Dakar, Feb 15 (APS) – The Director General of the Dakar Urban Transport Executive Council (CETUD), Thierno Birahim Aw, has pledged to work with officials of schools located on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor, to “establish a new pedagogical framework for road safety education and teaching”.
“We want to work with the school to establish a new pelagic framework for road safety education and teaching,” he said.
Mr. Thierno Birahim Aw spoke on Tuesday during a discussion and sharing workshop with various officials of schools located in the area of influence of the BRT project and associations working in the field of road safety .
”This is why today we have brought together the national Senegalese school community, including academy inspections, education and training inspections, to discuss the best ways to prepare for the operation of the BRT,” he explained.
He pointed out that “the corridor crosses fourteen municipalities” and “twenty schools”. According to him, an extremely young population lives along this corridor, within the perimeter of influence of which there are 100 schools.
“Today, what we are trying to do is define an action plan that should lead to the promotion of new behaviors, virtuous, eco-responsible, eco-citizen behaviors, which will contribute to improving the overall performance of transport that ‘we will put in place,’ he said.
In this dynamic, he stressed that “he intends to work in a concrete way on the developments which will have a favorable impact on the reduction of road insecurity”.
”We will also naturally involve all stakeholders, including parents of students, associations, in short a set of tools that the project wishes to make available to Senegalese to inculcate behaviors that strengthen our national cohesion’ ‘, he added.
Mr. Aw insisted on “the ultimate objective of this approach” which, according to him, is “to make a concrete contribution to the ambition of the State of Senegal to reduce road insecurity within the framework of the decade of actions 2021-2030 (…)”.
“It’s also important to focus on the young target”, because 43% of the Senegalese population is made up of “a population under 15”, he explained. He adds that “50% of the population is only 19 years old”.
The academy inspector (IA) of Pikine-Guédiawaye, Gana Sène, welcomed “this approach of anticipation, open and inclusive of all the actors concerned by this project, including the school”.
“I truly appreciate it [cette démarche] because as part of the implementation of this project, there is a component that deals with road safety and the other reason is that many establishments are on the BRT corridor”, he said. -he says.
“A third reason which seems extremely important to us is that when we talk about road safety, we are talking about behavior and attitude, and the pupil or learner in general being a good relay, we think that this workshop will make it possible to educate the population in this dimension”, he argued.