On 10-Feb-08, at 10:32 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
Old Bangalore has plenty of those. Basavanagudi was the first "planned" area of Bangalore - under the Brits. But many of the extensions that came later lack this simple facility, although the most recently developed ones do.
The pavement along your road is indeed one of the finest Bangalore has on offer. I've long been envious of it.
The thing that bugs me no end is that despite whatever illusions of usability a Bangalore pavement may have, it doesn't actually work when one is actually a pedestrian. Either the pavement sits on top of a gutter and stinks to high heaven, or the gutter is dry but the slabs so uneven one risks twisting an ankle unless always looking down, or the pavement is an obstacle course, with trees and bus stops and power transformers forcing you back onto the road, or it's all fine but the pavement sits a foot above road level to keep out those pesky two wheelers, and therefore is interrupted at every gate, turning into a major pain in the knees.
Maybe people would walk on pavements if they were actually built to be walked on, rather than being mere buffers protecting one's property from vehicles spilling off the road.
