DOTr wants uniform speed limit on streets 

The Department of Transportation (DOTr), under the resolute leadership of Sec. Art Tugade, caps off the last day of the 6th UN Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW), with the pursuit to build #StreetsForLife and campaign for #LOVE30 or setting speed limits at 30 km/h, by uniting with the global policymakers to push for the enactment of low-speed streets as part of the transformative efforts of the Department to make cities safe, healthy, green, and liveable.

And as we have been driving programs, projects, and policies to alleviate the potential of public transport to become a transmission vector of the virus, it should not be forgotten that road safety is another pandemic – a silent one that has been killing thousands of Filipinos in a year.

Once unnecessary road crashes take the lives of our loved ones, we can no longer slow down to embrace them back. When we slow down, we also slow down chances of death and the eventual loss of our families and friends.

Let us be reminded that road safety will always remain a shared responsibility and as we travel, we carry with us the power to keep ourselves safe, along with the other users we share the road with.