Walking, a Fundamental Right?

6th EuroIndia Summit & Mission“On Greening Cities”

Presentation Promoting Walk to Work and Transit Oriented

Development ( TOD)The Right to Walk Foundation

HyderabadOct 21, 2013

Scope of the Presentation

Present Scenario of Pedestrian Infrastructure What are the Issues? Why it needs to be Improved? Suggestions on how it could be Improved

Deadly Statistics Will You Walk?

On an Average, One in Every Two Deaths is a Pedestrian

Source: http://www.htp.gov.in/AccidentAnalysis.htm#Analysis)

Vehicular Traffic Flows and Modal Splits

Road Space Allocation

Allocate road space equitably. Plan for people. Not vehicles. Take buses out of congestion.

More people use bus, walk and cycle. But cars and two-wheelers dominate the road space

To Make Hyderabad Walkable

From This...

...To This

Team Effort

Pedestrians Crossing: Risk Your Lives

Pedestrian Crossing ( London)

Who Stole my Footpath?

The Many Uses Of Footpaths

Footpaths??

Walking Infrastructure : Germany

Footpaths??Parking Space of Course

Shoppers Plaza: Barcelona

The Start – Mehdipatnam( through petitioning)

Before After

Rally Aug 2008 at Manikonda

Before After

RTI Success: Responsibility of footpaths

RTI: Responsibility of footpaths– RTI filed by R2W in 2008– Responsibility of roads with several departments – GHMC,

Roads & buildings, national highways, state highways – Initially GHMC and Roads and Buildings department passed

the buck Result

– GHMC accepted complete responsibility of footpaths in the entire GHMC area

What are the Issues?

Social Issues Regulatory Issues Legal Issues Political Issues Attitudinal Issues Structural Issues

In Brief

Free vehicles + free fuel a deadly combination against non motorised transport

Understanding of Structural Issues No Act regarding Pedestrian safety/ Pedestrian infrastructure Planning Commission definition of infrastructure does not seem to

include pedestrian infrastructure Parking Facilities?? Responsibility of Footpaths and Pedestrians as part of Traffic

Why it needs to be Improved?What’s In It for Me?

Better Public and Individual Health Less Traffic Chaos Occurrence of Grid lock reduced Less Driver Trauma Better Public Transport Usage Better Tourism

Reduction in Accidents Saves Lives

Question to be addressedWhat’s In It for Me?

How am I going to benefit if footpaths and pedestrians crossings are better or people prefer to walk?

It’s Not Rocket Science!!

Public Private Partnerships: Creation of Special Purpose Vehicle

Encourage Out of the Box Thinking- Walkthrough demos

Market Walking and Make it a Cool Thing to do Develop Video games Involve IT for better management Link Benefits to Walking

New Markets

Marketing / Branding Walking Walking as a Choice Use of Technology in Creating Awareness : (quantify

carbon footprint reduction, pollution effect) Lancet Study: “To estimate how different transport patterns would affect health, the

analysis considers four alternative 2030 futures for London (an example of a large city in a highly motorised country) and for Delhi (an example of one in a rapidly motorising country). The results show that technological measures such as hybrid cars will make only minor inroads into the burden of disease from transport. Major public health benefits will depend on the introduction of policies that combine reduced motor vehicle use, more walking and cycling, and low-carbon-emission motor vehicles.” (Reference: The health benefits of tackling climate change An Executive Summary for The Lancet Series)

Walk the Talk

Decision Makers MUST USE PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Take Help from European Cities Value Human Lives

Footpaths constructed in 2011 and demolished in July 2013

Road widening

Misplaced Priorities

THANK YOUSOCIAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL EQUITY

THANK YOUTHOSE WHO WALK CANNOT DECIDE AND THOSE

WHO DECIDE DO NOT WALK

THANK YOUKanthi Kannan

www.right2walk.com

theright2walk@gmail.com

THANK YOUTHANK YOU