ABSTRACT

Crossing the road is potentially one of the most dangerous and stressful situations for vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists, chilsing or reconstruction of an existing pedestrian crossing, a broader picture of the traffic situation should be presented, in order to reach the right decisions.

Bangalore's low score implies that vehicles seldom stop for pedestrians to cross a road and often halt on the zebra crossing at signals leaving pedestrians with minimum or no space to cross a road. At times, vehicles are driven on the footpaths, robbing the pedestrians of their exclusive zone. More worrying is that the areas where schools are located, too, fared equally badly.

dren, handicapped persons and other. The most vulnerable are school children and senior citizens. Pedestrian crossing construction or reconstruction should not be done without proper planning; it must be planned in a wider perspective of traffic situations, in order to increase traffic safety for all road users. All proposed road crossings have to be sorted in order of priority, which depends on many different criteria, measurable and non-measurable