Growing Healthier Transportation Choices for RI

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2009 Providence Sustainability Festival Workshops & Activities,

Saturday, September 26th.

Growing Healthier Transportation Choices for RI

James Celenza

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm

Rhode Island Housing

44 Washington Street

2nd Floor – Board Room

Transportation policy is, in effect, health policy—and environmental policy, employment policy, and economic development policy. Our current transportation system prioritizes cars, highways, and roads adversely impacting air quality, injury risk, physical activity levels, climate change.

A transportation policy which prioritizes public transit offers the only option. Transportation is also one of the largest drivers of the built environment, helping to locate where people live, work, and recreate; and whether　communities are connected to or isolated from economic and social opportunities.

James Celenza
is the Director of the RI Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (RICOSH), an occupational and environmental health resource center, and helped organize the New Public Transit Alliance (NuPTA), a coalition to strengthen and expand public transit in RI.
More information and to register www.apeiron.org/slf2009/psf2009/psf_workshops.html

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James Celenza
RICommittee on Occupational Safety & Health
751-2015
jasce...@gmail.com