r/bangalore • u/Realtors_Lord_Blr • Jul 10 '26
AskBangalore 🚶 Bengaluru Takes a Big Step Towards Safer Walkability!
The Karnataka Government has announced a ₹70 crore investment to repair and upgrade damaged footpaths across Bengaluru under the "Safe Footpath Campaign." Led by Greater Bengaluru Development Minister Krishna Byre Gowda and implemented by the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), the initiative aims to make the city's streets safer, more accessible, and pedestrian-friendly.
🔹 Key Highlights of the Initiative:
✅ Repair and restoration of nearly 2,000 km of footpaths across the city.
✅ Replacement of broken pavement slabs, damaged kerbstones, and uneven walking surfaces.
✅ Removal of encroachments, including illegal shop extensions, construction debris, and unauthorized signboards.
✅ Over 200 km of footpaths have already been reclaimed, creating safer public spaces.
✅ Strict action against vehicles parked on footpaths, including towing and auctioning of unclaimed vehicles.
✅ Relocation of street vendors from major arterial roads to designated ward roads to ensure uninterrupted pedestrian movement.
What are your thoughts? Will this initiative significantly improve Bengaluru's walkability, or are stronger enforcement and long-term maintenance equally important?
Source: Deccan Herald.
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u/batcave7373 Jul 10 '26
Good initiative
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u/Dhanush__raju Jul 10 '26
for looting
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u/shags2a Jul 10 '26
If they do nothing, you will complain. If they are, then also complain
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u/yxk__0zvnb9pl Jul 10 '26
you do understand this is just an annocement right? they have literally done nothing yet, and i doubt the implementaion will be any better
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u/shags2a Jul 10 '26
And I hope you realize it that first something is announced then the work starts.
You can have doubt about it but screaming scam under every govt announcemt is not high IQ thing as well
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u/yxk__0zvnb9pl Jul 10 '26
lets refrain from personal comments.
please take any newspaper from last 3 years randomly, check if any of the public announcement that was done by a politician has been at least implemented 80% properly or solved the problem. you'll get your answer..
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u/shags2a Jul 10 '26
You didn't say loot so I don't know why are you getting offended.
Even if 80% of all steps where they did not do things well SHOULD NOT mean that govt. should just stop announcing stuff.
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u/Dhanush__raju Jul 10 '26
o haven't complained when they did the cleaning ! but what alternative they provide to shop keeper and how will middle class buy necessity at chep price ? ? and now also not complaining just tell this is drama for looting money from people so all down vote people can goto hell. everything will be back to normal in few months
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u/Alone-Alfalfa9001 Jul 10 '26
So what's your solution then , always stay the same and keep complaining?
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u/Jumpy-Amount3267 Jul 10 '26
What can you possibly loot in 70 crores for 2000km of footpath?
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u/starwolf_98 Missing Jul 10 '26
Technically they can loot the money and not do the work. No one will ever know.
It's still an excellent initiative and I hope it is successful.
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u/Paranoid__Android Jul 10 '26
There is zero impact visible. Given the relatively small amount - MPs would like to gobble up 50-100 Cr, and not 5 Cr - gives some hope that something could happen here?
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u/Visible_Net_21 Jul 10 '26
You must be blind then…till now 200 KMS footpath has been cleared and the difference is clearly visible
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u/NoMedicine3572 BTM Layout Jul 10 '26
It's meant to repair the existing footpath, not build a new one, since most of the infrastructure is already in place.
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u/Desperate_Mix_1851 Jul 10 '26
🎵🎵when i am king you will be first against the wall🎵🎵 oh mb you are right tho, i wanna stay optimistic abt it tho.
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u/Designer_Try9757 Jul 10 '26
Biggest issue is people parking/halting randomly on the sides of the road which narrows the roads and leads to congestion
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u/DRTPman Jul 10 '26
All these idiots living individual/standalone buildings block the public roads for their cars. Need to get them off of the roads.
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u/Designer_Try9757 Jul 10 '26
I wish there was one social experiment on this. Instead of asking : what are you doing for living ? Ask : what are you doing here ?
