Overview
- The civic body has floated a ₹100‑crore tender covering 14 roads to construct or retrofit 16.5 km of footpaths to Indian Roads Congress and Universal Footpath Policy standards.
- Work is split across high‑footfall sites: 6.40 km in the island city, 5.96 km in the eastern suburbs, and 4.19 km in the western suburbs.
- Planned features include tactile tiles, protected tree surrounds, seating in select areas, continuous pathways with lower kerbs, and bollards at junctions to deter vehicle intrusion.
- The policy requires pedestrian zones to be at least 1.5 metres wide with 2.2 metres of vertical clearance, allowing reductions to 1.2 metres only at bottlenecks or around obstacles.
- The push follows a Bombay High Court rebuke over illegal parking and encroachments, and officials say citywide upgrades across roughly 4,000 km will need 10–15 years, with additional funding under consideration next year.