New York Traffic Blog

Bizarre & Funny Traffic Items

There are very few worse things that this motorist could have done following receipt of a speeding ticket. I’d be surprised if the motorist wasn’t also issued an unsafe backing…

WTF? Court Upholds Tasering Of Pregnant Motorist

March 31, 2010

A Federal appellate court recently held that three Seattle police officers were justified when they tasered a pregnant woman three times for refused to sign a speeding ticket and to…

Funny And Offensive Vanity License Plates

March 29, 2010

Bizarre & Funny Traffic Items

The New York DMV allows motorists to display custom license plates (aka vanity plates). The current basic price to order a vanity plate is $81.25 plus an annual fee of…

Therapy For Business Owners

March 25, 2010

Entrepreneurship

One of my all-time favorite business books is Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi. If you haven’t read it, run (don’t walk) to get and read it. It is the…

Coming Tomorrow: Crackdown On Drivers Not Using Hands-Free Device

March 24, 2010

Starting at midnight on March 25th, a 24-hour crackdown on motorists talking without hands-free devices will be launched by the New York City Police Department. A driver who is issued…

Traffic Lawyer Gets A Traffic Ticket (Part 5)

March 22, 2010

Part 4 in these series of blog posts was written back in October 2009. There hasn’t been an update until now because we were able to get a court date…

A New Traffic Control Device?

March 19, 2010

Stop signs were invented in 1915. and yield signs in 1950. Since then, however, no new types of traffic signs have been widely used. However, Gary Lauder, a Silicon Valley…

Standing Out In The Crowd

March 15, 2010

Entrepreneurship

While time and effort must often be expended to stand out in a crowd, it sometimes takes just one simple, creative idea to get yourself noticed. My friend Mike Doheny,…

How To Avoid Being Scammed By NYC Taxi Drivers

March 14, 2010