Global Road Safety Week

Luchemos por la Vida carried out activities for the reduction to 30 km/h on streets

Over 30 argentine cities have already accepted the proposal

     In this Global Week for Road Safety, #StreetsforLife, #CallesparalaVida #CommitToAct, from May 16 to 22, 2022, Luchemos por la Vida, promoted its main initiative, to reduce the speed to 30 km / h on the streets, to decrease deaths and generate safer, greener and more livable cities. To this end, together with Madres del Dolor, carried out an intensive activity in the weeks leading up to it, achieving the enthusiastic support of many cities and NGOs in Argentina. During the week, a walk was held in front of the National Congress, in the City of Buenos Aires, on May 20, to make this premise visible and raise awareness among motorists and passers-by, and the law project for the reduction to 30 km/h on streets was presented to the President of the Chamber of Representatives of the Nation, Sergio Massa, with the support of several NGOs and traffic victims' relatives. The Ministers of Transportation of the Nation, Alexis Guerrera, and of the Province of Buenos Aires, Jorge D'Onofrio, attended the event.

      The week, its objective and activities were widely disseminated in mass media and social networks, with spots and radio and television interviews, such as the Télam News Agency; TN Todo Noticias Channel; Public TV Channel; Telefé News Channel from Santa Fe; Public TV from Tierra del Fuego; Buenos Aires City Channel; Channel 13 from Río Cuarto, Córdoba; Channel 9 Litoral from Paraná, Entre Ríos; Radio Mitre AM 790 from Buenos Aires City; El1 Digital Newsand Radio Mitre from Córdoba, among others.

           Information and newsletters were sent to over 700 municipalities, NGOs and educators, holding virtual meetings, and some face-to-face meetings, with national, provincial and municipal authorities, and several NGOs in Argentina. Among them, with the Buenos Aires City Secretary of Transportation Manuela López Menéndez, the Mayor of San Isidro, Province of Buenos Aires, Gustavo Posse, the Secretary of Mobility of Rosario, Province of Santa Fe, Nerina Manganelli, Councilors of the provinces of La Pampa and Chubut, the National Deputy Waldo Wolff, among others. So far, over 30 cities have already expressed their interest in the proposal, and many of them have made progress by declaring this Global Week of interest and committing to passing legislation to reduce speed on their city streets.

     The significant support received for the Streets for Life initiative and its speed reduction is an enormous incentive to continue working for it, and to think that the goals of the new Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 can be achieved in Argentina and the world, and reduce by half the deaths caused by the traffic pandemic.

 Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province    Dolavon, Chubut Province      Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province