[sustran] The best examples from the south ? ( Curitiba, Bogota ++ ) What about road safety/ danger reduction ?

[Morten Lange]

Hi 

The Decade of Action for Road Safety  is dominated (although not completely) by 
the FIA, who points the South  to solutions from Northern Europe regarding Road 
Safety.
The Decade will be officially on Wednesday, 11th of May 2011.  ( See 
e.g. http://www.decadeofaction.org/ )

My very rough analysis : 
Those nothern European countries are "rich",  car-dominated societies and have 
overspent on infrastructure fro the private car. Fatalities are down in part 
beacuse of well equipped hospitals  good paramedics and quick transport to 
high-tech hospitals. Partly beacuse pedestrians have been scared off the 
streets, etc. 

So what kind of good examples can be provided ? 
Which countries and cities have been setting good examples regarding road safety 
/ road danger reduction ?  
Solutions that improve equity, preferably reduce the ecological footprint of the 
society , improve public health etc, while improving "road safety"  ? 
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Regards / Kvedja
Morten Lange, Reykjavík