Better Streets

Better Cities

Better Lives

Shreya

Gadepalli

ITDP Network Worldwide

Cities Active Engagements

Yearsof Results

Staff in 6 Regions50 30 100+

Catalyzing

Transformation

in Over a Third of

Urban India*Percentages of India’s urban population

What is development?

• More pollution?

• More accidents and deaths?

• More travel time?

What principles should guide us?

Equitable Resource Allocation & Access

Safety & Security

Environment & Health

Where does the sun rise from?

East

West

None of the above!!!

We ask the wrong questions!

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Which of these modes of transport

are the largest in urban India?

Cars & Two Wheelers

Public Transport

Walking & Cycling✔

How do urban Indians travel?

Walk

CycleBus + IPT

Taxi

Motorcycle

Car

Can Technology Help?

Yes and No

How does a city of

electric cars look like?Nearly half of all trips on foot or cycle

But barely any footpaths or cycling facilities

Over a quarter of trips on public transport

But barely any buses

Only a quarter of trips on personal motor vehicles

But they occupy over 2/3rds of road space

Women: 9/10 trips

on foot or public transport

WALK THE TALK!!!

“Where’s the space for footpaths?”

For practice to win Olympic Hurdles Race!!!

150-250 fatalities per million urban inhabitants per year

200 JUMBO JETS CRASH ON INDIAN CITY STREETS

EACH AND EVERY YEAR

ON NARROW STREETS (<12M)

Entire width designed as a slow zone

ON WIDER STREETS (>12M)

A separate slow zone

All streets need slow zones

CREATING STREETS FOR ALL

IRC Street Design Standards

Safe street-level crossing every 150-200m

On an artery with higher traffic volumes, a continuous

landscaped median is provided.

On a collector street, periodic median segments between

formal crossings function as pedestrian refuge islands.

For whom are foot bridges?

Pedestrians

Cars✔

FOOT-BRIDGES

Painful for Pedestrians | Wonderful for Cars

PUNE: First Indian city with Street Design Guidelines

Informing state & national guidelines

CHENNAI: First Indian city with NMT-first Policy

Hundreds of kilometers being retrofitted

TAMIL NADU: Transforming Cities with #Streets4All

DEMYSTIFYING PARKING

Parking is a birth right !!!

1 parking space(~250 sq. ft. with associated driveway)

= Dining space for 15 people

= Office space for 4 people

= EWS apartment for 4 people

Equivalent car space inclusive of circulation area is 23 sqm for

open parking, 28 sqm for ground floor covered parking and 32

sqm for basement (National Building Code of India 2005)

More parking will solve the

problem

More Parking Supply

Bigger Traffic Jams

Multi-level car parking can

solve the problem

So, what should be done?

Manage on-street parking1

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Price Parking Properly

2

High Demand >>> High Price

(Not More Supply!)

Reinvest Revenue

Smartly

Walking

Cycling

Public Transport

3 Create Parks, Not Parking

A DEAD CITY FLOODED WITH CARS?

A VIBRANT CITY FOR PEOPLE?

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