"Why pedestrians are meant to go up and down the skywalk is just because your motorist does not want to go up and down," says Joshi, who thinks skywalks can never compensate for footpaths.
It aims to focus government attention on the lack of footpaths, increasing priority given to motorised traffic and resultant road rage, accidents and pollution.
On footpaths from B2141, four miles northwest of Chichester.
Of course, a driver can do far more damage in a car – or worse, a lorry – than any cyclist, but that's still a lot of cyclists jumping red lights and whizzing down footpaths.
Widening lanes for cars and making way for new housing has meant that footpaths in Mumbai have been shrinking every year.
New business districts in the city in fact have no footpaths factored into their planning at all.
That way you can put together even the longest of the British footpaths, such as the 630-mile South West Coast Path, from Minehead in Somerset to Studland in Dorset.
There are several hundred long-distance footpaths in Britain, ranging from 17-mile hikes such as the Altrincham Circular in Cheshire, through the medium-size (at 65 miles) Black Fen Waterway trail in East Anglia, and the West Highland Way in Scotland at 95 miles, up to classics such as the Pennine Way at 247 miles.
Given the lack of public spaces like gardens, parks or even footpaths, some people find respite in the spaces provided by the recently developed skywalks.
Footpaths, on the other hand, face a design problem, being barely a metre wide, and heavily obstructed.
Long-distance footpaths can be seductive things.
