Shane O’Connor
@OConnorShane
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🚨 Cardiff has made UK history! We’re the first council in Britain to agree to charge higher parking fees for SUVs and heavy cars. 🧵
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and fairer
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iRAP will be proudly supporting the partnership through #StarRatingsforSchools and in-kind support for capacity building and advocacy. @AIPFoundation @SR4Schools
🚦 Every year, approximately 2,000 children and young people lose their lives on Viet Nam’s roads. That’s 2,000 too many! On 15 October in Ha Noi, WHO Viet Nam and the @AIPFoundation officially launched the Vietnam Project 2000 Road Safety Partnership — a bold initiative to
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iRAP Global Projects Director @juliourzua recently joined over 300 decisions-makers at Traffic Chile 2025 in Santiago, presenting a solutions focus to road infrastructure safety through use of the iRAP methodology and tools. #Chile #PartnershipsforImpact
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🚗💰 Zürich in favour for parking fees by weight Fees in residential “blue zones” will now depend on car weight. This means heavier cars will pay more — a step designed to align urban mobility with sustainability. [1/3]
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"Youth Lead the Way: Safe Schools, Save Our Lives" https://t.co/SPj8j9z5VY on @LinkedIn
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Road crashes claim an estimated 1.19 million lives every year and remain the leading cause of death for children and young people aged 5–29 (WHO, 2023).
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Fundação Thiago de Moraes Gonzaga, Translab and iRAP, with support from FedEx Brazil, launched Safe Pathways to Schools project. The initiative seeks to transform the environments surrounding schools into safer, more inclusive, and more resilient spaces https://t.co/Gv4zlLGb0X
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1) 2pm: “nobody ever rides these, they just sit here blocking parking spaces” 2) same station, same day, 7pm
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For those in the back who still think making our streets safer is a technical challenge. It is not. It is only a POLITICAL one! —Manila, Philippines by @pinoyurbanist
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Always make eye contact with truck drivers before crossing the road, to make sure they see you. As truck drivers are seated high up in the cab, people and objects directly in front of the truck may not be visible to them. @Afrika_Usalama
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