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Right to Walk Walking As AChoice
Making Hyderabad More Walkable
The Right to Walk Foundation
Hyderabad, India
Oct 2010
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Bravery Awards?
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Pedestrian Scenes Hyderabad
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Cool Walkway!!
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Wooded Walkway
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Shaded Walkway
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Ethnic WalkwayCan We Make It
Hyderabadi?
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Walkway and Gate Way OfIndia
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Walkways of a Different Kind
Solar Lit Walkway Green Archway
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The Outline of thePresentation
Pedestrian Infrastructure What It Ought To Be?
How It Could Be Done?
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How Should A Walkway Be?
A World Class Experience Safe and Accessible to All Pedestrians
Height not more than 6 from the road/ carriageway
Continuous, Flat Surface with Anti Skid Tiles
Enjoyable Ambience: Waterfalls, greenery like a 5 StarHotel
No Obstructions
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How Should A Walkway Be?
A Joy to Walk on Enough space for at least 2/3 people from both sides. Women
not like to be in close proximity of unknown men. About 8 to10 of walkway (2.5 m to 3.0 m). Enough space for at least 1
wheelchair. Enough Street Furniture for Temporary Rest
Clean, Safe, Well Lit, Well Policed
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How Should A Walkway Be?
Should Have
Space Demarcated for Utilities like Urinals, Drinking Water
Bus Stops
Kiosks ( With Tourist Information) Place for Hawkers, Cobblers
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How Should A Crossing Be?
Safe To Cross Preferably At Grade
Manned/ Policed
With Pedestrian Refuges
Time Calculation To Be Scientific No Free Left Turns
Sign Boards for Drivers
Well Lit
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How It Could Be Done?Mind Set Change
Market Walking and Make it a Cool Thing to do
Have Youth Icons like John Abraham Walk
Public Private Partnerships
Encourage Out of the Box Thinking
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How It Could Be Done?
HAVE PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS
OF LIFE DESIGN WALKWAYS.
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Taking the Walkway ForwardBasic Issues
Infrastructure Definition According to Planning Commission-
The GHMC ( Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation) website isupdated with the following data
-From the maps, the road width and the footpath width
-All RTIs filed and answers regarding issues pertaining to thecorporation
-Priority Areas of Spending
JnNURM Funds Allotted/ Proposed/ Used for Each Transport Project
Constitute a Pedestrian Safety Cell
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Walk ForwardLink Walkways and Other Areas
While Designing have Walkways with thePerspective of all the Linked Issues, Pollution,Health, Tourism
A Pedestrian Policy clearly stating the issue of
pedestrian infrastructure with TIMELINE to beOutlined
A single department / authority have to be in chargeof pedestrian infrastructure which will thereforeunderline the importance of the pedestrian.
Accountability to be Fixed- Road Accidents Needto Be Reduced
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Have Fun
Brand Walking Create Games With Traffic and
Pollution Promote Street Plays. Create Cartoons Video Clippings of Situations.
Humour/ Satire Helps
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Its Not Rocket Science
Announce the Pedestrian Policy
Have Authorities Talk about Walking and Walk/ Use PublicTransport to Work
Redefine the meaning of Walkways; Make it a World ClassExperience
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The single biggest differencebetween the infrastructure of anadvanced nation and a backwardnation is its footpaths, not itshighways,
Enrique Pealosa, the former Mayor of Bogota
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Paintings on Walls
Bhuvaneshwar MunicipalCorp
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Suggested Funding Methods
Right of Way: Corporates who will construct and maintain the walkways if they are allowedto charge a fee called as Pay and Use. It means that all cables that need to go through thefootpaths, the cable companies need to pay the corporate constructing the walkway.
Like the Metro Rail Corporation, a company known as Pedestrian Infrastructure.
Have a Walkathon and Get Big Stars to Walk. Auction Tickets
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Walkability Surveys
The Zonal Commissioner, GHMC has agreed in principle to fund the expenses of a Walkability survey for theentire central zone.
The R2W will be conducting these surveys with the help of planners, architects, students and senior citizens.
Implementation has been agreed in principle by the Zonal Commissioner, GHMC.
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Implementable Small Steps
Explore ideas to effect improvements with minor modifications. ( Particularly in junctions)
Try having discussions with shop keepers, and hawkers
Involve Local Welfare Associations
Have a Cleaning Drive and try to involve children of the local community
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New York Has Done ItGiving the City Space Back to
People
New York New York
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Is Money The Issue?
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Social Justice??
30% of People Use 100% of Space
DEMAND YOUR SHARE OF MONEY FOR ZEROCARBON FOOTPRINT
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ACKNOWLEDGE THE CRITICAL
NATURE OF THE ISSUE
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BE PROUD OF YOUR CITY. WALK
IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
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MAKE WALKING AS A
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT
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THOSE WHO WALK CANNOT
DECIDE AND THOSE WHO DECIDEDO NOT WALK
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THANK YOUwww.right2walk.com
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