Break The Gridlock!

Break the Gridlock : Overcoming Car Dependency was our inaugural conference that brought together citizen activists, transportation advocates, planners and policy makers in Chicago on Sunday September 10th, 2000. Inspirational speakers set the stage for action and small group activities set the agenda which we continue today.

Speakers:

• Jane Holtz Kay is the author of Asphalt Nation, and the architecture and planning critic for the Nation
• Charles Komanoff is director of Right of Way, a transportation activist group in New York City
• Ben Gomberg currently serves as Chicago's bicycle program coordiantor and his brother...
• Tooker Gomberg is a rabble-rousing transit activist in Toronto
• Katie Alvord is the author of Divorce Your Car