Driving News Roundup: May 18, 2012

This is a weekly feature on the NMA Blog, running each Friday, where we highlight seven of the most interesting driving news stories of the week. New Jersey: Senator introduces bill to ban red-light cameras A New Jersey state Senator has introduced ...

TheNewspaper.com Roundup: May 16, 2012

Each Wednesday, we'll publish quick summaries of the articles from the last week on TheNewspaper.com. We're doing this because these articles are often strongly connected to the issues that National Motorists Association members are interested in. Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Oklahoma ...

Driving News Roundup: May 11, 2012

This is a weekly feature on the NMA Blog, running each Friday, where we highlight seven of the most interesting driving news stories of the week. New Jersey: ACLU wins court order to block new driver's license rules The ACLU has won ...

Divorce Court?

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Americans' love affair with the car may be headed for divorce court. The Pew Research Center did a study recently that says the number of people who still enjoy going for a drive has dropped from ...

Yet Another Study

By James J. Baxter. This article originally appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of NMA's Driving Freedoms magazine. A recent report in The Wall Street Journal illustrates how public opinion can be misled and manipulated by agenda-driven politics. The Journal is ...

TheNewspaper.com Roundup: April 11, 2012

Each Wednesday, we'll publish quick summaries of the articles from the last week on TheNewspaper.com. We're doing this because these articles are often strongly connected to the issues that National Motorists Association members are interested in. Wednesday, April 11, 2012 Washington ...

Driving News Roundup: March 30, 2012

This is a weekly feature on the NMA Blog, running each Friday, where we highlight seven of the most interesting driving news stories of the week. Washington D.C: Mayor wants speed, red-light cameras all over D.C. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said Tuesday ...

A Powerful Case By Law Enforcement For Safe And Realistic Speed Limits

This article originally appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of Driving Freedoms, the NMA's quarterly member newsletter. The Michigan State Police get it. Not only do they get it, the MSP are instrumental in advocating for it with their state legislators. “It” ...

Speed Limit 50 Except When We Don’t Like It

By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist Vermont speed law is simpler than most. The speed limit is 50 except as posted following an engineering and traffic investigation. (23 VSA 1007, 1081) City officials in Burlington decided the law does not align with ...

Speed Up For The Children?

By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist Last time I suggested we were barking up the wrong tree by quoting statistics for car-pedestrian crash survivability. A 1995 article in the British Medical Journal asked how often people were hurt by cars. "How dangerous ...