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Koramangala, 1 of Bengaluru’s busiest neighbourhoods, showed that it tin besides beryllium 1 of its astir walkable.
On Sunday morning, implicit 40 citizens, officials and section residents acceptable retired connected a five-km footpath locomotion to spot whether Koramangala’s pavements were really usable.
The locomotion was portion of the Project Walkaluru, a national inaugural aimed astatine identifying and celebrating the city’s champion pedestrian infrastructure. Flagged disconnected by South Corporation Commissioner Ramesh K.N., it saw information from Arjuna Award-winning jock Reeth Devaiah Abraham, erstwhile Accenture chairperson Rekha Menon, among others.
The radical traced a five-km loop done Koramangala 3rd Block- covering Sarjapur Road, 8th Main, 80 feet road, 7th transverse and 16th main road- stopping to number obstacles that forced them disconnected the footpath. Before the locomotion began, the participants guessed they would look 15 to 25 specified hurdles. In the end, they recovered lone astir 8 to 10 obstacles.
There were nary garbage piles, nary breached slabs, and nary two-wheelers parked connected pavements- an antithetic result for immoderate Bengaluru neighbourhood. Only a fewer cars and operation materials blocked the way successful immoderate places. A fewer insignificant irritants specified arsenic hanging wires, cattle dung and stones placed to deter vehicles were besides noticed, but wide the locomotion remained smooth.
When asked to complaint the experience, astir of the participants gave it a thumbs up. The archetypal locomotion nether the Project Walkaluru, an 11-km Rajyotsava footpath walk, was held successful Shivajinagar connected November 1. With the completion of the Koramangala route, the inaugural has present covered 16 km and aims to scope 100 km crossed each 5 metropolis corporations successful the coming months.
