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 ...

Do You Know How They Set Speed Limits?

If you're a regular reader of this website, then you probably are familiar with the correct way to set speed limits. It's also likely that you know that in many parts of the country, local and state officials tend to ...

Life in the Slow Fast Lane

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist In the '80s, when most cars were slow, you could drive fast and mostly get away with it. Or at least you could do it and (usually) not risk a beating -- or a shooting. True, you'd ...

Don’t Drive Faster Than Your Speedometer Will Go

By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist Wayne Crews recently posted an editorial on cost-benefit analysis and regulations. It's worth a read. In the 1970s the Carter administration prohibited speedometers from indicating speeds over 85 miles per hour. The idea was ...

Traffic Best Practices: A NMA Member Editorial

We wanted to share this excellent editorial (also published in the Grand Forks Herald) by a long-time NMA member. Let North Dakota Lead Way On Traffic "Best Practices" From the beginning of time, people have been building and improving roads; and ...

Texas May Go To 85… Oh, The Humanity!

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Maybe we're over the hump. Texas appears to be on the verge of raising its highway speed limits to 85. That's good news for Texas motorists, who may soon get to drive legally at speeds they travel ...

Speed Limit Legislative News

By John Carr, NMA Activist It's the time of the year when many state legislatures convene. In Iowa, a bill would raise speed limits on two lane roads from 55 to 60. According to the DOT, the 85th percentile speed is slightly ...

Life in the Far Left Lane

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist I think the Fluoride in the water has done its thing... Almost every time I go out, I come up on a car that's doing either just barely the limit and often several MPH below it. The ...