Overview

• Bloomberg Philanthropies named Buenos Aires among the winners of its inaugural Global Road Safety Speed Challenge announced in late August 2025.
• Organizers cited the city’s reduction to 50 km/h on high‑risk urban corridors and its modernization of enforcement using fixed and mobile radars plus manual speed measurement.
• The recognition includes financial support that the city says will help sustain and expand its road‑safety measures.
• Bloomberg’s road‑safety initiative, active since 2007, credits its work with saving roughly 900,000 lives, and Michael R. Bloomberg noted that speeding kills about 1,600 people each day worldwide.
• City leaders, including Jorge Macri, framed the award as validation of ongoing policies aligned with WHO recommendations, and Buenos Aires joins peers such as Addis Ababa, Bogotá, Bengaluru, Guadalajara, Kampala, Mombasa and Quito.