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Written By Kanthi Kannan - 27 January, 2010
Bangalore Need Help amenities Transportation Infrastructure Pedestrian Infrastructure
Dear all, Greetings!! The Right to Walk Foundation is a Hyderabad based NGO campaigning for pedestrian rights. My name is Kanthi Kannan and I am the founder president of R2W. I am a speaker at the TEDx conference at Hyderabad. For this purpose, I would like photos of walkable footpaths of Bangalore. Could you please send at least 2 or 3 of them? Any photos of good pedestrian crossings would also be very useful. I would give your organisation credit for the same. The presentation as well as any use will not be used for profit.
Thanks
Kanthi Kannan
THOSE WHO WALK CANNOT DECIDE AND THOSE WHO DECIDE DO NOT WALK
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idontspam - 28 January, 2010 - 15:26
The beeper is for visually challenged. But the stones jutting out at the corners is bound to trip the blind person right onto the road traffic. This is what happens if you get half the idea right. I dont believe there is a SINGLE area in Bangalore which can claim to have footpaths which are laid right to IRC specs and are disabled friendly. Yes even the beeper above doesnt make the footpath disabled friendly.
srinidhi - 28 January, 2010 - 15:39
IDS,
I see the beepers here more for the vehicles..cos they stop till it turns green for them now and the beep stops..else earlier they are always in a hurry jumping signals..
About disabled crossing roads..we in India have way too many people on the roads here and its not unusual to see blind being hand led across roads by those good samaritans always..
Not that its an excuse for bad footpath in the image..that photo is next to the JnUrm funded TTMC being constucted..probably it will get fixed along with the bldg..
Naveen - 27 January, 2010 - 13:50
Greetings Mr Kanthi Kannan, & Welcome.
As far as I know, the only remaining good pedestrian facilities are in some parts of south Bangalore such as Basavanagudi & Jayanagar, which are old /well planned areas of Bangalore with many wide roads.
In most other places, sidewalks have either shrunk due to road widening & /or are in very poor condition due to repeated digging for one reason or the other.
Since I reside away on the eastern side of town, I'm unable to get you pictures. Can someone living in the south please help out ?
Thanx
rs - 27 January, 2010 - 14:04
Hi
I think their exist some good footpaths in the BEL area - though in a sense that is not quite municipal Bangalore - that may be maintained by BEL and not BBMP. I'm not sure BBMP knows what a good footpath is.
Their exist some decent footpaths in Mysore though - Devaraj Urs road, for example.
Ramesh
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