Walking Project
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We aim to create a safe, convenient & enjoyable walking experience across MMR through grass roots advocacy, collaboration & govt engagement 🚶♀️
Mumbai, India
Joined June 2012
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Wrote about this quick and convenient fix to commuter woes in BKC, which see Mumbai getting a pedestrian bridge over the Mithi river. https://t.co/fKtiI76udq
A well-designed pedestrian bridge across the Mithi would immediately cut down the 2.7 km walk from Kurla to ONGC to just about 1–1.5 km from Sion and Chunabhatti, respectively — roughly the same distance as between CSMT and Kala Ghoda or the Bombay High Court. Distances which
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A well-designed pedestrian bridge across the Mithi would immediately cut down the 2.7 km walk from Kurla to ONGC to just about 1–1.5 km from Sion and Chunabhatti, respectively — roughly the same distance as between CSMT and Kala Ghoda or the Bombay High Court. Distances which
All BKC Employees, Listen Up! Let’s raise our voice to make walking to BKC safe, easy, and dignified. #Walk2BKC Our 3 Key Demands to Ease Congestion in Kurla West and Promote Non-Motorised Access to BKC: 1. Create a continuous pedestrian corridor from Sion/Chunabhatti Stations
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Sion station already has platforms for fast trains. There is a real possibility to decongest Kurla station of the BKC-bound crowd #Walk2BKC
All BKC Employees, Listen Up! Let’s raise our voice to make walking to BKC safe, easy, and dignified. #Walk2BKC Our 3 Key Demands to Ease Congestion in Kurla West and Promote Non-Motorised Access to BKC: 1. Create a continuous pedestrian corridor from Sion/Chunabhatti Stations
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We will be trying to meet the State Transport Minister in the near future to share a white paper of the plan.
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Over the past year, we’ve spoken to several officials at both MMRDA and BMC. Yet, there’s no clarity on the status of the proposed Sion–BKC road bridge. MMRDA folks say that the project is under planning with the BMC, while the BMC Bridges Department says they’re unaware of any
All BKC Employees, Listen Up! Let’s raise our voice to make walking to BKC safe, easy, and dignified. #Walk2BKC Our 3 Key Demands to Ease Congestion in Kurla West and Promote Non-Motorised Access to BKC: 1. Create a continuous pedestrian corridor from Sion/Chunabhatti Stations
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The Millennium Bridge cost £18m. In my experience it is thronged all day every day. This suggests to me: 1. It was an amazingly good investment; and 2. London should almost certainly have more bridges than it does at the moment. Is this right, and if so, where should the
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If Pune can do it, we can too
पुणे मेट्रोच्या छ. संभाजी उद्यान मेट्रो स्थानकावरून पेठ भागाला जोडणाऱ्या तानपुरा आकाराच्या पादचारी पुलाची शोभा आपल्याच हातात आहे... त्यामुळे पूलावर थुंकू नका, कचरा टाकू नका... कारण स्वच्छतेतच खरे सौंदर्य आहे! The beauty of the tanpura-shaped pedestrian bridge, connecting
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Watch the Explainer video here https://t.co/pF6CKdp3Qd
Pedestrian bridges between Kurla & BKC? Why build these and what do we have in mind when we say 'pedestrian bridges', do we mean just another skywalk? Explained in the video below. 📺Watch on YouTube: https://t.co/NmYoMefZWv
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All BKC Employees, Listen Up! Let’s raise our voice to make walking to BKC safe, easy, and dignified. #Walk2BKC Our 3 Key Demands to Ease Congestion in Kurla West and Promote Non-Motorised Access to BKC: 1. Create a continuous pedestrian corridor from Sion/Chunabhatti Stations
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They shut down the ramp 🤩 Problem solved!!!
Disabled people using ramp designed and planned by @MMRDAOfficial at such a great spot. Also a 6 lane pedestrian crossing with no traffic signal in sight. My MMRDA The greatest planning agency of MMR.
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We are doing street interviews at Marine Drive today between 4-6 pm. If you want to share your walkability grievances on camera, do show up around the area of the promenade closest to Churchgate station #WalkingProject
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We have 18 so far. 5 from you guys. We know there are more. C'mon Mumbai! #WalkingProject #Crowdsourcing
Ever come across an obstructed traffic island? Send us a picture at https://t.co/esNIWWmwgr
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May the evils that plague our walking infrastructure be slain by the arrow of citizen power. #HappyVijayDashami
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We have images of 16 locations so far, 3 of them are crowdsourced. Help us find more! 🔴 Help us with images of the intersections marked with the red icons. These are know to have obstructed traffic islands but we dont have pictures of them. https://t.co/esNIWWmwgr
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We have images of 16 locations so far, 3 of them are crowdsourced. Help us find more! 🔴 Help us with images of the intersections marked with the red icons. These are know to have obstructed traffic islands but we dont have pictures of them. https://t.co/esNIWWmwgr
Ever come across an obstructed traffic island? Send us a picture at https://t.co/esNIWWmwgr
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Ever come across an obstructed traffic island? Send us a picture at https://t.co/esNIWWmwgr
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🔴Live now #WalkingProject
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