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POLICY REVIEW

This means that simple solutions no circumstances, vehicle should age, gender, community etc.
like consultation with public be allowed to be either parked or Footpath should be a welcoming
before allocating designated ply on the footpath. space for people to move, meet,
spaces for usage on pavements; and talk.
be er management of spaces The designs for roads and streets
during night to avoid their aim at improved mobility of Footpaths must be unobstructed
misuse; changing a itudes; motor vehicles by allocating spaces with minimum breaks.
increasing the responsiveness of more space to carriageway. The obstruction should only be
officials, politicians and However, the same should not at property (individual owned
bureaucrats; and using technical be done at the expense of the or group-housing societies)
solutions like e-zone etc. for essential functions of the access points. The height of
wider application. footpath. The essential function footpaths should be low enough
of the footpaths is pedestrian so that commuters can board the
Spaces should be adequately movement and other functions buses at ease. The public transport
allo ed for all uses, whether such as formal-informal especially buses should stop
parking or provision of public vending, planting of trees, next to footpaths for ease of
toilets or small shops for provision of utilities and other alighting from the buses. A ramp
providing basic necessities so social activities cannot be easily should be provided for be er
that such facilities shall not accommodated over the access to physically challenged
encroach upon common public restrained width provided for persons. The barrier free
space like roads and pavements. the footpath. The footpaths movement should be facilitated
The shops selling the products should be of adequate width for for ease in pedestrian movement.
injurious to health should not be facilitating pedestrian
allowed in the range of 500 movements and space for other The right to Road Space for
meters to 1 kilometer from usage shall be separately interaction should be considered
residential apartments. Under all allocated for unhindered walk for creation of safe public spaces.
circumstances, obstruction of ability of pedestrians. The encroachment on pavements
walkways for women and kids and footpaths should be
should not be permi ed and Most of the pedestrians' begin or removed for creating safe spaced
provision of footpaths without end their trips using public within cities. The actions should
any obstruction is a must for safe transport or private vehicle at be initiated to stop further
movement. Gender mainstreaming footpaths. Thus, as an essential encroachments over footpath.
is required while designing the component in transportation Such actions should be above the
public space in urban areas for planning, footpaths should be compulsion of vote bank
provision of safe spaces. provided to accommodate politics. The bureaucrats should
pedestrians. All the streets be entrusted with the
Due to the exponentially rising should be provided with responsibility of regulating the
number of private vehicles on footpaths of adequate width and spaces and be penalized if any
the roads, retaining adequate continuity shall be maintained encroachment is found in the
space for footpaths is becoming for thorough movement of the areas under their jurisdiction.
difficult. The footpaths, which pedestrians. The design of
once acted as gathering spaces footpath should be such that The community should be
and market areas, are mere they shall create safe and easily sensitized so that transgenders
conduits for traffic movement or accessible spaces and are live a dignified life rather than
parking the vehicle. Hence, there sensitive to the local context. being dependent on begging and
should be control in the number They should be accessible to all extortion at public spaces. The
of registered vehicles and under the users irrespective of their public space requirements for
LGBT group as a sub-section of

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