Making Walking Safer in our Cities

·       Delhi accounts for one in every six pedestrian deaths (3) (17 % of all pedestrian deaths) in India while its population is 1 % of India. So the city is so inimical to pedestrians that 17 times more of them are dying here compared to its population.

In 2009, the proportion of pedestrians killed in Mumbai, Delhi and Kota were 79, 47 and 28 per cent respectively (5).

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Excerpted from : (1) Make Walking Safe, by WHO (2) Guidelines from Pedestrians, by Delhi Traffic Police (3) Delhi is the road death capital too, Jun 25, 2013, Times of India (4) Plan to make city roads safer for pedestrians, Subhendu Ray, Hindustan Times  New Delhi, December 15, 2011(5) Talks on pedestrian safety project, Maroosha Muzaffar : New Delhi, Thu Oct 29 2009 (6) Traffic Accidents in India, 2010, Ministry of Road Transport, GoI (7) Road Accidents Study, Manisha Desai