{"id":463425,"date":"2022-01-22T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T07:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=463425"},"modified":"2022-01-22T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T07:07:14","slug":"road-to-the-future-pmc-to-develop-100-km-pedestrian-friendly-roads-after-pilot-project-wins-national-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/road-to-the-future-pmc-to-develop-100-km-pedestrian-friendly-roads-after-pilot-project-wins-national-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to the future: PMC to develop 100 km pedestrian-friendly roads after pilot project wins national challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUNE After being selected as one of the winners of the \u2018Streets for People Challenge\u2019 for their pilot projects to make roads more pedestrian-friendly, Pune Municipal Corporation decided to develop 100 km pedestrian-friendly roads<\/p>\n<p>Pune won the accolades for reclaiming space along several roads to create safe and exciting \u2018experience zones\u2019 for all citizens. The city activated these edges by painting the spaces, conducting laughter yoga sessions, music sessions and introducing kids play areas. Going ahead, the city plans to build wider footpaths and install street furniture at different locations, said officials.<\/p>\n<p>As the union housing and urban affairs Ministry appreciated it and rewarded \u20b950 lakh, now the civic body decided to extend it on other prominent roads in the city. Mayor Murlidhar Mohol said, \u201cWe have taken various pedestrian-centric activities. Along with pedestrians and vehicles, we converted roads for various activities and we are receiving a good response. We were also appreciated for observing pedestrian day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNE After being selected as one of the winners of the \u2018Streets for People Challenge\u2019 for their pilot projects to make roads more pedestrian-friendly, Pune Municipal Corporation decided to develop 100 km pedestrian-friendly roads Pune won the accolades for reclaiming space along several roads to create safe and exciting \u2018experience zones\u2019 for all citizens. The city activated these edges by painting the spaces, conducting laughter yoga sessions, music sessions and introducing kids play areas. Going ahead, the city plans to build wider footpaths and install street furniture at different locations, said officials. As the union housing and urban affairs Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}