Road Protection Week began first in 2007 and this year’s theme is: “To secure the journey of the foot and cycle” “
Dr. Aitian Khois, who led the United Nations Road Safety Cooperation Forum, says “walking and bicycling should be the most common, and therefore the safest, the safest way of traffic.”
12 million deaths per year in road accidents
The United Nations General Assembly passed a proposal in September 2021, where a decade (2021-27) was announced to protect the road.
The goal of this decade is to reduce death by 50 percent in road accidents.
To achieve this goal, some progress has been made, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that all the policy sector requires a further view.
Every year about 12 million people die in road accidents.
More than a quarter of this death is pedestrians and cyclists.
This death is not the same worldwide, because road accidents are less than 90 percent of death and moderate income countries.
Furthermore, the United Nations estimate that 90 percent of the world’s 90 percent of the streets do not have enough value to protect pedestrians and only 0.2 percent of the roads are available.
This means that pedestrians and bicycles are constantly in danger.
Health, economy and environment will be better
Improvement of pedestrians and cyclists is not only a matter of traffic, it also affects health, economy and environment.
“Walking and cycling improves health and makes cities more sustainable. Each step and bike journey, traffic crowds, air pollution and disease every step, traffic crowds, air pollution and disease reduce.”
For example, after the expansion of the chakra route in Fortaliza City, Brazil, the walking activities and rebuilt areas increased by 109 percent, where children were seen playing two times more open spaces.
In Norway, a tunnel called Philingsdalstunellain helps reduce carbon emissions and encourage leg travel and cycling. It has made the murals on the walls and is monitored by the protection camera.
The United Nations Global Road has provided a policy makers, including the WHO concrete initiative to advance these national changes during the week of Global Road Protection Week.
For example, in other policy sectors walking and cycling schemes to integrate and create a more broad structure for them.
Doctor Kug said, “We need to do better and we can.”