If there is a barometer to people’s plaints and pain, it is the response to citizen-centric reports that are featured in this paper. There has been a barrage of responses to our series on pedestrian-friendly, or read unfriendly, footpaths, as a result of which pedestrians are forced to walk on the roads leading to accidents and in extreme cases, deaths.

This is naturally compounded in the monsoon, when footpaths become even more difficult to negotiate, loose blocks, cavities in walkways and slippery surface all mean double danger as one steps out of the home.