Following may be of some use to the organizers of this event. When you cross the road, time the crossing and see if you exceed the times mentioned below

In Bangalore today all signals have a 10 second pedestrian signal phase regardless of the width of the road. 

National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (US) voted to change the recommended walking speed to 3.5 ft/sec for the pedestrian clearance phase, and 3.0- ft/sec for the entire Walk/Flashing Don’t Walk interval - 

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that makes it 3.6 seconds to cross each lane of 3.5 meters + 5 seconds of gap before green for vehicles so the peds already on the street reach safety. So for 4 lane roads the minimum should be 20 seconds which is double what is provided right now & 27 seconds for 6 lane roads with a mandatory provision of a median refuge.  

The green walk signal should blink (or become amber) for 50% of the time for roads with no median refuge so people dont start crossing when the blinking(/amber) starts. Blinking(/amber) can be reduced to 25% if median refuge is provided.  

Also the 5 second gap between the red for peds & green for vehicles are not provided now forcing people to scamper or get stuck in vehicular traffic.

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And, there doesn't seem to be any pedestrian crossing anywhere in the vicinity.

It exists between the Petrol bunk & Bowring club, its a riased ped xing but no pelican light.

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One place which is crying for help is Tumkur road near Yeshwantpur station. Every morning there are thousands of people exiting the station and there is absolutely no provision for them to cross safely. As a result there is a constant jam. One can only hope that when the road and metro work is finished there will be some pedestrian infrastructure but I think that is unlikely, as the people crossing are mainly poor, so no one cares.

I would recommend having such a pedestrian walk there. Of course there is also need for some provision for the pedestrians to get to the massive TTMC about 400mts away. I'm sure there is nothing.

Ramesh

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Another place is - opposite Koshy's restaurant on St Mark's road. I had to indulge in a bit of rather risky jay-walking to cross-over last Thursday evening around 5PM, even after waiting for well over 5 minutes. And, there doesn't seem to be any pedestrian crossing anywhere in the vicinity.

@IDS  -  that's an interesting bit of info. And, surprisingly, it's the US, which originated the car culture, that's coming up with these pedestrian friendly mandates.

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