Topic: Pedestrians

Mexico made safe mobility a human right – here’s how its streets can become safer

Mexico became the first nation to declare access to safe mobility a human right in 2020 and two years later passed the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety to protect people, reduce collisions and promote sustainable modes...Read more

12-06-2024|Comment|author: WRI Center for Sustainable Cities

We all have to walk across roads – why aren’t pedestrians a focus of road safety?

In May 2021 a B-double truck mounted a kerb when turning a corner in Melbourne, injuring five pedestrians. In February 2020 a drunk driver drove onto a footpath in Sydney, killing four children and injuring...Read more

14-06-2021|Comment|author: The Conversation Global Perspectives

EU countries moving towards ‘pedestrian-friendly’ future

Children who walk or cycle to school in Berlin will benefit from a newly-passed pedestrian law in the city designed to shift the priority away from cars and towards the interests of vulnerable road users.Read more

03-03-2021|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

School run: cutting car use will take much more than educating children and parents

As the summer holidays come to an end and children return to school following lockdown, there couldn’t be a better time for us to consider the school commute.Read more

26-08-2020|Comment|author: Rob Noonan

Photo by Dietmut Teijgeman-Hansen/Flickr

Cities have metabolisms too

Cities like Rotterdam and İzmir are implementing the urban metabolic approach, focusing on sustainable infrastructure, connectivity and efficiency. These cities work to Streamline Resource Use at a Civic Level. From space, cities can look like microscopic...Read more

04-12-2018|Comment|author: Hande Dönmez and Cigdem Cörek Öztaş