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I have the first hand experience of this situation.

Last week I had to come to marathahalli signal for the Hall of Shame #1 meeting with SB and others, here is what I had to do as I have choosen to take the public transport instead of my car for this purpose.

I walked for around 600 meters from my company in EGL campus to outside campus, near Hero honda showroom. Now what are the choices I had, I don't think there is any bus directly going from there towards Marathalli, which takes a right from IRR towards marathahalli. So, I decided to walk down till old airport road. It was around 700 meters. I took the same footpath you mentioned SB, I couldn't take any snaps as I have waited enough for the bus and no more time to get delayed for the meet.

While walking, many times, I had to step in and out of the footpath for various reasons and finally, I reached the strech SB has pointed out in above pics. Apart from too narrow, its not even conitnuous, and at the end of the strech, you see no more slab-covers and you have to step on that road, and risk your life to cross and reach old airport road. Story does't end here, After that I had to cross that full old-airport road to go on the other side as I had to go towards Marathalli. There was no Bus-stop at that point just below the flyover, there can be one as there is enough space there in terms of width. Then I saw a bus-stop a few meters ahead on the same road, so I started walking. Oh my God, how horrrifying was that strech, as vehicles are coming at good speeds to go straight or taking a ramp of the left side and I had risked my life again (this was horrifying but) to walk on that roadside to reach bus-stop near carlton towers where buses were stopping. I don't know whether that was a bus-stop or not, but buses were stopping there, and finally I took a bus to reach marathahalli signal and met SB and others.

My total walk of 1 km(outside EGL campus), is not bad in terms of distance, and not even in terms of good or bad footpath, but I had horrifying experiences to meet with accidents and escape while walking. I am not expecting high international quality footpaths righ now, but I want some reserved space where I can walk freely without interfering with the vehicular traffic while walking along the road or crossing the road.

Deepak

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SB,

While I was returning from the Marathahalli Signal Meet, I tried to take snaps of the footpath as well, but becaue of dark, they didn't come well.

There is no footpath for sometime and then its like this it starts when we come from Diamond District side and take left and enter into this road.

Deepak

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I used to walk from Indiranagar side to Koramangala side  crossing the (old) Airport Road prior to the flyover work started,

I could never resume.

K.V.Pathy

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A HU member posted these pictures on the Y-group, with the comment "Was 'walking' crossing the domlur flyover today and did not realize it is such a night mare".

I expect Bangalore must figure around the bottom in the 'world walkability index' - absolutely sad state of affairs.

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Thats how narrow ...

And hazardous the walk from Inner Ring Road to Airport Road is.

Your most likely response would be - I am  nitpicking. that's because you are tuned into accepting 3rd class amenities at such spots. Create such a spot at an airport, or inside a mall, and watch the responses then.

Why leave so much width for the road in the pics above, which anyway has no lane markings. 2 lanes and wider pavements can fit in with some work. People anyway don't use the barricaded pavements.

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