Two years back, Gita Vir, a civic activist, died when she was hit by a motorcycle while she was crossing a road.

Courting better footpaths

While walking to her workplace in Bangalore, Jenny Pinto encounters electrical transformers, uncovered manholes and displaced tiles. After years of trying to nudge people into action for walkers’ rights, Pinto has realized one thing. “That unless citizens take a legal route to make civic authorities understand the importance of walkability, safe roads have no chance,” she says. A designer and a resident of Indiranagar, 53-yearold Pinto did just that by filing a petition last April with the Karnataka high court seeking directions to the government to build better footpaths.

This month, a pedestrian activist in Bangalore lost her life in a road accident. But the fight goes on.

6स्वामी दयानंद मार्ग पर फुटपाथ पर अतिक्रमण की समस्या16पीडब्ल्यूडी व यातायात पुलिस ने आयोग को सौंपी रिपोर्ट

स्वामी दयानंद मार्ग (रोड संख्या-57) पर फुटपाथ पर अतिक्रमण की समस्या को लेकर जनशिकायत आयोग ने सुनवाई के दौरान लोक निर्माण विभाग और यातायात पुलिस को हर हाल में अतिक्रमण हटाने का निर्देश दिया है। इस दौरान आयोग ने दोनों विभागों के मौजूदा प्रयासों को नाकाफी करार दिया है। आयोग ने कहा कि किसी भी सूरत में फुटपाथ पर अवैध पार्किंग या अतिक्रमण नहीं होना चाहिए।

Reacting to the safety audit report of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route on Alandi-Nagar road, member of the Nagrik Chetna Manch, Qaneez Sukhrani has said that all recommendations of the report sho

One of the ten recommendations suggested for safe operations of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on the Ahmednagar-Alandi Road by IIT Bombay's safety audit report is minimal bus-to-platform gap.

Referring to wide gaps found during normal operations in the BRT systems in other large cities in Asia and America, the report recommended that during the trial run of the BRTS on this route in the city, this safety aspect should be carefully looked into.

Terms Overall Work Satisfactory; PMC Promises To Fix Problems

Pune: A safety audit of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) on Alandi-Nagar Road, conducted by IIT Bombay, has termed the civic work as satisfactory while pointing out certain shortcomings.

Poor Planning, Lack Of Vision Add To Chaos

Lucknow: The outer limits of Lucknow are constantly expanding along with the rise in population. But this has not been accompanied by the creation of better and adequate infrastructure like roads, fl yovers and underpasses. Due to lack of planning, callous approach and myopic vision, the city is lagging behind in development.