The Long Short Walk

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Too many pedestrians are being killed and injured on the world's roads. Yet implementing safety measures is cost effective and the solutions are simple. Often what's needed is as simple as a safe crossing point or a pavement.

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Life saving steps

Implementing pedestrian safety measures is cost effective, and many of the solutions are simple. It can be introducing pavements (84% of roads surveyed by iRAP have no pedestrian provision); providing safe crossing points; ‘calming’ streets with traffic humps, rumble strips and chicanes; and lowering vehicle speed limits in areas where traffic and pedestrians share the road space.

The Long Short Walk is a global campaign advocating for safe for roads for all. To achieve this, we are calling for road safety to be included in the next UN ‘Sustainable Development Goals’. In September world leaders will meet in New York to begin the process of agreeing these new post-2015 goals. Make your voice heard!

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The Long Short Walk campaigns for the rights of pedestrians and children on the road to be recognised and urges greater investment in safe footpaths, cycle-ways and crossing points, on streets with lower speed limits, especially around schools. To achieve this globally, we’re calling for road safety to become part of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Millennium Development Goals have been the focus for the international community’s efforts to reduce poverty, disease and child mortality, and to improve access to education. After 2015 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will set the policy agenda for the decades to come. We need to ensure that safe and sustainable transport is part of these Goals.

Tell the UN to include road safety in its priorities post-2015. Take part in the UN’s global survey. Vote for ‘better transport and roads’ and suggest road safety as an extra priority >

HOW TO TAKE PART:

First, take a walk. It can be your walk to school or work, your favourite walk, or even just a stroll to the corner shop. If you have a dangerous road or junction nearby we'd be interested to see it. We'll upload these short walks online and combine them into one Long Walk, providing a snapshot of streets and journeys all across the world.

You can upload your photos or videos any way you want – Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Twitter or any other social media. Please use the hashtag: #walksafe.

The best way to get them direct to the campaign is via Flickr, but if you're not doing it this way make sure you use the campaign hastags so we can pull everything together.
Download the Long Short Walk signboards and use them on your walk to call for action. Editable boards are available (Requires Adobe InDesign software) – do feel free to add your own organisation’s logo if you want.

So join our campaign for sustainable change and use your own two feet to walk for safe roads for all!

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Upload your photos and videos to The Long Short Walk Flickr group >

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Submit your own YouTube videos to The Long Short Walk >

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About the campaign

The Long Short Walk is led by the Zenani Mandela Campaign, the Make Roads Safe Campaign and the Road Safety Fund. The campaign was officially launched with events across the world during UN Global Road Safety Week in May 2013, when thousands of people took to their streets on Long Short Walks calling for Safe Roads for All!

The Long Short Walk is funded through grant support from the FIA Foundation and the Road Safety Fund.

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