"Take pedestrianisation: they said they would make 19 kilometres of streets pedestrian and that's what happened," Asse said.
"The culture of pedestrianisation has always existed in [Mumbai]," said Binoy Mascarenhas, Embarq India's manager for urban transport.
Urban planners say Mumbai can be turned into a pedestrian friendly city – and that pedestrianisation can be cost-effective compared with other transport projects.
That means parking controls, tough road pricing, or pedestrianisation.
According to Nicholas Penny, director of the National Gallery, which lies on the north side of Trafalgar Square, "the chief result of pedestrianisation has been the trashing of a civic space".
That would require considerable expenditure by local authorities on pedestrianisation, clearing litter and dog mess, improving crossings and lighting, developing new walking routes and increasing policing.Some of the money, the document suggests, could come from congestion charges on journeys by car.
Progress in New York, by contrast the pedestrianisation of Times and Madison Squares and the creation of a citywide cycling network is "amazing .The problem comes down to governance.
A PEDICAB borrowed from a friend for a conference on pedestrianisation in 1990 got Steve Meyer pedalling what is now a fast-moving business.
Traffic on roads leading into Trafalgar Square is targeted for restrictions because planners are preparing motorists for its partial pedestrianisation next summer, when it will cease to be a giant roundabout and become a fairly peaceful public space once more.Another area badly affected by construction is Vauxhall Cross, one of the capital's most important road interchanges.
The pedestrianisation of the north side of Trafalgar Square is a step forward.
Across the country, we oppose housing, schools, pedestrianisation, incinerators, re-habs, congestion charging, even, in a particularly nasty stand-off in Scotland, a hospice for terminally-ill children which, its opponents snarled, would ruin a beauty spot.
