At the recent MOVE Congress in 2017, Jonathan Hooshmand from the University of Miami shared the key learnings from “Walk safe. Bike safe.”, a movement which supports the right to move around safely in one’s community.

That is why the “Walk Safe. Bike Safe.” programmes have designed their activities around three main goals: to decrease the number of pediatric pedestrian and bicyclist injuries; to increase physical activity, and to encourage the use of walkable and bikeable environments.

Many of the programmes started in early 2000s when emergency centres registered a rising number of serious accidents between a cyclist and a car. In a country where roads are primarily designed for motorised vehicles, find out how the local communities have taken action for a safer neighbourhood.