These barricades have become a hindrance to services like ambulances and fire brigade tenders who get bogged down in the stream of traffic and cannot overtake as the thoughtless barriers fence them in, and supposedly many a life was lost or property destroyed because help could not be given earlier due to these railings. They should remove them totally, as it not only causes traffic blocks, but also there is no thought for the pedestant, because gaps in this fence is so stupidly spaced that it literally serves no purpose except to harrass the older generation by making them walk further to get to a place. The pedestant in Bangalore is an unheard of word. Take a walk across Brigade Road, cross Residency Road, and you will qualify for the steeple chase. Further up the road, where Museum Road crosses Residency Road, there is absolutely no provision for the pedestrian to cross safely.
Nobody cares for the man in the streets.
If you have a vehicle then you have 'the power' to run amuck and scatter the poor pedestrian. Old people are afraid to venture out as they cannot cross the roads anymore. The police unfortunately have not not made human life a priority, hence we are going from bad to worse. If you are handicapped, worse still, you have no special place to park your vehicle, no ramp to enter buildings, so you would have to sit in your cars if you own one, or struggle up the badly designed flights of steps into buildings. Now is the time to stand and be counted as a Lover of bangalore, A Lover of the 'Garden City', a worthy Citizen of Bangalore, of India, and of Planet Earth.