Wider footpaths, more trees as Kejriwal calls for roads revamp

Footpaths that are 10 feet wide and have dedicated spaces for trees, planned spaces for vehicles and rickshaws, and rainwater harvesting systems built into the drainage system alongside roads — if all goes to plan, this is what 500 kilometres of arterial roads in Delhi will look like in the coming years.

The city has been looking at redesigning roads to make them more pedestrian-friendly as well as removing bottlenecks that hamper the movement of traffic for the past several years.

On Tuesday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met Public Works Department officials and asked them to prepare a list of roads, all 100 feet wide, to be “redesigned as per international standards and along the lines of the newly redesigned Chandni Chowk main road”.