Summary:
This is a city for cars not people,” (sic) tweeted Satya Shankaran, Bicycle Mayor of Bengaluru. Shankaran’s 72-year-old mother, who prefers to use public transport to commute, came home with a wounded knee and severe body pain on Friday noon. It is so unfortunate that this city has become an unfit place for senior citizens and children. Unless we fix our pavements, we fail all the elderly and differently-abled in our city, and all of ourselves,” (sic). “Despite several complaints on the sorry state of pavements, which has been the bane of several senior citizens, nothing is being done..