Creating fair streets
For everyone
Parents navigating Ebensee’s streets with strollers and young children face constant challenges: dodging cars, maneuvering through narrow or bumpy sidewalks, and feeling threatened by excessive driving speeds. These daily struggles highlight how current street design fails the most vulnerable road users: children and their caregivers. That’s why we organized a stroller march in July of 2025.
Photo from workshop, Ebensee
Reclaiming Streets for the Most Vulnerable
The first-ever Ebensee Stroller March (Kinderwagen-Roas) transforms these frustrations into action as part of the Fair Mobility project. For a brief but meaningful time, parents and children claim the street space for themselves, setting their own pace and priorities. While some drivers react with confusion to this “moving traffic obstacle,” the message resonates clearly: young children represent the most vulnerable road users and deserve consideration from everyone sharing the streets.
Building Community Through Mobility Justice
The march was a great success and it helped build local connestions. Stations along the route from the town hall through the city center provided entertainment for children and fostered positive encounters between participants and Ebensee residents. This community engagement embodies Fair Mobility’s mission to raise awareness about the conditions necessary for safe, equitable mobility and fair access to public spaces.
Through actions like the Stroller March, Fair Mobility demonstrates how participatory approaches can challenge existing power dynamics in transportation planning, ensuring that the needs of caregivers and children (often overlooked in mobility policies) become visible and valued in creating more inclusive communities.