Safe streets for children will be the hot topic of the 2004 European Mobility week. The objective is to reduce road safety risks for children in cities. Cities are key players in providing safe routs to schools or to playgrounds.

Safe streets for children are a necessary condition for sustainable mobility for children, because children are vulnerable road users and most accidents happen on the way to and back from school. In addition, children should have the right to travel alone. Less and less trips of children are made by themselves. In this way, children lack traffic experience and they are put even at more risk in complex traffic situations.

Any local authority can participate to the European Mobility Week providing it takes part to the Car Free Day on Wednesday 22nd of September (which will represent the main highlight of the European Mobility Week) and it commits to complying with the European Charter drawn up by the European partners and the national coordinators.

 National coordinators of the European Mobility Week

On 16 September, the European Mobility Week will be launched by a conference in Brussels called Smart Moves for Sustainable Mobility and organised by DG Environment.