Strong Towns President and Founder Charles Marohn will be Wichita, Kansas, on March 4, 2025, to present at the 30th Annual Kansas Department of Transportation’s Transportation Safety Conference.

LOCATION: Hyatt Regency |  DATE: March 4, 2025  |  TIME: 9:15 a.m. CST

We all want to live in a place where the transportation system serves residents. The costs of the North American transportation system are too high — not only in money but also in time, safety and quality of life. No one should have to live in a community where transportation gets worse while costing more. It’s unwise and unfair to be wasting precious time and resources on something this bad.

Charles Marohn explains why the conventional approach to traffic engineering is making people less safe, bankrupting towns and cities, destroying the fabric of communities, and actually worsening the problems (like congestion) that engineers set out to solve.

Transportation can be fixed — and he’ll explain why fixing it will involve not only engineers but also local residents and officials who have become effective and empowered advocates, connected with others to make real change.