Hello John,
This is Great !!! I will plan to attend at the WML - A / C I trust !?
Thanks,
Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: John Brooking <johnbrooking4@xxxxxxxxx>
To: wsmac <wsmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Aug 7, 2018 7:58 am
Subject: [wsmac] Pedestrian webinar this afternoon
This afternoon at 1:30 PM, several national organizations are teaming up to
present a webinar entitled "People are dying on our streets: Why is this
happening and how can we talk about it responsibly?". More information is below.
I have reserved the front upstairs room of Walker Library for a group
viewing, in case people want to see it who do not have a good computer setup to
join from home, and also because viewing it with others could provoke some good
discussion. Hopefully I'll be able to connect my computer to their large screen
to project both the video and audio.
Sorry for the short notice.
More details:
The National Complete Streets Coalition continues our webinar series this month
by investigating the increasing number of pedestrian deaths on our streets with
two journalists who have reported on the topic. Join us each month for a new
topic related to creating safer, healthier, more equitable streets.
Our upcoming webinar, People are dying on our streets: Why is this happening
and how can we talk about it responsibly?, takes place on Tuesday, August 7
from 1:30—2:30 p.m. EDT.
We’ll be joined by journalists Eric D. Lawrence from the Detroit Free Press and
Angie Schmitt from Streetsblog USA for a conversation about why people keep
dying while walking in the U.S.—an issue that continues to grab national
headlines—and how we can talk about both the problem and solutions responsibly.
The webinar will conclude with a Q&A moderated by the Director of the National
Complete Streets Coalition, Emiko Atherton.
This conversation comes as we prepare for our flagship report, Dangerous by
Design 2018, and while the U.S. is seeing an unprecedented increases in
pedestrian deaths. Dangerous by Design 2016 showed that people of color and
older adults are overrepresented among pedestrian deaths. The report also
ranked metro areas by how dangerous they are to pedestrians. You can help
support this research based approach to the problem by donating to Dangerous by
Design 2018.
But not everyone is quite as evidence-based and there has been a lot of
speculation from the media about why more people walking are being killed on
our streets. So how can we be responsible in talking about this problem and
solutions? Our two guests have a few ideas.
Eric D. Lawrence, along with his colleagues at the Detroit Free Press, recently
addressed this rise in pedestrian fatalities with some great, in depth
reporting explaining why SUVs are a leading cause of pedestrian deaths
nationwide.
“Almost 6,000 pedestrians died on or along U.S. roads in 2016 alone—nearly as
many Americans as have died in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002.” –
Eric D. Lawrence, Nathan Bomey and Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press
Angie Schmitt—and Streetsblog more broadly—has addressed the media speculation
head on, often pushing back grossly misleading claims like “drunk walking” or
“distracted walking” to get to the real issue.
“The more press coverage of pedestrians fatalities blames victims, the less
pressure there is to rethink the eight-lane speedways and dangerous SUV designs
that jeopardize people’s lives.” – Angie Schmitt, Streetsblog USA
Please join us for a presentation and conversation about the coverage of the
pedestrian safety issues. This webinar will include closed captioning services.
