Be part of a civil society movement showing the reality of our people’s daily journeys. Strengthen your advocacy as part of a global movement challenging how our streets are designed and for who. Every voice adds to and amplifies the power of our message globally and locally.
In our recent #CommitToAct campaign, road safety advocates did 118 Mobility Snapshots around the world. They are now using them to advocate for safer streets for pedestrians and other road users.
It’s easy to join the Mobility Snapshot initiative. Taking part will help you to advocate for road safety interventions that have been proven to save lives, backed with local data.
A Mobility Snapshot is data collected at a specific intersection in your local community. Using tools that will be provided closer to the campaign date, you will analyze how many people are using the intersection and whether life-saving road safety interventions are in place to protect those people.
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We have accepted unsafe and unsustainable streets as normal and inevitable.
Yet, we know the proven, cost-efficient solutions to fix them.
We need to shine a light, using data to show the reality of people’s journeys to school, work, and shopping.
SAFE MOBILITY IS OUR RIGHT
Pedestrians are among the most at-risk and overlooked road users on our streets. Yet, we are all pedestrians at some time in our daily journeys.
Walking is healthy, sustainable, equitable, and free. When safe, it is an answer to many of society’s ills.
We know the road safety implementations that can keep pedestrians safe and make their journeys more comfortable and less stressful.
Intersections are particularly unsafe for pedestrians. It’s where a lot of crashes occur.
Interventions that protect pedestrians and other road users at intersections are well-proven. They include 30 km/h zones, pedestrian facilities, including footpaths and pedestrian crossings, and traffic calming, such as speed bumps. Find out about the evidence base for these interventions in our Accountability Toolkit.
These interventions are simple and cost-effective, especially in relation to the money and resources that are being spent building and maintaining unsafe roads.
Investing in 30 km/h, pedestrian facilities, and traffic calming saves lives. It also has many other benefits. When people can walk safely, it can improve health, support climate targets, and make societies fairer for those who cannot afford a private vehicle. Safe roads make our communities more livable.
Road safety interventions like these have an excellent return on investment. iRAP estimates that worldwide for every US$ spent on road infrastructure like these interventions, has a US$8 return on investment through reduced health and insurance costs, loss of income and more. Check out their Safety Insights Explorer.
That’s why we are doing the Mobility Snapshots: to identify those interventions and advocate for change.
We want communities to know that their unsafety is unacceptable and demand the right interventions using data and evidence.
We want decision makers to ensure every person’s right to safe mobility and to act on evidence to protect people.
