56 motorized sky walks for pedestrians!

Not that BBMP doesn't care for pedestrians. They have been talking about motorized sky walks for sometime now, and earlier this week, a BBMP tender showed up with plans for sky walks all around the city - 56 of them, and with escalators!

"These sky walks are proposed with attractive escalators of adequate capacity on both sides of the road which shall facilitate the vertical movement of the users for climbing as well alighting purposes"

As I said, the fancy skywalk talk isn't new. Earlier this year, BBMP had plans for 30 "capsule lift" based sky walks, refer this tender dated 12th Feb 2007:

"These sky walks are proposed with attractive capsule lifts of adequate capacity provided on both sides of the road which shall facilitate safe vertical movement of the users."

So it could be that the "capsule lifts" have given way to regular escalators now. Or we may be on track to get these 56 as well as those 30 sky walks. Don't know, but let us take anything we get.

By the way, even with escalators or lifts, I think our pedestrians will prefer to walk across the road. Design for these skywalks must include barricades or fences to deny the run-through-traffic short cut to willing pedestrians.