New Delhi

Disability group seeks greater pedestrian safety

NEW DELHI: Disability rights group Samarthyam has in a letter to Delhi’s Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Minister called for making Delhi a world-class “inclusive” city by ensuring greater pedestrian safety and including persons with reduced mobility and disabilities in this category.

Samarthyam executive director Anjlee Agarwal wrote that while Delhi’s evolution from “Walled City” to a metropolis, supplemented with changing land use and travel patterns, has encouraged construction of wide roads and other facilities for a vehicle-oriented life, during the development process, pedestrian spaces have been shrinking and their right of way ignored. She said the vulnerable section of pedestrians comprising not only children or women but also persons with reduced mobility (senior citizens, persons carrying heavy luggage or the temporary ill) and with diverse disabilities have not been given due attention.

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