Monday 17 February 2025
In the lead up to the 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety (Ministerial Conference) in Marrakech, Morocco, which starts tomorrow, NGOs have been gathering local, street-level data to shine a light on the risks faced by pedestrians on their daily journeys. These data are published today in a new report from the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety (the Alliance): Mobility Snapshots: using local data to turn dangerous realities into safe, people-centered streets.
The report draws together 118 ‘Mobility Snapshots’ from 44 countries, each assessing an intersection by counting the number of pedestrians using it, and whether simple but life-saving interventions such as 30 km/h speed limits, pedestrian crossings and footpaths, and speed calming are present or lacking.
The Mobility Snapshot data are being used by NGOs to advocate with their authorities for safer streets. Improvements, including lower speed limits, crossings, and footpaths. Recommendations have already been implemented at several Mobility Snapshot intersections.
The Mobility Snapshot report will be launched at the Alliance’s NGO Symposium, held at the Palais de Congres, Marrakech, this afternoon. Ministerial Conference delegates are welcome to attend.
Attendees at the Ministerial Conference can also learn more about the Snapshots at the Alliance’s booth at the Conference exhibition on Avenue Moulay el Hassan. The Alliance will also host a series of short interactive discussions where NGOs will describe what it is like to be a pedestrian at their Mobility Snapshot intersection and what needs to be done, or what has already been achieved, to make it safe.
Lotte Brondum, the Alliance’s Executive Director said, “We have accepted unsafe and unsustainable streets as normal, despite knowing the proven, cost-effective solutions to fix them. At the Ministerial Conference, we urge policy makers to commit to evidence-based interventions, backed with the necessary financing and to involve NGOs, who spotlight the realities of people’s journeys, mobilize communities, advocate for solutions, and push for accountability. This is how we create safer streets and drive progress toward halving road deaths and injuries by 2030.”
