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What Happens If You Remove All The Traffic Signs From A City?

There's an interesting article over at The Wilson Quarterly about a traffic engineer with some unique, counterintuitive ideas on how to make driving more safe and enjoyable. Here's an excerpt: In the last few years, however, one traffic engineer did achieve a ...

Traffic Lights: Just Check Them Every Couple Decades Or So

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Seattle officials said Wednesday [July 2nd] that they've synchronized signals at 258 downtown intersections for the first time in more than two decades and promised quicker, less polluting trips through the central business district will result. Drivers will ...

The Real Reason Ken Livingstone Lost

By Jim Baxter, NMA President The recent elections in Great Britain have been touted as a reaction to a slowing economy, declining housing values, and rising jobless rates. Of particular note was the sacking of the high profile mayor of ...

Why Don’t Politicians Care About Transportation Issues?

By Jim Baxter, NMA President In what has to be history’s longest political campaign, I have yet to hear anything meaningful about public policies that directly affect motorists. Sure, there have been inane and uneducated comments stimulated by major events, like the ...

A Simple Method To Dramatically Decrease Traffic Congestion & Why Cities Aren’t Using It

If there was an easy way to cut the amount of time that you spend sitting in traffic, wouldn't you expect the government to find a way to use it? Synchronizing traffic signals so that people can get ...