1. The document discusses achieving slower cities and balancing speeds as part of the New Urban Agenda. It notes that several cities like Nairobi, Bangkok, and Bogota are already going slower. 2. It provides data showing that average speed, not maximum speed, determines travel time and that lower average speeds can be safer. It also notes that vulnerable road users like pedestrians and cyclists who tend to travel slowly are disproportionately at risk of traffic deaths. 3. The document proposes policies, designs, education and actual implementation to help cities go slower in a way that improves safety and livability while balancing travel needs. It provides an example from Bogota where road interventions reduced speeds and improved safety with majority

1. Achieving slower
cities:
Towards the New
Urban Agenda
Networking evet
World Urban Forum 9 – Kuala Lumpur
February 9, 2018

2. Yes, we are going slow….
Nairobi Bangkok Bogotá
… everywhere!

3. And there are others going fast

4. We just need
to find
the right balance

5. Please distinguish
• Average speed is what matters (it defines your travel time)
• Maximum speed is a momentary speed that may get you in trouble
(and will NOT get you there faster)

6. 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
0:00:00 0:07:12 0:14:24 0:21:36 0:28:48 0:36:00 0:43:12 0:50:24
Speed(Km/h)
Time (h:mm:ss)
Driving speeds- SITP bus in Av 68 - Calle 100
Speed Average speed
1. We are accelerating too much
And anyway
going at low
average
speeds10
Bus: accelerates to 60 km/h
60

7. Same graph, by bicycle
Higher
average
speed!
35
15
Accelerates up to 35 km/h

9. 3. We are killing people
Half of victims (dead) on roads are
vulnerable users (pedestrians,
cyclists, motorcyclists), most of which
go slow (and short distances).
Source: WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety, 2015

10. 4. We are
segregating
people

11. 5. We are
creating
worse cities

12. So we propose going slower
http://nuaimplementation.org/commitments/cities-going-slower/

13. Going slower can be done with
• Policies, regulations, enforcement
• Designs and guidelines
• Actual implementation
• Education (drivers!)

18. Government
employee
Ice-cream guy
My bicycle

19. El no lugar

21. Before-after

22. Community
appropriation

23. Opinion after the intervention
71% said YES to keeping it
permanently

24. Barrios Unidos - Bogotá
- Intervention along two blocks (+/- 200m total length)
- 100+ road segregation elements (bushes and traffic cones)
- +/- 30 painted polygons
- Reduction of traffic lanes in two intersections to improve road safety
- Effective limitation of illegal parking, instead provision of on-road parking spots
- Provision of bike lane (200m), pedestrian path (75m) and safer crossings

25. Barrios Unidos intervention

26. Perceptions during intervention
Yes, I feel safer;
82%
I feel about as
safe as before;
13%
No, I feel less
safe; 5%
Do you feel safer with this intervention
present?
Yes; 79%
No; 21%
Do you think this intervention
should be made permanent?

27. Cities are already going slow in
many places (including KL!)

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