Claiming Bike-Walkable Zero Zones to School
Project theme: Sustainable, Inclusive and Active Mobility (SIAM) solutions
BY ROBERTO JOSUÉ RODRÍGUEZ SANTIAGO
This project strengthens Vision Zero for Youth by promoting safer school journeys by walking and biking in the three most underserved school zones of San Luis Potosí. It aims to prevent avoidable deaths and injuries through bicycle trains, youth-led co-design of complete streets plans, quick-build asphalt art interventions, and advocacy for safety-based planning.
Each school establishes a road safety committee and nominates a youth representative to a citywide observatory to push for systemic change. The project delivers safer commutes, empowered youth advocates, and a replicable model for inclusive mobility, active transportation, and spatial justice rooted in community and culture.
ABOUT THE PROJECT LEAD
ROBERTO JOSUE RODRIGUEZ SANTIAGO
Josue Santiago is a 30-year-old architect and cycling activist with a Master's degree in Sustainable Cities from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. He specialises in artistic and urban interventions for road safety and public space, and has received training in urban governance, citizen participation, and public policy advocacy.
He has been collaborating with Derechos Urbanos since 2017. As a survivor of two traffic accidents while walking and cycling, since 2023, he has been involved in the first citizen-initiated mobility law in his country, #LeySanti, named after him.
Impact snapshots
Implemented diagnostic workshops on school travel routes.
Collaborated with local artists for mural and creative signage.
Executed tactical urbanism intervention and installed Youth Road Safety Observatory.
