Gurugram continues to be risky for pedestrians

Gurugram: The state government on its part may be spending crores in an amount to revamp the major roads of Gurugram. On average, there are eight deaths and thirty accidents occurring daily in Gurugram.

For a city that is witnessing about 48,000 vehicle registrations in a year, deadly accidents continue to be a major challenge in the city.

In the recent past even as a lot of work has been done by Gurugram police in improving the road infrastructure, lack of facilities for pedestrians continue to make the most vulnerable.

Pedestrians and two-wheelers lead among the number of casualties due to accidents.

According to an official date in the last three years from 2016-2018, there have been 545 deaths of pedestrians.

In 2018 168 people who were walking on the roads lost their lives. In a city where eight people on an average die daily due to road accidents, a major complaint about long has been that how facilities like footpaths and foot over bridges are not being set up by the urban planners.

The Gurgram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) has tied up with the School of Planning and Architecture to design a comprehensive mobility plan for the

city.

Improving road designs that can aid in reducing the number of accidents will also be mulled over in the proposal.