The Importance of Effective Infrastructure and Traffic Management
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 […]
Community Speed Watch: Is it Snitching or Driver Education?
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #713 in September 2022. If you like to subscribe to the NMA one topic motorist issue newsletter, click here. Green Bay, Wisconsin Police Department recently announced that it has partnered with the Green Bay Neighborhood Associations to start a ‘Community Speed Watch.’ […]
The Curse of Double Parking: NMA E-Newsletter #720
Driving down a street, you come upon a delivery truck parked in your lane, and it’s impossible to pass. Frustration can’t even begin to describe how you feel, especially when you are already late. Double parking seems to be how a city functions due to condensed urban populations, the proliferation of small businesses, a tremendous […]
Community Speed Watch: Is it Snitching or Driver Education? NMA E-Newsletter #713
Green Bay, Wisconsin Police Department recently announced that it has partnered with the Green Bay Neighborhood Associations to start a ‘Community Speed Watch.’ The department hopes that the program will bring more awareness to speeding. Lt. Nate Allen added, “One of our number one complaints in the city of Green Bay is traffic and the way people […]
Traffic Calming: Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
By Gary Biller, NMA President Editor’s Note: This post first appeared in April 2022 as NMA Weekly Newsletter #692. If you would like to receive the one-topic motorist-related newsletter every Sunday in your inbox, subscribe Here. Sudden cardiac arrest is a national public health crisis. In its Heart and Stroke Statistics – 2022 Update, the American […]
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, […]
Traffic Calming: Can’t See the Forest for the Trees: NMA E-Newsletter #692
Sudden cardiac arrest is a national public health crisis. In its Heart and Stroke Statistics – 2022 Update, the American Heart Association notes more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) occur in the United States every year, close to 1,000 per day. The survival rate from onset to hospital discharge hovers around ten percent. OHCA […]
Calm Before the Storm: NMA E-Newsletter #689
The city of Sarasota is located on the Gulf Coast of Florida, just south of Tampa. Its population has declined in recent years to about 55,000, according to the 2020 U.S. census, within 24 square miles of territory. During the winter months, the number of residents swells somewhat with the snowbird migration from the north. […]
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 […]
Traffic Safety is the Responsibility of All – Not Just Motorists
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in December 2021 as NMA E-Newsletter #674. Subscribe today if you would like to receive NMA’s one-topic E-Newsletter every Sunday! In October, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed AB122, a bill that would have enabled bicyclists to utilize the Idaho Stop (using stop signs as […]