Pathetic.
At least there is a pedestrian walkway, and it is safe from motorized traffic. It might not be perfect, but it is way better than people having to walk on the road basically unprotected like anywhere else in the city.
No. Settling for half-assed bullshit like this is exactly how this country got to where it is. The powers that be realized we’d settle for anything and they could skim as much as they liked off the top of our taxes while distracting us with inane bullshit.
That might be for you locally, but why didn’t you get involved in the concepts of the bridge? Maybe imply that a better walkway (and somewhat protected walkway is better than none, in most part of the worlds) might give them some Good Marketing points, like, some life hating bloggers might write up on it and it gains traction, praising the district and developers for their environmental efforts. Look, the fight doesn’t have to be pretty, as long as you get results.
My government doesn’t give a flying fuck about “good marketing”, they only care about money and power, which their corporate overlords are more than happy to provide in exchange for…(lots of) money and (real) power. We’ve been agitating for better pedestrian access in the city for years now and this is the bare minimum we got. We’re still raising hell about it
Yeah but not spreading to also cover good marketing is like a bad example to increase money and power. Little investment, great profits.
But yo, keep up the good fight! The fact you don’t give up against all odds is inspiring. I wish you the best!!
I don’t know how it is in never-colonized countries, but here, local bodies don’t get much by way of taxes and infrastructure spending is by state or national government since all income and business taxes go to them ala colonial administration. Locals don’t have leverage over infrastructure projects, and local body politicians have no pressure from locals over their handling of non-infrastructure funds.
Thank god there aren’t many people living there. /s
Not to sound like a rich snob, but it feels like you can see the developmental status of a country by the methods one can get from A to B without car. In Europe, especially Northern Europe, this bridge would have been 4 laned: 2 in the middle for cars and the two outer ones for bike and walking
Or a second bridge a bit further only for pedestrians and cyclists so you don’t even have to be near the cars and the walk or cycle becomes even more attractive and less noisy
especially Northern Europe
Urban yes, countryside not so much. I drive 10km to work along a narrow & winding 2-lane road with 80km/h speed limit. Not even a strip for pedestrians/cyclists let alone an actual lane. And that’s in the relatively densely populated South of the country.
I get the right side barrier, but what the heck with the left side? Wouldn’t that just bounce the sound from the road right into the walkway?
$10 says anti-suicide.
Seems pretty terribly designed, if you can’t just get up it you can you the lower easier to climb barriers on the right, and step over.
But they could also jump before and after that section, not so anti-suicide ehh.
It’s to stop people from jumping and landing on the train tracks under the bridge. They don’t care if you jump anywhere else, just not on the tracks
Ahh ok, makes sense.
Jesus … please someone paint some lanes on the road, this is madness.
Well its normal for about 1.5 billion people with about the same fatality rate as the rest of the world. It’s chaos and madness but it seems to work for them arguable about the same as organised traffic countires.
Fuck cars in general for sure, I’d prefer no death machines around me, but having lanes doesn’t make it safer in my opinion, having more attentive drivers kind of makes it safer.
Sprite of Mumbai!
