[sustran] Re: [LotsLessCars] Children and traffic safety

Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory edelman at greenidea.eu
Wed May 6 01:49:00 JST 2009
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Make roads (safe).

(Does anyone remember when the HIV AIDS campaigns, at least in the UK - 
to their credit - started saying "safer" instead of "safe"? This 
campaign seems completely oblivious....)

Some highlights from the Campaign for Global Road Safety, which I hopes 
makes it clear that it is a pro-driving campaign (or just saying that 
roads are fine and good, but just make them "safer", or simply a lot of 
distracting nonsense) What is really sad is how much support it is 
getting, which could otherwise be promoting real alternatives...

Just listen for the rhetoric, e.g. "technical fixes" etc....
<http://www.makeroadssafe.org/media/Pages/film.aspx>

***

‘Vaccines’ for Roads
http://www.makeroadssafe.org/about/Pages/Issues.aspx

The ‘vaccines’ for the road injury epidemic are available. We know how 
to reduce road deaths, and in most industrialised countries road deaths 
have been cut by at least half over the past 30 years, even as the 
number of vehicles has increased dramatically. Improved road design and 
a focus on pedestrian safety, safer vehicles, motorcycle helmets, seat 
belts, action on drink driving, driver training and licensing and 
tackling speed – this is how road deaths can be reduced. The missing 
ingredient is political commitment to take action.

***

Check this list to see who is missing:
<http://www.makeroadssafe.org/about/Pages/Coalition.aspx>

***
And if things are not clear yet, look at the absolute junk they allow on 
their site....
<http://www.roadierunner.com/>

- T



Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> (The following is a response to a message sent to the New Mobility and 
> Sustran lists... )
>
> Saving one life is a good thing. Saving many is great.
>
> But I am quite dismayed that the sponsors (Besides FIA, also Michelin, 
> BP and the Danish govt. among others) seem to be primarily interested 
> in creating and preserving current and future motorists and 
> motorization, rather than creating mobility options.
>
> Is Michael Schumacher going to promote BRT, cycling.... going slow? Of 
> course not. He is going to say that if you were only like him, skilled 
> and helmeted, the future is bright.
>
> We shouldn't fall for it not should we accept the growing private 
> motorisation of the developing world. Our friends in many fine 
> organisations are promoting alternatives which save lives AND the 
> environment and do lots of other positive things. I don't think that 
> New Mobility or doing mobility differently is a luxury for anyone.
>
> See related links:
>
> <http://www.wear-a-helmet.com/?cat=45>
> <http://www.wear-a-helmet.com/>
> <http://www.asiainjury.org/index.php?m=pro>
> <http://www.fiafoundation.org/news/archive/2008/Pages/PartnershipwithAIPFoundationcombatsSEAsiaroaddeaths.aspx>
>
> - T
>
> Faizan Jawed wrote:
>
>> http://www.bbcworldnews.com/Pages/ProgrammeFeature.aspx?id=43&FeatureId=1110 
>> <http://www.bbcworldnews.com/Pages/ProgrammeFeature.aspx?id=43&FeatureId=1110>
>>
>> *Dying to go to School**
>> *
>>
>> 	
>>
>> Dying to Go to School, Costa Rica 	
>> 	
>> Dying to go to School
>> Film star Michelle Yeoh travels the world to meet young victims, 
>> bereaved mothers and surgeons, to ask why there must be increasing 
>> young deaths from traffic.
>>
>>
>>     Michelle Yeoh...
>>
>> “I think if you look around, this is a community where their homes 
>> and their schools are over the other side.
>>
>> A high speed road, cars not stopping, not slowing down. Nothing to 
>> tell them and to stop them. And these kids, if you look at them they 
>> are going to cross this heavy junction, looking from right, left, 
>> behind, with nothing to help them.
>>
>> And they do this every morning. Somewhere around the world at this 
>> moment sadly there is a child hurt or killed – just because they are 
>> going to school. For God’s sake, we have to stop this.”
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>     Dying to go to School
>>
>>
>> In recent years Michelle Yeoh has emerged as one of the most highly 
>> regarded film actresses in the world. Her international recognition 
>> has come from films like, ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’, the multi award 
>> winning ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ and the James Bond film 
>> ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’.
>> Michelle Yeoh with Ban Ki Moon
>> Better known for her action roles, motorcycle stunts and speeding car 
>> chases, it's a dramatic turn around to accept the role of road safety 
>> global ambassador.
>>
>> Featuring Michael Palin and Michael Schumacher, 'Dying to go to 
>> School' travels from Cape Town to Costa Rica, via India, in an effort 
>> to understand how more than 11 million lives have been lost on the 
>> roads since the year 2000, and why numbers are dramatically climbing.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> 2008 RIBA Norman Foster Traveling Scholar
>> Berkeley Prize 2008 Finalist
>> +91-9820981298
>> phaizan at gmail.com <mailto:phaizan at gmail.com>
>>
>
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