TRAFFIC KILLS TORINO

Traffic Kills is an echo community that " deals with all the factors that are degrading our environment. It aims to improve the habits of people by means of sustainable changes, creating a critical mass able to direct the human progress toward a sustainable development." Using the Meetup platform on line , the community gets organized in local nets allowing the members to share their ideas turning them into concrete initiatives.

In Turin Traffic Kills has indicated the pedestrian crossing in Piazza Statuto as one of the most dangerous points in the city and on 1st March 2008, about 100 people for 10 minutes have simply crossed the dangerous pedestrian strips stopping and congesting the traffic. Intelligent action, totally ignored by the inhabitants of Turin, but not by the Londoners that, inspired from Turin, have repeated the action on December 6.

But it is thanks the Free bus project that Traffic Kills has been able to attract attention and to get a great victory. In the spring 2008 Traffic Kills organized a series of free bus to connect the principals points of the Turin nightclubbing at Saturdays evening, making partly up for the lack of urban public service during night. The project has been financed by the same night places served by the shuttle , giving that way a sure service of mobility to the young people that have made use of the buses.
The great success of the initiative has led the public Corporate body to activate in a short time the GTT Night Buster, a night public transport service with 10 lines, active at the summer weekends of July and August.
Finally a "good news" also for the activists!
The next aqction of Traffic Kills Turin is foreseen for 14th February 2009.

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