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▲ 5 r/BangaloreWalks+2 crossposts

Bengaluru has 3,841 km of footpaths. I walked 200 metres today and found 3 problems. So I built something.

I got tired of stepping around broken tiles, dodging bikes parked on footpaths and watching trees get cut with zero accountability.
So I built PathWatch — a free anonymous app for Bengaluru citizens to report broken footpaths, garbage dumps and illegal tree cutting. Geotagged. AI verified. Permanently public.
120 reports in one week. Zero marketing.
Turns out Bengaluru was waiting for somewhere to send it.
The difference between PathWatch and a BBMP complaint —
BBMP complaints go into a closed system and disappear.
PathWatch reports are public. Permanent. Visible to every citizen, journalist and activist in the city.
BBMP can close a complaint.
They cannot close a public ledger.
This community is the human version of that same idea.
Every walker. Every daily commuter. Every person who has stepped around a broken footpath and said nothing.
This is your place now.
Drop your area in the comments and tell us the one street that needs fixing the most. 👇
Report anonymously at pathwatch.in

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u/uncanny_narrator786 — 5 days ago
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Karnataka just spent ₹13,262 crore on elevated corridors. The data says this will make Bengaluru’s traffic worse. Here’s why.

Adding more roads leads to more vehicles — this is the most basic common sense our policy makers fail to understand.
Bengaluru has beefed up infrastructure with the Outer Ring Road, elevated flyovers, double deckers, metro and more flyovers — and still the traffic issue is persistent and ever increasing.
What happened to Silk Board? The signal just got shifted to Ragigudda. That’s it. That’s the fix.
Hosur Road has every kind of connectivity imaginable — and still traffic is always at peak. Always.
Traffic can only be solved by encouraging people to use more public transit. Slash prices. Increase frequency. Build more pathways and public infrastructure.
Instead the government completely fails to do any of this — they collect taxes and put civilians into never ending problems.
What are we paying for? Whom are we paying?
Look at South Korea. Seoul demolished a 6-lane elevated highway and replaced it with a walkway and stream. To everyone’s surprise — property prices went up, traffic reduced by 15%. Less road. Less traffic. Better city.
We are doing the exact opposite.

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u/uncanny_narrator786 — 12 days ago
▲ 431 r/bengaluru_speaks+3 crossposts

CM Siddaramaiah just approved 11 elevated corridors covering 75.6 km across Bengaluru. ₹13,262 crore. why it's going to be a disaster

Adding more roads leads to more vehicles — this is the most basic common sense our policy makers fail to understand.

Bengaluru has beefed up infrastructure with the Outer Ring Road, elevated flyovers, double deckers, metro and more flyovers — and still the traffic issue is persistent and ever increasing.

What happened to Silk Board? The signal just got shifted to Ragigudda. That's it. That's the fix.

Hosur Road has every kind of connectivity imaginable — and still traffic is always at peak. Always.

Traffic can only be solved by encouraging people to use more public transit. Slash prices. Increase frequency. Build more pathways and public infrastructure.

Instead the government completely fails to do any of this — they collect taxes and put civilians into never ending problems.

What are we paying for? Whom are we paying?

Look at South Korea. Seoul demolished a 6-lane elevated highway and replaced it with a walkway and stream. To everyone's surprise — property prices went up, traffic reduced by 15%. Less road. Less traffic. Better city.

We are doing the exact opposite.

We built pathwatch.in to make Indian cities commutable — starting with Bengaluru as a case study.

let me know your thoughts.

u/uncanny_narrator786 — 12 days ago