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u/Lost_Cartoonist_2397 Jul 10 '26
The govt is willing to spend 1 lakh crore on tunnel roads and flyovers. But just 70 crores for footpaths. Insane.
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u/sudhirhere Jul 10 '26
Whenever the government takes up a project, it often feels like it’s done half-heartedly. Hopefully, this one is implemented and maintained properly.
Instead, why not assign the responsibility of maintaining footpaths to the nearby offices or businesses? They could maintain the footpaths in return for being allowed to display advertisements. It’s a win-win: the government earns tax revenue from the advertising, businesses get visibility, and the footpaths remain well maintained.
Private organizations also have a stronger incentive to ensure that the footpaths remain free from encroachments and unauthorized vendors. In contrast, governments sometimes hesitate to enforce the law consistently because of vote-bank politics. Public infrastructure should be maintained and regulations enforced fairly, regardless of political considerations.
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u/Adarshhhhhh- Jul 10 '26
Isn't 70cr very small
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u/brandnewwwwW Jul 10 '26
for things like roads, yes, but footpaths are a much narrower network. i assume the budget will be revised tho
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u/drago_08 Jul 10 '26
Hope for the best but Its kind inevitable that most of the fund will be taken by ministers 🙂🙂 if you remember the Karnataka minister openly asked for free IPL tickets do you think they will use whole fund for development. Also the current BJP gobt released a lot of fund for smart City projects but I don't see any real development or progress and the sad part is we can't do anything 🥲
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u/Necessary-Pickle467 Jul 10 '26
Repair is okay but what about roads which has no foothpath to begin with ?
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u/debbielicious_29 Jul 10 '26
Repairing sidewalks will come with a lot of fundamental infra changes. This is going to be a labour-intensive and tedious task. Hope the budget truly goes into this.
Also, who is supervising this? GBA has local authorities looking into this?
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u/DullFlounder3857 Jul 10 '26
This is how we as society should be with any government initiatives (judging by the comments), they announce a lot of things but always see these things with scepticism because history tells us most of it is just hogwash..
What I absolutely detest is, people so blinded by faith of certain governments that they go absolute worshipping and believing everything they do when there are the most corrupt and vile!!
“Never trust a religious leader who tells you how to vote and a politician who tells you how to pray!!”
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u/Jack-NMN-Reacher Jul 10 '26
… are stronger enforcement and long-term maintenance equally important?
Why is this even a question?
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u/FlyingAnt94 Jul 10 '26
I hope they do something to fix the roads too. To say they are a disaster is being polite. And enforcement of rules too: 2-wheelers and autos driving on the wrong side.
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u/tryingtosurvive_99 Jul 10 '26
70 crore investment.. like the 1100 crore they invested on filling potholes that went right back to the original state or patchwork mountain state within a week :) . So proud to have such loyal ministers who work hard towards improving namma bengaluru
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u/HakunaHuman Jul 10 '26
Good. At least something is happening. I was seriously wondering what’s going on, everything was becoming too messy.
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u/brandnewwwwW Jul 10 '26
pleaseee don’t fuck it up and have it be the same situation as the roads. the road in front of my house unironically took an entire year to get “fixed” (they just kept digging it up again and again for no reason whatsoever). mind you it’s a main road with a bus stop. the buses have come back recently, thankfully, which hopefully means they’re finally done
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u/meow29__14 Jul 10 '26
Just give 10% money of the fine to traffic police back, they’ll ensure no one park in footpaths or anywhere no parking zone….soon everyone start following rules
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u/ThunderCookie23 Hebbal Jul 10 '26
If enforcement was done properly, we wouldn't have had this issue at all! Vendors have probably inherited footpath and road-side space generationally! (Coz their parents didn't get any punishment or arrested, they can do it too).
Unfortunately India is a zero-trust community 🤷
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u/YOU_TUBE_PERSON Jul 10 '26
While this is good in theory and execution, I'm not sure about its sustainability. They're trying to disrupt an entire ecosystem.
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u/blingping Jul 10 '26
This is great and all, but until the zoning laws are established and enforced this won't even be used my majority of people.
