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Elisa Mendoza - Chronos TV #11 / Les héros du quotidien - Blog - Groupe Chronos - 0 views

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    "A Montréal, ce sont tous les utilisateurs du transport en commun qui sont considérés comme des super-héros. La campagne du STM de Montréal et l'association Equiterre ont voulu mettre en valeur le "cocktail transport", il s'agit d'un super-pouvoir collectif qui alimente l'intermodalité des transports. Près d'un million de super-héros du quotidien réalisent le "cocktail transport" sans le savoir et pourtant, ils contribuent à la réduction de plus de 800.000 tonnes de gaz à effet de serre dans l'atmosphère, l'équivalent de près de 250.000 voitures. Le président de la STM de Montréal a voulu remercier en personne les usagers de cette précieuse contribution, il était évidemment déguisé en super-héros du quotidien !"
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Power Rangers-Suited Man Is An Everyday Hero In Tokyo Subways - PSFK - 0 views

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    "There is a masked avenger on the streets of Tokyo seeking justice in an injust world - well, not quite. But there is a man in a Power Rangers suit helping strangers down to the subway platform. Tadahiro Kanemasu is a costumed good Samaritan, helping old ladies, carrying strollers and heavy objects down the steps of a dimly lit underground stairwell."
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Unmasked! The Mexico City superhero wrestling for pedestrians' rights | Cities | The Gu... - 0 views

  • The traffic light turns red at the corner of Avenida Juárez and Eje Central, the busiest pedestrian crossing in Mexico City, used by around 9,000 people every hour. Tonight, a driver stops his grey Peugeot exactly on the crossing where the masses are trying to pass. His car is now a steel barrier for those trying to reach the Palacio de Bellas Artes. A masked man dressed in black makes his way through the river of people, walking purposefully towards the Peugeot. His black and white striped cape, reminiscent of a zebra crossing, flaps behind him. He goes to the car, flings his cape over his shoulder, and pushes the Peugeot backwards to make space. “My name is Peatónito, and I fight for the rights of pedestrians,” he says, introducing himself.
  • The driver smiles and reverses willingly and eventually the pair shake hands. With the pedestrian crossing again flowing as it should, Peatónito heads back to the pavement where he will wait until he is needed again. The traffic light turns green.
  • The triumphs are tangible. This August, Mexico City’s government presented a new set of road traffic regulations with reduced speed limits on primary routes (that is, slower routes) from 70km/h to 50km/h. The reduced speed limit isn’t a mere whim on the part of the activists; it’s possible to measure how dangerous the streets of the capital are. In Mexico City, 52 accidents in every 1,000 are fatal. In the entire country, the rate is 39 deaths for every 1,000 accidents.
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  • Another battle that has been fought and won is the implementation of “Vision Zero”, a series of public policies aimed at eradicating road traffic deaths, which activists worldwide have been backing for years.
  • The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK are among the pioneering countries to adopt Vision Zero (the first two just under 20 years ago). Then came US cities like Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, and eight more. In Mexico, the initiative has been taken up – at least as a point of discussion – in Torreón, an industrial city in the state of Coahuila, and in Mexico City.
  • If today pedestrians are at the centre of Mexico City’s new road traffic regulations – having relegated cars from the top of the agenda – it is in large part the result of years of activism influencing the city’s policies on road traffic safety.
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    "Clogged with traffic, crippled by poor infrastructure - the capital is notoriously hard to navigate on foot. Enter Peatónito, the activist fighting for safer streets"
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