'High court notice to government on Pedestrian Safety'

Jaywalking: 195 cases booked

This only makes sense where they have provided a crossing & it is not being used. Most of the city doesnt have facilities to cross. I hope this law is clear & not misused there. What if they have provided an underpass/overpass & there are old people who find it difficult to cross? How will they ensure public transport stops near these underpasses or crossings & not somewhere else? how are they informing people the presense of facilities especially since it is not a standard facility in the city?

Deepak, But my point is how do you ensure they apply only where the option to cross exists & not everywhere? does it say in the law or the act they are using penalize? Has an instruction been given to the staff or made clear to you & me by the police? every crossing outside a zebra crossing is a jaywalking & what is the garuntee that they will not penalize you anywhere else even when facilities dont exist? Why the F*** do they never think thru anything before implementing? Look what happened to lane discipline with the cones/spring posts? Everything is jugaad, how will it last?

I have seen it work at Mysore bank junction...where groups of pedestrians move together in a close pack crossing the road at grade..they brave the might of the busses and yet succeed in crossing the street!

So actually jay walkers are at higher risk trying to negotiate roads with fast vehicles..so instead of mid block sprints..they can as well get to the junctions and other legal ped crossings to form the critical mass which can cross safely..

so maybe the fines for jay walking could actually help in better safer  peds crossings..

some interesting photos of how we negotiate road crossing.

http://www.thehindu.com/n...

you might be interested to knwo that when it comes to laws...its all there ..about how to build roads, maintain them, cross them, drive on them....all there and all sound laws too.

its in the compliance, implementaions and enforcement that we fail. and fail badly. we need a paradigm shift in our thinking. thats what i am hoping the PIL will help seed. with your help ....fr the long term of course. nothing changes overnight.

A press release from Janaagraha said the report focused on walkability, which includes adequate footpaths, pedestrian crossing aids and street lighting, all combined facilities which make roads user-friendly and safe for pedestrians. The report revealed that 20.9 per cent of the roads surveyed have no footpaths, while 53.3 per cent have footpaths on both sides and 52.4 per cent have sufficiently wide footpaths on both sides. - - - At present, Janaagraha is conducting a poll on “Which is the best way to make Bangalore more walkable.” Public can participate by logging on to www.ichangemycity.com.

For the full report in the New Indian Express, click here.

Perhaps, we can use some of the data compiled by Janaagraha.

The report revealed that 20.9 per cent of the roads surveyed have no footpaths, while 53.3 per cent have footpaths on both sides and 52.4 per cent have sufficiently wide footpaths on both sides

...Why doesnt it total to 100?

Have spent some time in this. The problem is at many levels, in part the way the IRC has come up with its documentation. Its impractical to assume an engineer will read through a 100 documents before they lay out a road (would be happy if they read through one !)

The practical solution is a few smarter people have to sit down and come up with a few templates, eg: a 30ft road, a 80ft road, a single lane road, road with street vendors, etc. These should be well thought through and meet the guidelines as well. After that, its a question of the engineer on job picking up one.

The way things are done now is somebody starts with a road and space for footpath. Then the electricity guy comes and puts in a pole right in the middle, and the forest deparment will put in a tree, effectively making it too narrow and thus unusable.

Whether you like it or not, they are upteen uses of a road, (footpaths, drains, undergroudn cabling, traffic, vendors, street lighting, parking, trees, cycling, bus-stops etc). Dealing with each one in isolation is the fundamental flaw in the process. We have to think it through comprehensively and come up with a template which takes into account all of these and does an efficient job of using the road space. Can be done if we approach it right

When in doubt or even otherwise use 'Tender Sure' specs..unfortunately it does not get them the money like they would be making now..hence no tender sure for sure!

There are no pedestrian signal cycles in many of the Bangalore traffic junction with BTP concentrating only moving vehicles than people.

In Devegowda Petrol Bunk, which is a very prominent signal on ORR near Padmanabhnagar, there is no pedestrian cycle. Yesterday I tried to cross the road risking on the zebra crossing when no vehicles were present, when a speeding Honda City  who had an yellow signal came  from nowhere like hitting to frighten me and arguing why you are crossing road. There was lot of space behind me, still that raging driver wanted to have fun.

 A traffic police was sitting right there did not even bother to stop the car and was a mere spectator. He is simply telling me  'hogi hogi..' (go go).

I complained this of BTP's FB page. Condition of a pedestrian and a bus traveller is horrible in Bangalore. People driving cars forget they too walk sometimes and cross the roads.

Mr. Suhas,

Can you give the link to your presentation?

In HAL II Stage, foot paths are being laid in 13th Main.

Our RWA have

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