notably to achieve longterm goals for delivering safe and sustainable urban environments a coherent narrative based on integrated transport and landuse policies needs be developed the main lessons that can be drawn from the road safety stories of lisbon and riga and provides recommendations on advancing good governance for delivering effective road safety policies are mentioned below both case studies show the considerable importance of politics and a capacity for successful creation and implementation of road safety policies successful implementation requires not just the political momentum to initiate policies to promote road safety but also the enforcement of legislation in practice