Low speed are essential to #MakeWalkingSafe & #MakeCyclingSafe

🇬🇪 In Georgia, this message has been heard with the National Road Safety Strategy 2024-2025 officially recommending 30km/h speed limits around schools! 👏

More: www.easst.co.uk/30km-h-schoo...

Thanks to @fiafoundation.bsky.social

Thanks to @fiafoundation.bsky.social‬ for the invite to yesterday's Transatlantic Transportation #Decarbonization Summit. Our founder Jemima spoke about the #Health impact of transport pollution and how grassroots campaigns are real allies in the movement to decarbonise. @cleanairfund.bsky.social‬

U.S. is “the high-income country with the highest road traffic fatality rate, and we just accept that.” - Natalie Draisin @fiafoundation.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-p...

#motornormativity #CarCulture #WindshieldBias #RoadSafety #transit #transportation #VisionZero

NGOs brought nonstandard helmets from their countries to the Alliance booth at the Ministerial Conference. Today we took them to the test lab to see if they protect riders. Thank you to @fiafoundation.bsky.social  for supporting the testing & Terry Smith, Galeatus for technical expertise.

In #29 of Zag’s Women Making Moves series, FIA Foundation North America Director Natalie Draisin explains why sustainability is synonymous with road safety and what’s key to achieving the UN goal of halving road deaths and injuries by 2030.

Read more: zagdaily.com/featured/nat...

Big thanks to everyone who joined our multi-stakeholder workshop last week in London! Co-organised by SLOCAT, UK FCDO and the Canadian IDRC, in collaboration with @fiafoundation.bsky.social, Kühne Climate Center & @worldresources.bsky.social

Also check out the ongoing UN activities in preparation of the UN Implementation Plan of this UN Decade!

Thanks again to co-organisers and collaborators for the valuable discussions and inputs. (IDRC, FCDO, Kühne Climate Center @worldresources.bsky.social l @fiafoundation.bsky.social)

#BikeandRolltoSchoolDay is 3 weeks away! Join us!!
cc @thehillishome.bsky.social @thedailyrider.bsky.social @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @hillragdc.bsky.social @hillfamilybiking.org @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social @dcpublicschools.bsky.social @fiafoundation.bsky.social @freedcproject.bsky.social

Good news from @streetsforall.org: AB 981 @AsmMikeGipson ✅ PASSED ASSEMBLY PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE requiring speed limiters for people w/ repeat charges for reckless driving, excessive speed, etc. #StopSuperSpeeders @fam4safestreets.bsky.social @nacto.bsky.social @fiafoundation.bsky.social

Air pollution is a major issue in cities globally.

The Real Urban Emissions Initiative (TRUE) by @fiafoundation.bsky.social is supporting cities to improve urban air quality by using remote sensing to inform policymakers about emission levels.

Learn more: bit.ly/4cavGf9

#AirPollution

Learn about successful efforts to unlock #RoadSafety funding in @fiafoundation.bsky.social Life Support report. Road traffic injury prevention can no longer be an isolated issue; it must be seen as an integral part of the sustainability and climate agendas 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/zsyeaqpizi

Congratulations to the 2024 Road Safety Reporting Contest winners! José Pedro Soares Martins of 🇧🇷, Dipak Dash of 🇮🇳, Martha Guillén of 🇲🇽, Dhanu Bishwakarma of 🇳🇵& Hussaini Umar of 🇳🇬. Read more about their winning stories: www.icfj.org/news/journal... @fiafoundation.bsky.social @who.int

@wrirosscities.bsky.social @giz.de @itfglobalunion.bsky.social @fiafoundation.bsky.social @slocat.net @keishamayuga.bsky.social

🌍 The Safe African Helmets Initiative (SAHI) Workshop is live in Kigali!

Day 1 is packed with insights on helmet safety, standards and legislation from across the region.

Watch Programmes Director Agnieszka Krasnolucka-Hickman on the motorcycle safety challenges:

🇲🇩 Moldova has been awarded the Vision Zero for Youth International Leadership Award
🏆 The award was presented to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Maldova Automobile Club for advocacy and action for new low-speed legislation
www.fiafoundation.org/news/moldova...

🚨 New project!

🇹🇳 Tunisian NGO Les Ambassadeurs de la Sécurité Routière (ASR) has launched a new initiative to implement and enforce 30km/h speed limits around schools, supported by the FIA Foundation though the Child Health Initiative Advocacy Hub.

Read more:
www.fiafoundation.org/news/tunisia...