Kidical Mass Action Weeks Fall 2024: Streets are for everyone!
Take part in the Kidical Mass Action Weeks from September 16 to October 27, 2024! With colorful bike demos, school streets and more, we are setting an example for child-friendly and livable cities, because “Streets are for everyone!”
The Kidical Mass action alliance is calling for nationwide action weeks from September 16 to October 27, 2024, this year under the motto “Streets are for everyone!”. Bicycle demonstrations, school streets or bike buses/bicuses will be organized in several hundred cities and municipalities. In this way, we are making families, children and their needs visible in road traffic. As part of the Kidical Mass action weeks in May 2024, there were already over 600 actions with over 90,000 participants. The alliance, which is based in Cologne, consists of over 700 organizations, associations and initiatives.
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School streets
This year, the Kidicial Mass action alliance is calling for more school streets! They are an important measure for safe routes to school for all children. This is because dangerous situations for children regularly occur directly in front of schools.
School streets demonstrably contribute to improving road safety and offer more space for children.
Our demands
1. a reform of road traffic law with a focus on independent and safe mobility for children.
- Firstly, the new Road Traffic Act must focus on children’s need for protection and aim for Vision Zero – zero road deaths. Secondly, it must enable independent mobility for children.
- Cities and municipalities must be given the freedom to implement child- and bicycle-friendly measures not only at individual danger spots, but throughout the entire urban area. This includes, for example
- protected or structurally separated, wide cycle paths on main roads and protected intersections (based on the Dutch model)
- 30 km/h on main roads in urban areas
- School streets and zones without car traffic (temporary bans on motor vehicles)
- Bicycle lanes and bicycle zones as a comprehensive network and basis for a safe school route network
- Streets without through traffic in residential areas (e.g. Barcelona superblocks)
More and continuous investment
- In addition to the reform of road traffic law, there is an urgent need for more and continuous investment and personnel for the expansion of safe, child-friendly cycle paths and footpaths. There must also be concrete targets for the priority of cycling and walking, which local authorities must implement.
- Significant investment in a safe, comfortable school cycle path network by 2030.
About the Kidical Mass Action Alliance: The Kidical Mass is a worldwide movement. We are united by the vision that children and young people should be able to move safely and independently on foot and by bike. With our campaigns – especially the Kidical Mass bicycle demonstrations, the school streets and the bike bus (Bicibús) – we paint a positive picture of the future and make change tangible. At the heart of the action alliance are more than 700 local organizations and initiatives. A unique network – decentralized, self-organized and strong together. It is supported by supra-regional partners: ADFC, Campact, Changing Cities, Clean Cities Campaign, Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk, Greenpeace, Parents For Future, Pro Velo Schweiz, VCD and Zukunft Fahrrad.
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