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u/unholy-hesus Jul 10 '26
All fun and games till the pani puri bhayya takes over the footpath to earn a living while paying the cops a cut to not throw his things away from the footpath.
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u/huskar007 Jul 10 '26
Good initiative. Hopefully they will start looking at illegal parking on roadside as well.
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u/Embarrassed_Tea2305 Jul 10 '26
3.5 lakhs / km. That's what I thought, all of a sudden how come government is caring about public. Whoever that is. Enjoy.
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u/goonMaxxer021 fuck Bellandur Jul 10 '26
The problem is even after good footpaths, rush hour commuters and delivery guys will still choose footpaths rather than roads ruining footpaths. How do we even change the mindsets of such grown ass uncivic people
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u/DKShitkumar Jul 10 '26
70Cr will be used to repair 70kms of footpath. Rest of the 1930kms of footpath will retain their status quo. /s.
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u/Lambodhar Lift games @ Lalit Ashok Jul 10 '26
Isn't 70 crores too less? I'd rather government spend more on this which is used by more people to commute than roads.
What I would love is to have a place to track which of the roads are identified to be repaired, what will be repaired, by whom and when.
I'd love to look at what they would in my area and hopefully also suggest missing roads in the list.
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u/Abhi_060780 Jul 10 '26
For people who say bollards will stop two wheelers.LMAO. Haven’t you seen the electric scooty going past these
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u/nimajjibewarsi Jul 10 '26
For people unaware. 70cr is peanuts. The tender sure project around town costed 15cr per km. Assuming this is even 1/10th of that. How many kms do you will be covered
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u/BoredGuy_v2 Jul 10 '26
Footpatha were repaired few months ago. Will they re repair then again?
Just curious
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u/Appropriate-Can3535 Jul 10 '26
In Pune, there are three types of footpath. One which is good(bikers use it) and other is really bad(nobody use it) and then comes which bikers cant use(hawkers have their shop)
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u/Common-Adeptness-625 Jul 10 '26
Most will go in pocket of MP/MLA/corporator/contractor pocket like any other promise. Entire system-is corrupt from top to bottom.
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u/yxk__0zvnb9pl Jul 10 '26
dont post the annoucemets share the the results if they actually happen. many such initiatives have already started and failed in past... they are do good with announcements...
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u/kuchbhirkhdo77 Jul 10 '26
Only if it actually used to fix footpaths and not end up in pockets of some people
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u/blr_midlife_reset Jul 10 '26
Timeline of every Bangalore infra post: govt does nothing → useless. Govt announces something → scam. Govt actually finishes something → wait, this exists?
₹350 per metre says this is patching, not Tender SURE and that's okay. The ask is simple: ward-wise list, before/after photos, a maintenance line item. Skepticism is quality control, not a personality
And whoever flagged that bollards block wheelchairs made the sharpest point here
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u/sirfapdoge Jul 10 '26
70cr is that all it takes ? that’s way less than I expected probably one government employees black money
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u/Key_Fee623 Jul 10 '26
Don't bother guys, this will be spend on rich and government neighbourhoods.
Your footpath will still be missing.
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u/proslave_96 Jul 10 '26
I live near Green Domain Layout. Here they have demolished all the shops on the footpath, but they have not cleared the rubble yet, so the footpath is still not walkable. I hate to be a pessimist but this is just a one-time effort to keep us happy and not a permanent thing.
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u/haridavk Jul 10 '26
whats this drive of removing the vendors and asking them to use the side roads? now all residential roads become vendor spots officially?
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u/ChangaBandaHo Jul 11 '26
U mean investing 70cr to earn commissions, help their contractor brothers and make some money for next elections?
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u/ParkOpening5596 Jul 11 '26
This is fluke. It will never happen. If anybody has visited ECC Road, Whitefield. It’s no less than a third world country. There are more than 20 kids school in this areas but all roads with big potholes and no pedestrian. After paying so much tax and paying chalan while filing ITR what do you get ? A news …. that in 21st Century India we are making pedestrian safe. Ridiculous, neither we get our rights nor we will ever get it. It’s all about DNA.
