Little room for walkers: Street vendors, vehicles hijack footpaths
LUCKNOW, July 4 -- Days after the Supreme Court declared the right to walk on safe and demarcated footpaths a fundamental right, an on-ground survey by Hindustan Times has found that pedestrians in Lucknow continue to negotiate a maze of encroachments, parked vehicles, broken pavements and civic neglect even in some of the city's busiest commercial and institutional areas. The survey, conducted as part of HT's campaign on pedestrian rights, covered Hazratganj, Civil Hospital, Indira Nagar, Kapoorthala, Aliganj and Lalbagh. It found that in many places, footpaths either do not exist, are discontinuous or have been rendered unusable due to encroachments and poor maintenance, forcing pedestrians to step onto busy roads.P3...
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