Child transport to school, and safety in school zones This report is part of the Safe Latin American Children in Traffic Program that aims to contribute to the reduction of risks associated to child road accidents, focusing on children on their way to and from school.
Annual report 2021 While the world is still experiencing the COVID19 pandemic -which is said to be the worst pandemic in the last 100 years-, at the Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez we continue working side by side to fight the epidemic of road accidents and to ensure safe mobility.
Improving road safety outcomes through training In 2019, thanks to the support of the UPS Foundation, the Gonzalo Rodríguez Foundation (FGR) and the National Road Safety Agency (ANSV), signed an agreement to consolidate and strengthen collaboration to generate and update public policies and regulations for road safety practices, with a focus on safe mobility.
Dominican Republic: an opportunity in Child Road Safety Central America represents a real opportunity to show substantial changes in terms of safe child mobility and child road safety. For this reason, in coordination with the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (INTRANT), the Gonzalo Rodriguez Foundation trained 26 references from 9 public agencies in child road safety.
Safe Child Mobility in Argentina Children’s Road Safety is one of the pillars of the Gonzalo Rodríguez Foundation’s work, mainly due to its high knowledge on the subject. That is why one of the work plans in Argentina -where the Foundation already has an operational site- is precisely to develop a national road safety plan in Argentina.
Results of the Gonzalo Rodríguez Cultural Center contest On December 1st, the winners of the preliminary architectural design competition for the Gonzalo “Gonchi” Rodríguez Cultural Center were announced.
Effectiveness of control as an agent of change With the support of UNASEV and the National Directorate of Roadside Police, we held the regional seminar “Control Effectiveness as an Agent of Change”, which was attended by agents from different countries.
Child Road Safety in Argentina: a long term commitment With the presence of almost 250 people, together with the Argentine Road Safety Agency, we held a virtual conference on the progress of public policies aimed at children’s road safety in that country.
High impact urban intervention As part of the 20th anniversary of the Gonzalo Rodriguez Foundation, a high-impact urban intervention was held to raise awareness and publicly reaffirm the concern and request the commitment of all to work to improve road safety in Uruguay, which in 2019 claimed the lives of 422 people.
1/3 of Chileans will change their usual form of transportation by car or bicycle 34% of Chileans say that they have thought about changing their most frequently used transport to the car in the first place and the bicycle in the second.
Commitment to road safety and mobility The Foundation has been developing an intense work since last year, seeking that the different areas of government of Uruguay have in their agenda to road safety and mobility.
Presentation of the foundation plaque of the Gonzalo “Gonchi” Rodríguez Cultural Center Exactly on the day of the 21st anniversary of the death of Gonzalo Rodríguez in an accident at the Laguna Seca circuit, his legacy materialized more than ever with the announcement of the beginning of the works and the discovery of the “foundation plaque” of the Gonzalo “Gonchi” Rodríguez Cultural Center.
