Let It Ride
Celebrating 20 Years of Service
What’s New
at the PTMA?
If you haven’t visited our website
lately, you may want to go and take a
look.AWe have done some refreshing
and now have our Twitter feed
included along with other new
options. The site is easier to read
and includes new photographs.
Coming soon will be a new photo
gallery.
For membership year, 2013-2014,
your invoices will be arriving through
email. This provides us with the
opportunity to get your invoice in
the most efficient manner possible
and of course, stay green while doing
so.
In the next few months, the PTMA
will select a consultant to assist us in
developing a five year Strategic Plan.
When going through this process, we
will need the assistance of our
valuable members – so stayed tuned
as we move through this exciting
q
process.
Community Travel Training events
will begin in November and continue
through December. If you know
someone that would like to learn
how to use transit, they can join the
PTMA at the Lansdale Library on
November 7th from 6:30 pm to 7:30
pm to experience the SEPTA bus. If
someone is interested in learning
how to use the train, the PTMA will
sponsor a trip on December 9th
meeting at the Lansdale Train Station
at 9:30 am. All trainings are FREE
but participants should register in
advance by calling the toll free
Mobility Hotline at 866-507-4857.
Can They Do It?
North MontCo Technical HS
Student Showing Off Seat Belt
Challenge Tee-Shirt
Twenty–nine percent of the
students driving at North MontCo
Technical High School do not
wear their seat belts when they are
driving. So at a recent assembly,
the PTMA challenged over 100
students to improve that number.
With the assistance of Officer
Dave
Dunlap
from
the
Montgomery Township Police
Department, the students viewed
some frightening videos that
demonstrated how dangerous it is
not to wear your seat belt. After
discussions on why students do
not wear seat belts, they were
challenged to improve their usage.
In the next few weeks, the PTMA
will return to the school to do an
unannounced count on the
number of drivers wearing seat
belts. Stay tuned to see if they can
improve!
Weekly Holiday Safety Alerts
will begin the week of November
25th. These Alerts provide
information on how to have a
safe holiday no matter how you
travel.
They are great for
sharing – make sure you are
signed up to receive them!
PTMA’s Monthly
News Brief
Issue 62
November 1, 2013
Day Light Saving
Time Ends This
Weekend – Beware!
The first week of driving after
Daylight Savings Time ends is
the most dangerous because
people have not adjusted to
driving in the dark. Here are
some tips to keep in mind.
Use their headlights when dusk
arrive and use the night setting
on your rearview mirror to avoid
glare from headlights.
Be courteous with your high
beams. Switch them over as
oncoming vehicles approach.
Drive cautiously. Be alert and
watchful for bicyclists and
pedestrians on the roadside, as
well as at crosswalks.
Supervise small children as
they enter and exit the vehicle,
especially when parking on a
street. Make them use a
curbside door away from
traffic.
Make
sure
to
remove
sunglasses at dusk — drivers
often forget they are wearing
them.
Keep your eyes moving from
side to side while driving
instead of focusing on the
center line or the road ahead.
This keeps your eyes adjusted
to the dark and helps avoid
"highway hypnosis" .
Nighttime motorists should
make sure their safety kit