Rural and Human Services Coordinated Transportation Workshop: August 23, 2010
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mattmontgomery at: 7/23/2010 |
Rural and Human Services Coordinated Transportation Workshop
“Rural and Human Services Transportation Coordination” legislation in Georgia passed at the 2010 Session of the General Assembly. As in a number of states, it is now required that agencies work together to deliver transportation in a coordinated, efficient manner to all Georgians.
This much-needed legislation opens up tremendous opportunities for many Georgians who are in need of transportation service, and for governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, and businesses meeting the transportation needs of Georgians. You and your agency or business need to know what is involved and at stake as Georgia prepares to launch this new law.
The Workshop
The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, Strategic Highway Safety Plan, Older Driver Task Force; and the Georgia Council on Aging, in partnership with the Department of Community Health; the Department of Human Services, Division of Aging Services are sponsoring a one-day Workshop on the new law. The Workshop will bring together numerous experts on this topic.
When
Monday, August 23, 2010
Where
The Methodist Home for Children and Youth,
The Rumford Center
304 Pierce Avenue
Macon, GA 31204
Time
Registration begins at 8:00 AM, and the Workshop ends at 4:30 PM.
Registration
$20.00 Registration Fee, which includes Continental Breakfast and Lunch.
Who is involved - Who needs to be there?
Interested stakeholders from the aging community and disability community; the business community; key members of the General Assembly who helped pass the new law; state agency heads and key staff of the agencies involved in coordination; counties and cities and staff; transit providers; regional commissions. The Workshop will be of interest to policy staff and elected officials charged with helping their constituents meet their transportation needs, planners, regional commission staff and officials, livable community advocates, and the general public.
Registration
You can send your $20 registration fee to:
Georgia for a Lifetime, Inc.
c/o Council on Aging
2 Peachtree Street, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30303-3142
Directions to the Workshop
The Methodist Home for Children and Youth,
The Rumford Center
304 Pierce Avenue
Macon, GA 31204
From Atlanta:
- Travel south on I-75 to the Pierce Avenue Exit #167.
- At the end of the exit ramp, turn left onto Riverside Drive and go to the first traffic light.
- Turn right onto Pierce Avenue and go up the hill.
- After you pass through the 1st traffic light (Ingleside Ave.), the Methodist Home is on the right.
- The Rumford Center is the large red brick multi-story building straight ahead.
- Parking is available behind and in front of The Center.
From South of Macon:
- Travel north on I-75 to the Pierce Avenue Exit #167.
- Go straight through the traffic light at the bottom of the ramp and follow Pierce Avenue up the hill.
- After you pass through the 1st traffic light (Ingleside Ave.), the Methodist Home is on the right.
- The Rumford Center is the large red brick multi-story building straight ahead.
- Parking is available behind and in front of The Center.
From Savannah:
- Take I-16 West to I-75 South Exit#1.
- Take the 1st exit, Hardeman Ave./Forsyth St. Exit #164.
- At the traffic light, turn right.
- Go to the 6th traffic light (approximately 1.3 miles) and turn right onto Pierce Avenue.
- About 0.4 miles down, the Methodist Home is on the left at the bottom of the hill.
- The Rumford Center is the large red brick multi-story building straight ahead.
- Parking is available behind and in front of The Center.
TO REGISTER ONLINE AND TO LEARN MORE, GO TO:
HTTP://WWW.GAHIGHWAYSAFETY.ORG/OLDERDRIVERTASKFORCE
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GOHS Director Bob Dallas on NPR
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mattmontgomery at: 7/1/2010 |
GOHS DIRECTOR BOB DALLAS ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S MORNING EDITION: STATES BAN TEXTING WHILE DRIVING, BUT DO BANS WORK?
On July 1, 2010, Georgia instituted two new laws to ban all texting while driving and the use of cell phones by teens while driving. GOHS Director Bob Dallas was interviewed by National Public Radio's Morning Edition program on the new laws and why they will save the lives of countless Georgia drivers and passengers.
To view the NPR interview, click on:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128220944
To learn more about the new laws, click on:
http://www.gahighwaysafety.org/textingsafety
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: PUT DOWN THE PHONE AND BUCKLE UP IN THE TRUCK
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mattmontgomery at: 6/11/2010 |
SUMMER DRIVERS: NEW LAWS SAY
“PUT DOWN THE PHONE AND BUCKLE UP IN THE TRUCK”
Dear Editor,
Just in time to save lives during the busy summer holiday travel period, Governor Sonny Perdue has signed three highway safety measures that will become the rules of the road on Georgia’s streets and interstates: the teen cell phone use while driving ban, the all driver texting while driving ban, and the pickup truck safety belt law.
The state legislature, working with state and local law enforcement agencies and public safety advocates, came together to develop these life saving initiatives. This coordinated effort culminated in two bills prohibiting texting while driving and another requiring pickup truck occupants to buckle up. All three bills were passed during Georgia’s 2010 legislative session and then signed into law by Governor Perdue.
The Teen Cell Phone Driving Ban prohibits drivers under the age of 18 with a Class D license from talking on cell phones AND texting while driving. Taking effect on July 1st, penalties under this new law include a $150 fine and one point on the driver’s license. In addition, monetary fines will be doubled for teen drivers proven to have violated the law at the time of a traffic crash.
The Texting While Driving Ban, which also goes into effect on July 1, applies to all drivers 18 and older who possess a Class C driver’s license. Under this new law, drivers cannot write, send or read a text message, email or use the internet on any wireless device while driving. Penalties under this new law also include a $150 fine and one point on the driver’s license.
The Pickup Truck Safety Belt law is in effect since it was signed by Governor Perdue on June 3rd. The new law requires both drivers and passengers of pickup trucks to buckle-up in their vehicles except for certain farming exemptions. Citations under the new law will carry the same penalties as current safety belt violations.
