AAP blamed the government and the civic authorities for the poor condition of roads in the city. Also, BBMP and BWSSB blame each other. Aap Aadmi Party members performed a pooja at the seven feet sinkhole on Kensington Road toady. The AAP was protesting the state of the city’s roads and the indifference of the […]
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On Monday, the Urban Development Department released money sanctioned for road and drainage development in Shivajinagar; BBMP officials plan to allocate Rs 30 lakhs for a parallel drain on Chowdi Gali to combat waterlogging. On Monday, the Urban Development Department (UDD) of Karnataka government approved Rs 7 crore for construction of roads and drain in […]
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Due to the contractor’s strike all work has stopped at the food street, resulting in debris lying around and financial losses to the stall owners. Construction has ceased at Vishweshwarapura’s (VV Puram) famous food street known as ‘Thindi Beedi’. Stall owners and consumers, alike have been affected. Azad Kumar, a stall owner said that it […]
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While poor road infrastructure in Bangalore puts pedestrians at risk, experts and officials agree that road safety is the shared responsibility of authorities and pedestrians. Recent data released by the Bangalore Traffic Police revealed a 55 percent increase in pedestrian deaths in the city over the previous years. As of July 2023, 154 pedestrian deaths […]
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Pedestrians prefer walking on roads instead of navigating broken and inconvenient footpaths. People take the road instead of walking on broken footpaths on both conventional and Tender (Specifications for Urban Road Execution) S.U.R.E. footpaths. Tender SURE infrastructure is designed to avoid road cutting and major maintenance. Shobha, a 64-year-old pedestrian walking on Jayanagar’s 27th cross, […]
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National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) report states that in 2019, 1,570 deaths were reported due to road crashes near educational institutions in India. Experts said no footpaths, broken and occupied footpaths, lack of road sign-boards, lack of pedestrian crossing and non-working traffic lights near schools are a threat to the life of school students. Poorvi, 12, […]
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