Updated On: 11 May, 2023 07:56 AM IST | Mumbai | The Editorial
While the needing or not needing footpaths debate will be on, we need to introspect about footpaths in general. Pedestrians need to use the footpath wherever possible, instead of walking and many times jaywalking on roads

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Footpaths are the focus of a report about the new Delisle Bridge outside Lower Parel station, which is currently in the final stages of reconstruction. The bridge does not have any footpaths, leaving residents and commuters fuming. Shiv Sena MLA Aaditya Thackeray took up the issue with the BMC but the administration responded to his letter saying no footpaths are required on the ramp, reads a report in this paper.
This bridge was closed for traffic in August 2018, following a structural stability report. Now, five years on with the bridge almost complete, commuters have realised there will be no footpaths on the bridge.