- electric posts, telephone posts in the footpath,
- narrow footpaths,
- shops protruding into the footpath,
- encroachments of the footpath by shops, footpath vendors, hawkers,
- people waiting in the footpath (in large number) for buses and other means of transport
- open manholes in the middle of the footpath,
- tiles of the foothpath broken for laying cables, wires and desilting drainages and not replaced properly,
- using footpath to store construcion materials for the nearby construcion site,
- footpaths too high from the level of the road for senior citizens and children to step into,
- too many discontinuities in the footpath (due to both avoidable and unavoidable reason)
- using footpath to park vehicles,
- people convening regularly for gossiping (I regularly notice this peculiar scence in Lawrence Road),
- people never use an obnoxious footpath. When people stop using it, it further become a place for wrong deeds - it becomes a cycle (this is more common for footpaths along long perimeter wall) .
Thursday, August 03, 2006
What makes sidewalks unusable
For a long time I have been wondering why people do not use pedestrian footpaths along roads. I have been observing various reasons why people are not using sidewalks. Here are some of them (in no specific order) in brief,
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Hi,
This is the sorry state of our town. Having narrow streets with congested road traffic and many obstructions..... how a common man can use the footpath? The Authorities must have some broadmind to implement the schemes and should have a thorugh knowledge whether the scheme will be benificial to common man or not. Most of the schemes are nowadays benificial to themselves alone
Exactly Damodaran, whatever the scheme, all are 'beneficial' to them.
Like any other city in our country, encroachments are always a problem. Especially commercial establishments flout all the rules.
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