The 6th Global Road Safety Week closed with significant achievements

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Created: Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:08
6th United Nations Global Road Safety Week 
 
Luchemos por la Vida developed several activities for the 30 km/h reduction on streets
 
22 Argentine cities have already accepted the proposal
 
 
     On the occasion of the 6th Global Road Safety Week, #StreetsforLife, promoted by the United Nations from May 17 to 23, 2021, Luchemos por la Vida in association with Madres del Dolor, assumed the promotion of this week and its main objective, to reduce the speed to 30 km/h on the streets, to reduce deaths and generate safer, greener and more livable cities. For this purpose, they carried out an intense activity in the prior weeks to it, achieving the enthusiastic support of many cities and local NGOs, which included a walk in front of the Buenos Aires City Obelisco, on May 17, as the opening activity of the Week, to make this premise visible and share it with motorists and passers-by, an international virtual colloquium on May 18 with the participation of over 100 people and wide dissemination of the proposal in the mass media and social networks, with spots and radio and television interviews.
 
 
     Letters were sent to over 700 municipalities and NGOs holding virtual meetings, and some face-to-face meetings, with national authorities, such as the National Road Safety Agency and others with 22 cities and several NGOs in Argentina. So far, 22 cities have already expressed their interest in participating in the 6th Week and many have made progress by declaring this 6th Global Week of interest and committing to legislate speed reduction in the streets of their cities.
 
 
 
     The response obtained so far was excellent, both at the national level, with the endorsement of the National Road Safety Agency and its press release inviting the cities of the country to adhere to the 30 km/h reduction and its support for the development of spots for a joint awareness campaign (in spanish) for social networks, as well as the important adhesion of many cities with concrete commitments to the 6th Global Week and its goals, many of them and their legislators have already implemented the mechanisms to legislate the 30 km/h reduction, and others have already started to apply the reduction in delimited areas of their cities.
 
     The important support received for the Streets for Life initiative and its speed reduction is an enormous incentive to continue working for it, in spite of this difficult moment, when the planet is affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and to think that the goals of the new Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2030 can be achieved in Argentina and the world, and reduce by half the deaths caused by the road pandemic.