New York Traffic Blog

For months, I’ve written about the dangers of driving and texting. Well, this week the New York Times caught up with me and wrote a piece entitled “Driven To Distraction:…

New York City To Get Smart Parking Meters

October 1, 2009

Parking Tickets

Old Fashioned Parking Meters To Be Replaced With Smart Meters Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that he wants to make the parking experience for New Yorkers more user friendly. Specifically, he…

Grandpa Pulls Gun To Avoid A Traffic Ticket

September 29, 2009

Bizarre & Funny Traffic Items

Octagenerian Pulls BB Gun To Fight Traffic Ticket Here’s a great lesson on how NOT to fight a ticket. An 85-year old, Illinois man strolled into the Huntley police station…

Unsafe Backing A Moving Violation?

September 27, 2009

A reader recently inquired whether unsafe backing is a moving violation. The answer is yes. This ticket carries 2 points is most commonly issued in New York toll plazas for…

Speed Cameras Coming To New York?

September 24, 2009

I am pleased to report that “Man Dons Monkey Mask To Avoid Speeding Ticket” has generated the most hits of any of my blog posts and the feedback has been…

Funniest DWI Video Ever

September 23, 2009

Bizarre & Funny Traffic Items

Hard to believe that this guy was actually driving a car.

Traffic Lawyer Gets Traffic Ticket (Part 3)

September 20, 2009

New York Traffic Ticket For Disobeying A Traffic Control Device I have been diligently scouring the Vehicle and Traffic Law and researching relevant case law precedents to craft a defense…

Traffic Lawyer Gets Traffic Ticket (Part 2)

September 18, 2009

Thumbs Up On Getting A Traffic Ticket I’ve been regularly blogging since January 2009, and have never received as much feedback about a post as I have about Part 1…

Traffic Lawyer Gets Traffic Ticket (Part 1)

September 16, 2009