will become a $3.8 […]
The Changing Landscape of Speed Limits
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared as the cover story in the Winter 2022 Edition of the National Motorists Association’s quarterly magazine Driving Freedoms. If you would like to receive our magazine, please become a member of the NMA today! Advocating for speed limits based on sound traffic-engineering […]
And So It Begins—Vision Zero from the Top Down: NMA E-Newsletter #682
US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently announced that his department wants to drastically reduce deadly traffic accidents through vehicle and street design changes. The USDOT also plans to use $14 billion in funding from the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill to encourage the states to make extensive use of speed cameras to enforce lowered […]
A Data-Driven Approach to Transportation Safety Part 1: NMA E-Newsletter #670
By Randal O’Toole, The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: The NMA has received permission to post this report on recent findings on traffic safety in the US. Parts 2 and 3 will be featured in subsequent weeks. About 20,160 people died in traffic accidents in the first half of 2021, according to an early estimate released last week by the […]
The Effort to Dictate How We Live
By Gary Biller, NMA President Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as an NMA Weekly E-Newsletter in August 2021. If you would like to receive the one-topic newsletter every Sunday, subscribe HERE. While we have warned about the Vision Zero and Complete Streets mission to force people out of their cars in many previous writings, […]