lady bellur 10:31 AM, February 1st, 2011

i appreciate the government's effort in fixing the foot-paths of various extensions in bangalore. but i fail to understand the purpose of making it so high! i understand that high foot-paths prevent vehicular movements on it. but what about the pedestrians for whom it is meant? most of the citizens who may want to use these foot-paths for safety purposes are senior citizens who find it extremely difficult to walk on these pavements as many of them have knee problems and can not get down and climb up on these at every house on the street! and they dare not walk on the side of the road as vehicles are driven at high speeds with insensitive drivers! can the government think of making the pavements more pedestrian-friendly?

Deepa Mohan 04:42 PM, February 5th, 2011

Completely agree with you. I often have to walk on the road to avoid and up-down trajectory!

Partha 05:01 PM, February 7th, 2011

I fully agree. In fact if you walk on the footpath between Margosa road and 4th main road on 15th cross malleswaram, you will get the experience of a roller coaster ride at NO Cost! I have seen a few senior citizens tripping and falling over the highly uneven footpath.

Rather than raising the level of footpath, the traffic police should impose a strong fine on those parking on the footpaths.

RUDRAPPA 11:11 PM, February 7th, 2011

Most of the bangalore foot paths are most dangerous
in one of the incident one person who came from dharwad to bangalore to meet his friend last his leg while walking on the foot path of Shanthinagar double road
[ KH ROAD ] Due to gap between two slabs broken on a storm water drain below foot path , i am travelling about more than 50 km sorround the building for my professional work i use to see most of the foot paths are unscietifically constructed , senior citizens are unable to use due to more height and most of the places the slabs are broken , in most of the places iron inside the concrete slabs of foot path are broken and exposed causing dangeour to human life , In so many instances i have taken the photographs and met bbmp engineers and rectified the same , every year bbmp is spending thousands of crores of money to remove silt and construction of foot path all over banglaore , most of the times quality is not maintianed , works are done for the sake of money

ARS KUMAR. B.E.LLB. MA. JOURANALISM
CIVIL ENGINEER AND JOURANALIST

k n g rao 09:38 PM, February 9th, 2011

Where are the footpaths? .All gobbled by vendors/hawkers on a permanent basis ln gandhi bazar,malleshwaram ,E/S street etc.Even simple thing like removal of the so called roadhumps in entire city in the residential areas has not been done inspite of bringing to the notice of BBMP.Where is the need for road humps in the city?.Simply tar/jelly mixed dumplings are dumped across the road

Even vehicles are not to made to stop near the zeebra crossing by the police/traffic assistant
Kindly take itup with BBMP/Police for meaningful action.
regards
k n g rao
m 9448370093

Vasanth Ramu 03:12 PM, February 12th, 2011

Sudden openings in foot paths:

Two months back, I had a fracture in my feet due to opening in a footpath for draining storm water in Sreenagar Area opposite to PES college. I didn't notice the opening on a flat footpath and stepped onto it. Still I have not recovered.

Joy 01:54 PM, March 11th, 2011

I'm not an elderly person by any stretch; yet I find most of the renovated footpaths extremely inconvenient.

After walking on the footpath a a few steps, the footpath ends because there is a crossroad. Thereafter, it begins again. The footpaths having been built at a great height now-a-days, one must come down the great whenever the footpath ends and must expend a lot of potential energy when the footpath starts again.

I have wondered why a simple solution as this one has not been thought about:
The footpath must be built in such a manner that only the boundary stone is at an elevation. The rest of the footpath area must not be elevated at all. This will not just discourage motorists but also make it pedestrian-friendly.

Nagaraja Magonahalli 09:28 AM, April 28th, 2011

Being a sr citizen myself, a convenor of sr. citizens Forum, I fully endorse the plight to which sr. citizens are put to by authorities these days. Do they not have common sense, we cannot lift our feet beyond 5 inchs, getting down we really fall down into the road itself.Wherever storm water drains are being fortified under JNNURM programme by laying nice slabs foot path is the casuality-a roller coaster! we need not go to Las Vegas, we have it here in Bangalore!

VISVANATHAN SESHADRI 10:05 AM, June 11th, 2011

Bangalore is not meant for people who walk or cycle!
It is meant only for people using 2/4 wheelers. But it is only meant for driving- not parking.
Senior citizens should find some forest to and live in!
Even the animals there will understand our plight.
Our youngsters and civic authorities and law enfocers
do not care for us. To find a foot path is a fortune. To find them without hawkers is another fortune. To find youngsters not driving their 2 wheelers on these pathetic footpaths is another fortune!

We must all go to temple to pray to God for a safe and healthy journey in Bangalore!