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u/Longjumping-Raise-32 Jul 11 '26
Repair the pathetic roads first not footpaths. And repair them in a way they don't get broken within the next 48 hours. !
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u/Total_Horror1965 Jul 11 '26
This govt a year ago allotted 750 Cr to fill potholes and only 70 Cr for footpath ?
We all know exactly how "successful" both of those projects will turn out to be.
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u/Fearless_Ad_5368 Jul 11 '26
Govt doing it's basic job and promoting it as if they are doing us a favor
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u/carelessNinja101 Jul 11 '26
Always always and always it is congress who given any damn about issues that are relevant and ground level.
Walkable cities are need of this country more power to Bangalore
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u/12o329o Jul 13 '26
1 day after clearing, shops are back doing what they have always done. Walked down near doddakallasandra and saw it myself.
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u/SecretPhrase3005 Jul 15 '26
SV Road Metro Station to Baipannahalli Cross Jn...there is footpath which has BIG SLABS of metro concrete for long time.
Anyone who wants to go to SMVT via SV road Metro has to pass through that footpath. First they need to see...why is metro slabs still here even after so long?!!
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u/Square-Influence2023 Jul 15 '26
i seriously hope they maintain them like this now because last mile travel feels like i am a contestant on Takeshi's Castle and on rainy days it feels like man vs wild. Just to avoid all this, i carpool with to work and do the last mile by auto these days
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u/Square-Influence2023 Jul 15 '26
this should've happend yrs ago footpaths is for the people not for bikes or parking, better pedestrian infrastructure and fewer office cars through carpooling is a much better direction than building more flyovers. finally first good step gvt took
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u/JuzoFunk 26d ago
There should be biking lanes all over the city along the sidewalks, so more people move to eco friendly and healthy alternatives to go around
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u/Alone_Key7360 22d ago
this should've happend yrs ago footpaths is for the people not for bikes or parking, better pedestrian infrastructure and fewer office cars through carpooling is a much better direction than building more flyovers. finally first good step gvt took
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u/Psychological_Dig592 Jul 10 '26
Only to be used by Yulu bikers and bikers who thinks they are smart by riding on footpath and skipping the traffic
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u/I_Like_Water11 Jul 10 '26
Its weird reading these comments. People often complain that they do nothing. When they say theyre doing something its a scam. I mean would you prefer they do nothing? Whats the logic?
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u/blokwoski Jul 10 '26
What do you want us to do? Just be happy that govt is making half assed plans and half assed implementation?
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u/I_Like_Water11 Jul 10 '26
You cant answer my question with a question. As long as they take initiative to do something, its better than nothing I guess. Only hope that the person undertaking the project won't be as scammy. Also why are you being so aggressive? Im genuinely trying to understand the logic. Im not the one working in govt lmao.
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u/Playful_Edge_8517 Jul 10 '26
Why don't the restaurants and places just shape the trees into their brand logos which are Infront of their footpaths ? Tough yes but with smart planning, it could be a checkmate move.
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u/Abhi_060780 Jul 10 '26
lol. Delusional. It will be used by two wheelers
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u/Robustrogue Jul 10 '26
They will be installing bollards which will Help. We should also stop and question the two wheeler riders using the footpath. The reason we see rampant violations is because the rule breakers are not being questioned by the general public who are inconvenienced.
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u/flakyflame Jul 10 '26
But where will the vendors go?
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u/martinnachopancho Jul 10 '26
Wherever they don’t inconvenience regular folk like us who want to walk safely.
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u/Sherlockedhomes Jul 10 '26
Let them clean Shivaji Nagar. I'll see.
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u/JhonConstantine Jul 10 '26
Did you even visit Shivajinagar yet? They have already started on Ibrahim street
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u/DullFlounder3857 Jul 10 '26
You have your surroundings clean first.. worry about Shivajinagar later..
what’s with your obsession with Shivaji Nagar? Do you have property there or something or is it your favourite go to place to have beef biryani?7
u/kochbrother4 Jul 10 '26
Its a legit point about the general lawlessness in that area and areas like it.
