Location: Madison Ballroom
of the Concourse Hotel
Date: Tuesday, September 5
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Registration: $75.00 (includes Lunch)
We typically speak of “accidents”,
rarely of crashes or road violence; and rarer still do
we treat them as matters of systematic injustice. Yet
they are more than an accumulation of random events, more
than a series of regrettable yet unavoidable byproducts
of our transportation system. They constitute a deeply
violent and anti-social assault on life, health and community.
Beginning with your participation in The
Traffic Justice Institute, we plan to mount a campaign
to redefine our societal perspective on motor vehicle
crashes, and substantially reduce their occurrence. We
will come at this goal from every possible angle, including
transforming public discourse about road safety, holding
drivers accountable for their actions, changing highway
design to better limit motor vehicle speeds, enabling
the full use of every enforcement technology, and curtailing
the use of distracting electronic devices.
We see this as a national campaign, fueled
by local groups. A small national staff will provide a
broad perspective, technical advice, advocacy support,
position papers, press releases, and coordination among
local initiatives. Local groups will provide success stories
through implementing a menu of local initiatives based
on local needs and local interests.
The National Center for Bicycling
and Walking has never tackled an issue this large, this
complex, this significant. Join the effort! Attend the
Traffic Justice Institute! Be able to tell your children
and grandchildren that you were there when the magic happened!
Be able to say you helped make them safer!
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Special
Book Preview
We encourage all who will attend the Traffic
Justice Institute to purchase the following
book, It's No Accident: The Real Story
Behind Death and Injury on Our Roads,
and read it before the conference. The book
is available through the following Web site:
www.crashprevention.org.
For those unable to make
this commitment at this time, we've made special
arrangements with the author, Lisa Lewis,
to preview chapter nine, "Fragments
of a Movement." Please
take time to read this, you will not be disappointed. |
| To
download "Fragments
of a Movement" from
It's No Accident: The Real Story Behind
Death and Injury on Our Roads,
click
here. (PDF Format) Reprinted
with the kind permission of the author, Lisa
Lewis. |
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Please review the following
background material in preparation for the Institute:
