On our streets, worldwide, where we walk, play and live, we call for action on speed. Low speed, liveable streets are essential and urgent.
Urgent because low speeds save lives.
Urgent for public health, by making walking and cycling safer and more accessible, enabling and encouraging healthy lifestyles. Liveable streets are more crucial than ever as we respond to COVID-19.
Urgent for the Global Goals and for our climate, as a key that unlocks a virtuous cycle of zero carbon active travel, shifting from car dependence, enabling thriving public transportation, cleaner air and lower CO2 emissions.
Urgent for social and racial equity, as it is lower income and minority communities who are most exposed to high-speed traffic, and the road danger, environmental hazard and social exclusion it causes. Urgent for the rights of people with disabilities; for the elderly; for all who are vulnerable.
Urgent for our children and youth, and vital for their wellbeing. They are most at risk on the streets where they live, play and travel to school. Every day 3000 children and young people are killed or seriously injured on the world’s roads. A child hit by a car at 30 km/h (20 mph) can survive. Hit at 80 km/h (50 mph), most will die. Speed kills.
The 2020 Stockholm Declaration, adopted by governments worldwide, calls for a focus on liveable streets and, in line with available evidence, a maximum road travel speed of 30 km/h where vulnerable road users and vehicles mix. Commitment to this approach must be at the forefront of the new Decade of Action for Road Safety to achieve the Global Goals.
Now is the time to urgently deliver on this call to action by reducing, designing and enforcing traffic speeds that are safe for everyone, everywhere, prioritising low speed streets in all residential areas and near schools.
Streets for health. Streets for climate. Streets for people. We must act together to create #StreetsForLife.
Campaign Supported by
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO) • Henrietta H. Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF • Achim Steiner, Administrator, UN Development Programme • Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme • Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director, UN Human Settlements Programme • H.E. Volkan Bozkir, President, UN General Assembly • Jean Todt, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety and FIA President • Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN Secretary General's Envoy on Youth • Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Europe • Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees • Her Serene Highness Princess Charlène of Monaco • Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, Minister of Infrastructure, Brazil • Ángela María Orozco Gómez, Minister of Transport, Colombia • Dr Amina Mohamed, Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Media and Culture, Kenya • James Wainaina Macharia, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Kenya • Tomas Eneroth, Minister for Infrastructure, Sweden • H.E. Dr Mohamed Al-Hassan, Permanent Representative of the Sultanate of Oman to the UN • Mohammed Adjei Sowah, Mayor of Accra, Ghana • Ted Wheeler, Mayor of Portland, Oregon, US • Congressman Earl Blumenauer, US House of Representatives • Jagan Chapagain, Secretary General & CEO, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies • Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen, Chairman, FIA Foundation • Zoleka Mandela, Global Ambassador, Child Health Initiative • Janette Sadik-Khan, Chair, National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) • Michelle Yeoh, Actor & UN Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador for the Global Goals • Lord Jack McConnell of Glenscorrodale, Co-Chair, UK Parliament All Party Group on the SDGs • Georges C. Benjamin MD MACP, Executive Director, American Public Health Association • Ellen J. MacKenzie PhD, Dean, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health • Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, President & CEO, International Peace Institute • Aleksander Čeferin, President, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) • Lord Sebastian Coe, President, World Athletics • David Lappartient, President, Union Cycliste Internationale • Inger Ashing, CEO, Save the Children International • Kevin Watkins, CEO, Save the Children UK • Etienne Krug, Director, Social Determinants of Health, WHO • Carlos Slim Domit, Chairman of the Board, Grupo Carso • Felipe Calderón, Former President of Mexico • Irina Bokova, Former Director General of UNESCO • Luis Alberto Moreno, Former President, Inter-American Development Bank • Denis Coderre, Former Mayor of Montréal, Canada • Peter Thomas Drennan, Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security • Erin Clift, Chief Marketing Officer, Waze • Lorraine M. Martin, President & CEO, National Safety Council, US • Mark Del Monte, CEO/Executive Vice President, American Academy of Pediatrics • George Njao, Director General, National Transport & Safety Authority, Kenya • Jonathan Adkins, Executive Director, Governors Highway Safety Association, US • Floor Lieshout, Director, YOURS: Youth for Road Safety • Ani Dasgupta, Global Director, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities • Lotte Brondum, Executive Director, Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety • Mary Creagh, CEO, Living Streets • Danny Harris, Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives • Saul Billingsley, Executive Director, FIA Foundation • Cecilia Vaca-Jones, Executive Director, Bernard Van Leer Foundation • Jeffrey Paniati, Executive Director & CEO, Institute of Transportation Engineers • Corinne Kisner, Executive Director, NACTO • José Luis Castro, President and CEO, Vital Strategies • David Davies, Director, UK Parliamentary Advisory Committee on Transport Safety • Gary Smith, President, Child Injury Prevention Alliance • Catherine McCollough, Executive Director, Intelligent Car Coalition • Jeannot Mersch, President, European Federation of Road Traffic Victims • Bella Dinh Zarr, Former Vice Chairman, US National Transportation Safety Board • Mirjam Sidik, CEO, Asia Injury Prevention Foundation • Jeffrey Witte, Executive Director, Amend • Maruxa Cardama, Secretary General, SLOCAT Partnership • Emma MacLennan, Executive Director, Eastern Alliance for Safe & Sustainable Transport • Rod King MBE, Founder, 20’s Plenty for Us • Bright Oywaya, Executive Director, ASIRT Kenya • David Ward, President & CEO, Towards Zero Foundation • Rob McInerney, CEO, International Road Assessment Programme • Dave Cliff, CEO, Global Road Safety Partnership • Nani Rodriguez, President, Fundación Gonzalo Rodriguez • Bronwen Thornton, CEO, Walk21 • Enrique Peñalosa, Former Mayor of Bogota • Kristeena Montieth, Youth Power Panel, Restless Development • Hartwig Schaffer, Vice President South Asia, World Bank • Eduardo Paes, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro • Frederico de Moura Carneiro, Director, Brazilian National Road Safety Agency • Dan Chen, President, 3M Transportation Safety Division • Dr Amani Abou-Zeid, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, African Union Commission (AUC) • Maurice Lévy, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Publicis Groupe • Jorge Viegas, President, Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme • Perry Maddox, CEO, Restless Development • Dr Carissa F. Etienne, Director, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) • Jean-Charles Decaux, Co-CEO, JCDecaux • Gérard Saillant, President, Brain & Spine Institute (ICM) • Dagmawit Moges, Minister for Transport, Ethiopia • Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris • Heather Thompson, CEO, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) • Thomas Bach, President, International Olympic Committee • Ahmad Alhendawi, Secretary-General, World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) • Plus many more people around the world who believe in activism for safe and healthy streets…