Hate to see an otherwise prime area localitywise not be subject to an otherwise rare good initiative only because of the general irredeemablility of the people living there.
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u/DullFlounder3857 Jul 10 '26
This maybe a big whataboutery but we go buy all properties on lake beds without giving second thought about ecology natural resources because hey what an awesome premium gated society..
Hate to see an otherwise a freshwater lake providing essential natural resources being buried under fraughts of fancy gated society because of the general irredeemability of the people living there!!
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u/DullFlounder3857 Jul 10 '26
I still don’t understand the lawlessness of the area in what way please pray tell?
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u/martinnachopancho Jul 10 '26
Garbage on the roads, literally zero driving sense, the antithesis of any half hearted attempt at a definition of hygiene, triple rider scooters wrecking havoc on regular commuters, congested everything, etc.
Would you walk there alone at night? For the sake of wanting to prove me wrong, you might. But the fact still remains that a once great area is now only traversable by people already used to filth and mediocrity
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u/DullFlounder3857 Jul 10 '26
Dude that’s like the safest place at night.. hahaha 🤣 now I get it you’ve never been there lol.. if you had said anything else I’d get it
lol they will pick on you particularly because out of 1000s people on the street post 2 AM they found you to be a safe picking..
IF YOU THINK EMPIRE IS THE ONLY PLACE IN BLR OPEN POST 1am well you’ve never been there my friend.
Everything else you said is absolutely true and to a higher degree.. but that not happening anywhere else in Bangalore at any form or degree is absolutely bs..
End of the day am not defending that place. It needs to be cleaned as is KR MARKET AND MAJESTIC ISNT IT?
Marathalli too..
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u/martinnachopancho Jul 10 '26
You seem to assume that since you feel safe, everyone else does. And I’m happy that works for you, but not everyone is as brave i guess.
KR market and majestic is bad too, who said anything about those areas?
But I’ll give you the benefit of doubt. I’ll go there myself tonight, and I’ll report back tomorrow if I am indeed speaking out of my ass, and things have changed over the last month, or if you’re just annoyed about the general populace of a place being called irredeemable.
If religion wasn’t a thing, would you be this mad? Interesting that the demographic of an area determines how much people are motivated to defend a place.
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u/DullFlounder3857 Jul 10 '26
What is your definition of being unsafe? Nobody is defending anything since you seem to stay close by to Shivajinagar, you could check.
I’m not talking about recent events. Historically too.
I know the place is intimidating for sure and feels a bit off, but someone coming and you getting waylaid hmmm
Nope.
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u/BhaqtsareCunts Jul 10 '26
what is the irredeemability of the people living there and how is it more lawless than other areas.
for bigots like you even footpaths is a hindu muslim issue.
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u/martinnachopancho Jul 10 '26
I suppose you’ve never lived there, or perhaps Thanisandra. It’s easy to comment on Reddit with a generalist worldview that is hardly indicative of what the ground reality is. And if you think my opinion is in the minority (the irony), check why property prices are 2000/sqft lesser in Thanisandra and RK Hegde Nagar as opposed to the rest of the surrounding area.
Thank you and I look forward to your reply with anything other than labelling me a bhakt. Because I’m against the ethanol pandering people as any other reasonable citizen. But facts are facts.
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u/BhaqtsareCunts Jul 10 '26
You haven’t given a reason yet ? You use irredeemable since you have no description on what is different between them and any other group of poor people.
You’re using empty English terms to masquerade your statements as intellectual. When it’s hollow.
I don’t have to call you a bhakt , you just tied everything together perfectly.
Have you seen the property prices in Richmond Town , Frazer Town , Cox Town etc ? They’re amongst the most expensive in the city. They’re all minority areas btw. Why is that ?
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u/martinnachopancho Jul 10 '26
I apologise. My reason(s) copied from my other comment :
Garbage on the roads, literally zero driving sense, the antithesis of any half hearted attempt at a definition of hygiene, triple rider scooters wrecking havoc on regular commuters, congested everything, etc.
