Both these roads are 100ft wide, but not a single foot is walkable.
100ft Velachery Bypass and Taramani Link road.
You can also add the road going towards Pallikaranai.
It's infuriating walking there.
Half of the 100ft on either side is wasted on parking.
Instead of designing the road for moving people, they designed it to move cars and bikes. So, there are very few breaks in the median, which encourages bikers to drive in the wrong side (hate these assholes) instead of taking longer way to take an U turn.
This country hates pedestrians. Every city in the world struggles from traffic, but only Indian cities are this hostile towards pedestrians.
For, the amount of people walking and taking buses in the 2 roads, I would personally restrict vehicle traffic to 2 lanes on either sides, remove all parking and build giant pedestrian plazas like T. Nagar. We can have nice street food and shopping that way.
It's just sad that we are just accepting this bullshit and going on about our lives. Velachery is one of the most populated areas in Chennai. If we come together, we can demand the city to redesign these roads. I just don't know how to go about it.
100ft Velachery Bypass and Taramani Link road.
You can also add the road going towards Pallikaranai.
It's infuriating walking there.
Half of the 100ft on either side is wasted on parking.
Instead of designing the road for moving people, they designed it to move cars and bikes. So, there are very few breaks in the median, which encourages bikers to drive in the wrong side (hate these assholes) instead of taking longer way to take an U turn.
This country hates pedestrians. Every city in the world struggles from traffic, but only Indian cities are this hostile towards pedestrians.
For, the amount of people walking and taking buses in the 2 roads, I would personally restrict vehicle traffic to 2 lanes on either sides, remove all parking and build giant pedestrian plazas like T. Nagar. We can have nice street food and shopping that way.
It's just sad that we are just accepting this bullshit and going on about our lives. Velachery is one of the most populated areas in Chennai. If we come together, we can demand the city to redesign these roads. I just don't know how to go about it.