10 Reasons Why Your Community Needs a Traffic Safety Commission:
- Improves Traffic Safety and Awareness
- Collaborates directly with the community
- Works to educate the public on traffic safety and injury prevention
- Unbiased and independent of government influences
- Promotes new innovating ideas and campaigns
- Lowers cost on region for vehicle related injuries
- Growing relationship with Active Partners
- Power to perform independent polls over controversial ideas
- Fun events to support and attend
- Learning about other community’s traffic safety priorities and action
10 Ways to Start a Traffic Safety Commission:
- Create a team
- Schedule routine monthly meetings
- Receive core government funding
- Work with partners to match every $1 spent on a program by $1 – $3
- Research other community projects in Canada and The United States of America
- Advise appropriate timing of programs (Graduation season, Superbowl, Summer, etc.)
- Use evidence-based approach with research and evaluations
- Create useful tangible material (posters, TV ads)
- Use a website as a hub for community outreach
- Remember Goal: REDUCE TRAFFIC RELATED DEATHS & INJURIES