Partner Updates
Mobilization of citizen volunteers to advocate for “Slow Down” in Mumbai
With new and better road infrastructure created in Mumbai city, speed limit violations have been on a significant rise amongst the motorists, leading to incremental risks to the safety of other road users. Further, it has been observed that the licensed drivers in the city are not aware of applicable speed limits for different classes of vehicles as well as the various road signs indicating speed limits applicable for specific roads. The Slow Down campaign aims at advocating improved enforcement of speed control measures and speed management policies in Mumbai to curb speeding behavior amongst
motorists; thereby reducing the number of road crashes and serious injury and death caused by excessive or inappropriate speeding.
The team of United Way Mumbai presented about Slow Down speed observation report and received feedback from the spot wise identified 10 road safety advocacy club members and traffic dept. appreciated the effort taken and extended their departments support for all the relevant ecommendations and can be considered.