Traffic Tamers
 
Traffic Tamers enables children, parents, residents, city officials and health professionals to work together in making streets safer and more livable for kids, the elderly and residents. Traffic Tamers is a 'self help' program that can be implemented as a stand-alone program or as a supplement to existing programs (city, non-profit, or state/federal governments). The goals of Traffic Tamers are to:

– Trigger a world-wide social revolution in which speeding or driving a car more than necessary is considered just as antisocial as blowing smoke in someone's face.

– Give children and residents cost-free or low-cost tools for slowing traffic around schools and in neighborhood streets.

– Give cities a very low-cost program for getting residents to accept responsibility for their part in traffic problems. This program can be integrated with existing Traffic Calming or Safe Routes to School programs or can be used as a stand-alone program.

– Give cities a very low-cost tool for addressing school traffic issues and for encouraging children to walk to school and other destinations in their neighborhood.

– Give cities new design tools for taming traffic that are cheaper and more effective than traditional traffic calming.

Help us evolve Traffic Tamers

For more information, and to help us evolve the Traffic Tamers Program, download the Traffic Tamers Story (17 page pdf file).