New York Traffic Blog

A violation of a VTL 1212 reckless driving ticket is a very serious charge with many costs. Outside New York City, reckless driving tickets are not routinely issued in New…

Traffic Court Judge Booted Off Bench For Sexting

December 27, 2011

Generally, it is a good quality for judges to be open and transparent. However, Philadelphia traffic court judge Willie Singletary allegedly took this belief a little too far (and low).…

Lawyer Gets In Big Trouble After Lying About Speeding Ticket

December 14, 2011

Some motorists will go to great lengths to beat a traffic ticket. However, this story is over-the-top (in a bad way). A Queens lawyer claimed that a New Jersey trooper used…

NYC Uses QR Codes And Haiku To Promote Traffic Safety

December 2, 2011

Be safe. Watch out. Drive carefully. These are all common expressions that we say all the time. Unfortunately, they are so commonplace that they can be easily ignored Well New…

First Amendment Extends To License Plates

November 14, 2011

In March 2010, I wrote about how DMV censors vanity license plate requests and rejects those which it finds to be offensive in a post entitled “Funny And Offensive Vanity…

Commercial Vehicles No Longer Must Display NYC Tax Stamps?

November 7, 2011

Truck Tickets

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently sued New York City arguing that it is unlawful for the city to require commercial vehicle operators to display an MVT sticker, and…

What The NYC Ticket-Fixing Scandal Means To Motorists

November 1, 2011

I first wrote about the New York City ticket-fixing scandal last April. We explained that in all 12 Bronx precincts, fixing traffic tickets was a common practice. Indeed, one or more officers…

What Is True Discipline?

October 24, 2011

Entrepreneurship

I had a opportunity to hear one of the all-time great business writers and speakers, Jim Collins, this month. Author of business classics “Good To Great” and “Built To Last”, Collins…

Mimes Enforcing Traffic Laws?

October 11, 2011