Civitas Events

Project/City:

CIVITAS MIMOSA - Gdansk

Title:

Safety? Not my problem! - An open workshop from the MIMOSA Consortium

Description:

Safety is the Cindarella of the transport and travel world, especially in relation to public and collective transport. Car manufacturers and airlines are ahead of the game, but public authorities seem less inclined to spend on preventing events that may never happen! Buses travel at the same speed as cars, but with standing passengers; whereas car occupants are strapped to their seats!

Perceptions of safety whilst travelling have become of increasing importance to travellers. Indeed safety issues often act as a barrier to walking on street for even short trips, cycling and using public transport. The loss of revenue, missed health improvement opportunities and positioning the car as the preferred mode of transport is the result, but the real cost to the community is hidden.

The CIVITAS MIMOSA Consortium has decided to confront these issues head-on in an open workshop in Gdansk on 5 June 2009. If you want to hear set-piece presentations on wonderful solutions to problems then this workshop is NOT for you. Instead we want to present and discuss problems, maybe you have some of the same too? Experts will be on hand to advise, and the outcome will be real plans for tackling the issues in cities.

Amongst the topics to be covered will include:

Political will to deal with problems, measures and steps that can be taken
Road safety
Vandalism
Personal safety
Danger from passengers, and ‘strangers’ generally

A final list of the topics and detailed agenda will be published shortly.

The ethos of the day will be honesty, openness and sharing, thinking ‘outside the box’ and developing new and innovative solutions.

We need your input, please come and join us for a day in the beautiful Baltic City of Gdansk.

Safety IS our problem

Location:

Radisson Blu Hotel, 19 Dlug Targ, Gdansk

Date:

05.06.2009 - 05.06.2009
Time: 09:00 - 16:30

Organiser:

City of Gdansk (Host)
Mario Gualdi (ISIS) (Organiser)
john@interactions.ie
Malgorzata Ratkowska
m.ratkowska@gdansk.gda.pl
+48 58 52 68 025