27/05/2020

Online seminar on mobility and public roads

Aimed especially at Uruguayan governors belonging to the Legislative and Executive Branches and departmental and municipal governments, it delved into the measures implemented in aspects of mobility and public spaces in different cities in Spain and Latin America that promote and contribute to respecting distances in times of pandemics and ensuring safe and healthy mobility of the population.

Alejandro Draper, president of the National Road Safety Unit, celebrated the opportunity to meet virtually to work on these issues and said that "the case studies around the world on the same problem show us with similar solutions. We must always think positively, and look for things in this situation that teach us and that we will revert from this new normality to advance in everything that makes to road safety".

For her part, Maria Fernanda Rodriguez, president of the Gonzalo Rodriguez Foundation, said that "we thought it was important, as civil society, that governments have tools to protect citizens and provide guarantees for safe mobility in this new reality we are living. We have exchanged experiences and we could observe that in many cities ideas of easy execution and low cost are made, like the reduction of speed, extension of bicycle paths, exclusive lanes for motorcycles, disinfection of public transport, distance for pedestrians".

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During his lecture, Rodriguez provided the participants with the data obtained in the survey "Transit and Transport in the context of Coronavirus in Uruguay" recently presented by the organization.

Among the foreign lecturers, Elena de la Peña, Deputy Director of the Spanish Road Association, participated, who delved into "Successful interventions in Spain and pending challenges"; Johana Vollrath, Executive Director of CONASET, on "Temporary Cycleway Plan in Chile" and Maricela Ponce de León, Consultant in Road Safety for the Transport Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Meanwhile, Gonzalo Pena Iglesias and Lucila Capelli, Director and Undersecretary of the Secretariat of Transport and Public Works of Buenos Aires spoke on "Interventions and actions in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires" and Jorge Rubino, Director of Motorcyclist Safety of the National Road Safety Agency of Argentina spoke on "Proposals for mobility on motorcycles during and after COVID 19".

This meeting was held within the framework of the actions planned by the Gonzalo Rodriguez Foundation in order to contribute to the authorities responsible for road safety throughout the country in these times of pandemic.

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