Save Pune Traffic Movement

Promoting safe, sustainable and inclusive transportation

How good are the new footpaths?

Are people now walking on the footpath or are they still walking on the carrigeway? Although factors like benches and trees are important, people must walk on it if it is a good footpath! Some of the footpaths built in the last 4-5 years have created an impression that they have narrowed the carriageway. However, in most cases, the footpath has simply been widened only up to the region that was anyway occupied by pedestrians!

As a result, even drivers have benefitted from these footpaths because pedestrians not walking on the carriageway has reduced the stress of driving.

So we decided to see what percentage of people walk on the footpaths, and here is what we found!

* F4 and F6 are not among the newly designed footpaths. This shows that the new footpaths are indeed working to a large extent!