Safe and Active Mobility
Walkable, cycle-friendly neighborhoods top the list of what people say they want and need from their cities. Safe and active mobility is a public health strategy that need to be prioritized, not an afterthought.
As part of their work with the Partnership for Healthy Cities, urban centers are promoting safe and active mobility by:
Developing and implementing street/ sidewalk design standards
Implementing and scaling connected networks for walking and cycling
Establishing, implementing and scaling safe routes to schools
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Read more about our cities working on safe and active mobility around the world:
In Bangkok, new design updates are improving safety in the Bamrung Mueang neighborhood.
More than half of road traffic fatalities are among pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists.
8 out 10 adolescents and 27% of adults do not meet WHO’s recommended levels of physical activity.
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The Boston Public Health Commission partnered with MassBike and LivableStreets Alliance to create trainings for the City of Boston’s Public Works Department and school bus drivers.
The report details the scale of global road traffic deaths, and progress in advancing laws, strategies and actions to reduce them around the world.
Op-ed coauthored by Kelly Henning, Public Health Program Lead at Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Ariella Rojhani, Director of the Partnership for Healthy Cities.