Assessment of pedestrian infrastructure: a case of Bhopal city

Abstract

Cities are for people but trends of development in transportation infrastructure within the city have prioritized vehicles over pedestrian. People who walk for transportation or pleasure face many challenges in the physical environment. Many people in the Indian cities wants to walk for utilitarian, health, or recreation purposes, but are discouraged from doing so. Urban mobility is taken as a synonym of making flyovers and freeways in many of the developing nations today. A large section of policy makers still feel that roads are meant for vehicular movement only. On the other hand, a person on foot or on a cycle is usually neglected. Merely pedestrianizing streets, diverting or controlling vehicular traffic movement, is not what is desired. Merging city fabric and people‟s mobility shall be the motive.