India, April 6 -- The Walking Project, a social initiative by an NGO that is working to make MMR walkable, has been conducting regular walks along with citizen participation, since August 2023, in different parts of the city, to analyse the conditions of walkability against the benchmark set by the Indian Roads Congress (IRC) guidelines. The team, Rishi Aggarwal, Vedant Mhatre and Aishwarya Tatke have till date completed 34 walks, covering a distance of over 65 kilometers. Team HT -- Sabah Virani, Shashank Rao and Shreya Jachak -- joined them on a few, and came away with these observations.

Byculla station to Delisle bridge

Visit: March 21

To our surprise, we had a great start with the pedestrian conditions in the area around busy Bycu...