“Making Georgia Safer” has been a cornerstone commitment from Governor Sonny Perdue to the people of Georgia. During his terms of office, Georgia has enacted traffic safety measures that increased funding for trauma care, closed loopholes in DUI laws, required the use of child booster seats, funded driver education, slowed excessive speeding with the ground breaking Super Speeder Law, implemented the Move Over Law and expanded the Steer It and Clear It law. The lineup and diversity of groups united in the task of keeping Georgians alive on our roadways is impressive: from local public health districts and schools on every level, to community organizations such as MADD, Safe Kids, AARP and PEDS. It included law enforcement leaders across the state from Georgia State Patrol to Police Chiefs to Sheriffs. Together their message was clear: Too many lives are being lost unnecessarily on our roads. And their goal was the same: “Together we can stop these daily tragedies.”
Most importantly, Georgia’s motoring public has taken the lead to improve their driving behavior by embracing these laws and engaging in other driving best practices. Georgians understand the benefits of buckling up, slowing down and not drinking and driving. By engaging in these simple steps and taking care to share the road with pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcycles, Georgia drivers are making sure that their families, friends and neighbors are making it home safely every day and night.
Our state highway safety data show these measures have produced impressive results: Georgia has reduced its yearly average crash deaths from over 1,600 to fewer than 1,300 in 2009 and the numbers have continued to decline in 2010. On average, that’s about one more Georgian per day who will go home safe and secure to family members instead of that family suffering the heartbreak of a traffic death.
And that’s also what we hope these newest safety laws will continue to do: save lives on Georgia roadways. Because it’s not about writing tickets and it’s not about generating revenue; it’s about saving lives!
For more information and the exact wording of each of these new laws visit us at www.gahighwaysafety.org.
Bob Dallas
Bob Dallas, Director
Georgia Governor's Office of Highway Safety
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Pick-Up the Habit: Buckle Up in Your Truck
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mattmontgomery at: 6/9/2010 |
Pick-Up The Habit! New Law Says “Buckle-Up in Your Truck!”
TOUGHER SAFETY BELT LAW IN TIME TO SAVE LIVES THIS SUMMER
(ATLANTA) Here’s a helpful hint for all Georgia drivers to write a reminder with their July Fourth party invites… It’s time to buckle-up in pickup trucks! By this July 4th weekend, everyone should know the news about the new state pickup truck safety belt law now in effect in Georgia. Simply stated, the new law says, if you’re in a truck, just buckle-up. Although traffic enforcement officers will be participating in the statewide Operation Zero Tolerance DUI crackdown campaign known as “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” during the July 4th holiday travel period, they’ll also be concentrating on writing tickets for all unbelted pickup truck drivers and passengers.
Why now? Well, the facts are clear. Nearly HALF the fatality passenger vehicle crashes in Georgia’s rural areas involve light pickup trucks! AND in those fatal crashes, 75-percent of the dead are unrestrained. Traffic crashes, injuries, and fatalities cost Georgia more than $7.8 billion and result in more than 1,500 crash deaths every year. Nearly a hundred of these lives could be saved without spending another dime of your taxes if people in pickup trucks simply buckled-up at the same rate as folks in other passenger vehicles. Georgia’s new pickup truck law will effectively increase safety belt usage and help save lives here too.
What about farmers? Under the provisions of this new law, there is zero impact to any agricultural roadway user. The new pickup truck belt law was written so that it included an exemption for every conceivable agricultural use in the state.
Does this law unfairly target rural communities? In a word… NO. Buckling-up in your pickup truck is not an issue of urban-versus-rural or agriculture-versus-industry. It’s simply an issue of saving lives of some of our most productive citizens.
The rural road crash death rate in Georgia is TWICE that of urban areas! And it’s needlessly been that way for far too long. This is primarily due to the fact that pickup truck occupants fail to use their seatbelts at a rate nearly 15-percent less than drivers in other passenger vehicles.
But when worn correctly, seatbelts are PROVEN to reduce the risk of fatal injury to front-seat light truck occupants by 60-percent and as much as 80-percent in the event of a rollover crash. Simply buckling your seatbelt can reduce medical and legal expenses, lost wages, lost productivity, high insurance rates and other burdensome crash costs that every other citizen is unfairly forced to share. While we know these monetary costs alone are staggering, the biggest beneficiaries of seatbelt use are the families and loved ones of pickup truck occupants who will not be killed or severely injured in a crash. And it’s all because of drivers who simply invested three seconds of their trip time to secure their safety belts.
Just remember that with this new law, THERE ARE NO MORE WARNINGS AND NO MORE EXCUSES! No matter what you drive or where you drive in Georgia, if you don’t click it, expect a ticket.
For more information on Georgia’s new pickup truck safety belt law, visit www.gahighwaysafety.org. Contact your local law enforcement agency for information about seatbelt and DUI enforcement road checks, patrols and campaign activities in your community.
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NEW LAWS FOR JULY 1ST: TEXTING BAN/TEEN CELL PHONE BAN
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mattmontgomery at: 6/4/2010 |
AJC/ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY ON TEXTING BAN AND TEEN CELL PHONE BAN
Georgia drivers soon won't be allowed to text while driving and teens will be prohibited from using their cell phones while behind the wheel.
Governor Sonny Perdue signed two new laws on Friday targeting dangerous driving habits that have led to fatal wrecks across the state.
He had hinted that he would veto the bill for adults but said Friday he agreed to sign it only after lawmakers promised to fix problems in the legislation next year. Perdue said he is concerned the current language could lead to more drivers being charged with vehicular homicide and would put too much of a burden on police to enforce.
Under the laws, which take effect July 1, a violation leads to a $150 fine and one point on the driver's license.
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