Since our national road safety day was on 27th of April we took the advantage of this opportunity and started some of our activities earlier.
We had fruitful meetings for cooperation with other related organizations especially municipality transportation department.
– We prepared a template mail about the week and expected activities for Transportation Dept. of Ministry of Interior and based on that they sent an official mail to all of the provinces. In our province, we did the same and an official letter was sent from Province Governor to all of the cities and small towns.
– Printing “SaveLives #SlowDown” banners, signboards and T-shirts
– Attending Urban Planning Conference and ask all of the attendants to hold the signboard and take a picture with that
– A national photo contest through social media (more than 50 persons with 160 photos participated and 5 top pictures received honorable mention and trophies)
– Asking famous football and tennis players, bicyclists to support the campaign (took a lot of time but it was worth it)
– Creating 2 videos which were released through social media (Watch First Video) (Watch Second Video)
– Translating the information, toolkits, etc. on the global site and ask the relevant organizations to plan an activity for the week
– Talking with journalist and TV reporters to publish our activities in local media
– Sending our activities photos to UNGRSW team and fortunately, they used our photos in their communications and disseminations
– Planning a Road Safety Workshop for local traffic experts
– Talking with Ecotourism and Eco-friendly groups to support the campaign at least in one of their day tours
– Distribution of stickers for taxi drivers with title of the week and the sentence: “I respect the speed limit”
– Going to some schools (and Children Traffic Park) and talk about the week and some related safety related issues, distribute some materials and take pictures with the RS week logo
– Hold a slowdown day with Traffic Police, Municipality, Road Ministry, EMS , ask some high-speed drivers to stop and talking with them about the week and give them brochures instead of the ticket and ask to slowdown.
– Establishment of Telegram group to inform about the road safety week. The group was not a public group, but the members were from the key stakeholders in road safety.
During the Slowdown campaign at Kharazmi University in the first day of the week, we tried to make the students familiar with outcomes of excessive speed. The program was announced at the university campus and the students attended to conduct it. Furthermore the department of civil engineering advocated this movement towards safer roads.
Mohsen Fallah Zavareh (a member of RSP and assistant Prof. at Kharazmi University) gave a lecture at Tehran Traffic and Transportation Organization (related to Municipality of Tehran) on Tuesday. It was a technical presentation regarding the new approaches in road safety, including introduction to Safe System, its foundation and implementation. The presentation ended with introduction to the UN decade of action for road safety, speed and road safety week. The attendees were from the technical staff of regional traffic bureaus from all regions of Tehran.