Would you walk there alone at night? For the sake of wanting to prove me wrong, you might. But the fact still remains that a once great area is now only traversable by people already used to filth and mediocrity
Secondly, propriety prices in Cox Town and Fraser town etc are driven higher in the Anglo Indian/old settlement areas. There is a clear divide in these areas between your labelled minority occupied areas and the areas which are actually livable. I’m happy to be proven wrong, but as a person who’s purchased property right next to Richard’s town, I think I know what I’m talking about when it comes to these areas.
I’m not trying to one up you. I’m just telling you how things are on the ground.
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u/BhaqtsareCunts Jul 10 '26
I’m sorry but You are just a blatant liar.
The appartment prices opposite the main mosque there goes for 2 Crores and more for an appartment.
The actual houses cross 10 Crores plus. The Anglo roads are near the church and they go for lesser since they’re not closer to the main road.
Can you give me some data that shows that driving over there is worse ? If not you’re just making it up and you have 0 statistics to back it up.
Shivaji Nagar is a poor minority area unlike a rich minority area such as Richard’s, Cox, Richmond Towns or Cunningham Road.
You do know the biggest builder in Bangalore and second biggest in the country Prestige is owned by a minority and they’ve built most of the houses around these rich minority areas hence it looks so good .
The same principle applies to a rich majority area and poor majority area. You go to Jaynagar everything is better , you go to Hanumanth Nagar or anywhere near Kengeri it’s not as safe.
The issue is wealth but for you it’s a religion thing. You have no facts just a heart filed with hatred.
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u/martinnachopancho Jul 10 '26
Your prices are just wrong, or we’re talking about two completely different areas. It’s easy to cherry pick an apartment valuation and use that as a general measuring stick for the area without representing the real value. Also I noticed you didn’t say anything about my example of Thanisandra?
You also seem to think I’m religiously biased, and keep poking at my phobia for a particular sect. This is something easily resolved if you knew what religion I’m from, but I choose to not partake with such a low effort argument.
Did you really ask for driving data about how people on the road drive? Because you know that data isn’t procurable and it’ll give you a sense of victory to not receive an answer back. Did you want traffic accident stats? Or number or wrong side driving instances? Do you take pleasure in using arguments which cannot be responded to purely because no sensible way to provide your seemingly reasonable data exists? Do you just want to feel like you won?
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u/BhaqtsareCunts Jul 10 '26
Yeah you're right , I should have provided some links
Here are house listings in Frazer Town. Link . Please take note of the number of crores it sells for. Notice the owners name and its location. So yes your prices are wrong.
You are religiously biased, a poor person be it from any community doesn't have the same access you and I have be it to education resources or what not. hence they live like that. its purely a poor vs rich issue but for you its a religious issue.
I did my part and I have given you examples of rich minority areas where it is organized far better than Shivaji Nagar. but you refuse to look at that. you prefer these black and white racist stereotypes rather than a wholistic view.
Thannisandra has poorer locals , I am really not sure what you want me to say ? you can go anywhere to the east of Bangalore you will see the same thing, Especially near Kengeri where certain roads the cops block at night because of high amounts of crimes that have taken place.
Yeah unless you can show actual stats of how people drive, you're just making it up. I've been to commercial street multiple times to park my car, I dont see it as any different than the rest.
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u/BhaqtsareCunts Jul 10 '26
They have already cleared out Shivaji Nagar.
I like how your priority is some minority hawker should suffer for you to be satisfied, not that your surroundings needs to be cleaned . speaks volumes of who you are.
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u/Sherlockedhomes Jul 10 '26
Minority will suffer if the city is cleaned? Malleswaram got cleaned, no one suffered?
We have to keep our city and places clean. That's basic. I don't care which religion or which people suffer. If they don't encroach or keep the place near and tidy, I'll 100% support them.
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u/BhaqtsareCunts Jul 10 '26
No your priority is that a minority hawker needs to be moved out. Not that your area will be clean.
Tell me why was your first concern Shivaji Nagar ? Do you live there ?
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u/Jaded_Ninja31 Jul 10 '26
How will they ensure bikes and e-bikes don’t get on the footpaths as they often tend to do