Walking Project

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-𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 #walking? -𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨, 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭? -𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤? -𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨, 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐭? #Walkability is still one of the most important, & yet one of the most overlooked, aspects of #urbanlife. From #safety and #accessibility to #publichealth, #cleanair, & #inclusivestreets, the way a city supports walking says a lot about 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫. Read this piece by our Founder and Director - @Nagarro, @SarikaPanda on why walkability must become central to the future of Indian cities. @TheGurugramNews I @cnnbrk I @PotholeWarriors I @RoadSafetyNetwk I @RoadSafetyTales I @IFPedestrians I @pedestriandaily I @walkingproject I @mbruntlett I @parisarpune I @rajeshkalra I @manashuman I @EuCyclistsFed I @cyclist I @climatepledge I @climatemessages

Join our weekly meet, now held every Sunday at 11 AM due to popular demand. Add the meeting to your calendar so you don’t miss it: walkingproject.org/calendar

A few scenes from our CommunityWalk #43 in BKC - Bandra East. Lot of room for improvement in the commute conditions to reach the most expensive business district in BKC. Do you like your last mile commute to BKC? Comment. #WalkingProject

Just a team of cool dudes out to streetview map BKC #WalkingProject #Mappillary

Join us for our last-mile walkability citizen audit walk in BKC in lead up to the BKCMoves event Date: Saturday, May 9th Time: 9:00 AM Distance: 1.9km Duration: 2 Hours Starting Point: BKC Metro Station What to Expect: 🗣 Conversations on pedestrian infrastructure 🏙 Discuss solutions to civic challenges 🤝 Connect with other walkability patrons. Register at: forms.gle/HFkw6ENVqLnJha…

Indian Roads Congress 103 Guidelines for Pedestrian infrastructure clearly state that such ramps are to be provided at both ends of such a zebra crossing. This is a no brainer Quality of Life Improvement! #WalkingProject

🚶‍♀️ Volunteer Call: Street-View Mapping Walking Project is looking for volunteers to help map streets this Saturday, May 2nd at 9:00 AM. 👥 Teams & Distances 3 Teams mapping ~5-6 kms each Approximately 3kms per person 📱 What you need: Fully charged phone Free Mappillary account Willingness to walk ~4–5 km Help us build better data for safer, more walkable streets. 👉 To learn more, Join the Whatsapp Group here if interested: chat.whatsapp.com/Ie6ZaYVEGBZ6xW…

We’ll be in Delhi this week, meeting like-minded people and speaking with an anchor donor to support the city’s walking agenda. We’re around all week—invite us to your street or neighbourhood, and we’ll walk it with you. Indoors or outdoors, we’re happy to meet you where you are. Join us for a Walking Project Delhi meet-up on Thursday at 5 PM at Chittaranjan Bhawan, CR Park, New Delhi. Register here: forms.gle/SBS5vdwreVxdem… Hope to see you there :)

Superpower without sidewalks. Not exactly a compliment.

@richapintoi @ckdadar Will not spend 50 crores on minor improvements which will benefit many more people for 200-500 metre trips. But 500 crores for something which will have questionable footfall.

An underground pedestrian tunnel network linking the Science Centre Metro station with the Worli seafront and the Nehru Planetarium will be developed at a cost of Rs. 521 crore, as part of the plan to strengthen last-mile connectivity along Metro Line 3. The project is expected to be completed in about two years, with a target deadline of 2028.

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@bhaveshsw @SarikaPanda Can you drop your email?

@walkingproject wow, such a good great initiative, can you help guide on starting one for #gurugram cc @SarikaPanda

We have tapped into a few, but it completely depends on how well the founders know us or our networks. The problem is that tangiblity is something we simply cannot provide. We dont build footpaths. We try to fix the systemic issues in the back end. Thats a hard sell to most corporates. Plus also we have a tiny team of 3. Simply making proposals takes up an inordinate amount of time which we have to balance judiciously to ensure we keep on working but also ensure that we can pay ourselves

@walkingproject @GauriSarin can you tap into CSR funds?

Source from corporates.

@GauriSarin And yes please do help connecting with any corporate who you think will support. HNIs should step into this.

Same reason why wikipedia needs donors. All the information is available on the web. Why need wikipedia? The reality is that there is a huge gap between guidelines and rules that exist on paper and actual knowledge or implementation on ground. Most of the municipal engineers we interact with have never read that there exist guidelines for construction of footpaths. Some who know, dont care enough to enforce their authority. Most elected representatives rarely experience the walking infrastructure and hence dont care if something is poorly desiigned or maintained. No one in the system has any systemic knowledge on the creation or maintenance of walking infrastructure. Both politicians and municipal authorities dont know there are existing guidelines for managing street vendors. We work in this gap to try to change the status quo.

@walkingproject Frankly, we are asking for end to end clean road and nothing too technical for the taxes we pay, you must punish the contractors and blacklist then for their poor jobs, why do u need doners..??

We can understand Mr. Pai’s distress. The daily lived experience is jarring. At the Walking Project, one of our closest areas of involvement over the past 15 years has been the roads of Andheri East and West, with efforts to improve road design, basic road markings, junction design, high-quality footpaths, shade, cleanliness, and more. Andheri Kurla Road, Sahar Road, Mahakali Caves Road, Cardinal Gracious Road, MIDC, New Link Road, S V Road, J P Road, every single road has seen sustained effort. From writing to government officials, local councillors, and MLAs, to working with architects and urban designers to create compelling collateral, to public meetings and on-street engagement, we have done it all. We even found our office in Andheri East thanks to the QMED Foundation. While companies and residents in the area contribute billions of rupees to GDP every day, and everyone likes and shares posts from @andheriwestshitposting when a flaw in the design or environment is pointed out. But when we try to fix those same problems, we struggle to find even 10 donors in Andheri willing to support our advocacy efforts. Everyone likes to complain. Everyone enjoys the instant gratification of posts and likes on social media. But when it comes to putting in time, money, or sustained effort, most people step back. Between the K West and K East wards, which together comprise nearly 2 million residents and another million in the floating working population, including the airport and numerous business districts, this is the most populated part of Mumbai at any given time. Talk is cheap. We have been unable to sustain our engagements purely due to the lack of resources and manpower required to engage consistently with dozens of engineers, bureaucrats, and officers across different agencies for any significant change to happen. Citizens. Put your money where your mouth is. Donate at walkingproject.org/donate @TVMohandasPai

@bombaylives @mybmc @MMRDAOfficial @Adani_Elec_Mum Our volunteers have been at the same problem too. Its some Squabble between BMC & Adani per our knowldge. We are soon planning to table it long with other issues to the local MLA

@walkingproject For nearly 3 years I've been following up with @mybmc @MMRDAOfficial @Adani_Elec_Mum for Streetlights from Gundavali to Chakala.. entire area is a dark patch, with broken footpaths and stray dogs..

First, @mybmc gives no pavements in most of suburban #Mumbai. If, by chance it has, a corporate grabs it-to prevent hawkers. What about pedestrians? How can a corporate take over, do what it wants, block? This is #Runwal Chakala, near metro stn, Andheri-Kurla Rd @walkingproject