Source: MassPrivateI September 11, 2018 by mapi All across the country, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is hard at work convincing cities to lower their speed limits from 30 MPH to 25 MPH. The national effort to lower speed limits in cities is known as “Vision Zero.” To date, the NHTSA, NSC and the IIHS have convinced more than thirty cities to lower their speed limits. Last month the IIHS published a controversial report titled “Lowering the speed limit from 30 to 25 mph in Boston: effects on vehicle speeds.” (To learn more about Boston’s Vision Zero program, click here.) Why is it controversial? The Newspaper, recently interviewed the National Motorists Association who pointed…
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Police State on Display
Boston Offers Grim Preview of Coming Attractions by DAVE LINDORFF April 22, 2013 The Boston Marathon bombing has already demonstrated the best and the worst of America for all the world to see. First, let’s talk about the best. When the bombs detonated, despite the shock and the horror of the blown-off legs and arms, and the blood on street and sidewalk, and without knowing what else might be coming, ordinary citizens jumped into action to try and help the gravely wounded and the dying. Average people with no experience in this kind of mayhem stepped up without hesitation to care for strangers, applying tourniquets, carrying people who couldn’t…
