New California Bill Will Pay Residents $1,000 for Not Owning a Car – This makes NO Cents
By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach A new California bill will pay residents $1,000 for NOT owning a car. SB457 has been proposed as a way to reduce traffic congestion and save the state money. While the bill may sound like a great idea on the surface, there are some serious concerns about it. For […]
How Driving Age and Norms Vary Throughout the World
At what age are you able to receive your driver’s license? What might it look like to drive on a road in another part of the world? How do people drive, and how does it vary from our own experience here in the United States? The laws and traffic regulations surrounding driving throughout the world […]
A Response to “The Automobile Won”: NMA E-Newsletter #706
by Sherman Johnson, NMA Maryland Member Editor’s Note: NMA e-newsletters and blog posts that stir debate serve the valuable purpose of creating conversation that often leads to a better understanding of the issues at hand. Sherman Johnson’s response to The Automobile Won (Part 1, NMA E-Newsletter #702, and Part 2, #703) follows. The NMA’s stance […]
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 […]
The Automobile Won Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #703
By Randal O’Toole, The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: This post recently appeared on The Antiplanner website and we thought it was an important piece for all NMA supporters to read and digest. Check out Part 1 here. The Benefits of Autos As a recent article by a British journalist noted, “the war on cars is a […]
The Automobile Won Part 1: NMA E-Newsletter #702
By Randal O’Toole, The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: This post recently appeared on The Antiplanner website and we thought it was an important piece for all NMA supporters to read and digest. Part 2 will be featured in next week’s E-Newsletter. Last month, anti-automobile activists led by the Congress for the New Urbanism announced the formation […]
Public Realizes Nowhere is Safe from Big Brother as Chula Vista, CA Police Celebrate 10,000th Drone Call
From Joe Cadillic, founder MassPrivatel Blog This story should serve as a warning to everyone: police are lying about only using drones to cover emergency calls. Red flags should have been going up all across the country when the Chula Vista Police Department announced that it took them only three years to have their drones […]
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 […]
Should Bikelash be Over? (and no, this is not an April Fool’s Joke)
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in December 2021 as an NMA Weekly Newsletter #675. If you would like to receive the one-topic newsletter from the National Motorists Association, subscribe today. Even before the pandemic, bike lanes were springing up all over the country in cities large and small. Most motorists weren’t happy, mainly because […]
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. […]