Ahmedabad’s first footpath was laid in 1925

When did Ahmedabad get its first footpath? Even as 75% of our footpaths today are either encroached or unwalkable, according to a UNDP study, the seed of road safety — the concept of making roads safer for road minorities was sown on December 16, 1925. The general board of the Ahmedabad municipality, that’s when Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was it’s president, proposed a traffic plan.

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