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HomeAuthorsAnusha Chitturi

Articles by Anusha Chitturi

About Anusha Chitturi
Anusha Chitturi is co-founder of The Footpath Initiative, a project to improve pedestrian safety in Indian cities. The project aims to understand specific risks that impact pedestrians, and to initiate data-driven advocacy in cities, starting with Bengaluru and Chennai.
A woman crossing a busy road
Infrastructure

Preventing pedestrian deaths: “Lower speeds, better street design are key”

January 31, 2020 Anusha Chitturi

Over 40 percent of road accident victims in Bengaluru are pedestrians. To change this, we need a long-term action plan instead of ad hoc measures

Data from 2017a and 2018 indicates that nearly a third of the pedestrian crash victims are at least 60 years old. Pic: The Footpath Initiative
Infrastructure

Pedestrian crashes in Bengaluru: Who are the most at risk, and when?

January 30, 2020 Anusha Chitturi

In the last three years, Bengaluru has been the metro with the third highest number of pedestrian crash fatalities. Where do these crashes occur the most, when, and who are the most at risk?

A pedestrian waiting to cross the road. Pic: The Footpath Initiative
Commute

One pedestrian is killed every two days on Bengaluru’s high-speed arterial roads

September 7, 2019 Anusha Chitturi

In 2017, 282 pedestrians were killed in vehicle crashes in Bengaluru. Majority of these crashes occurred when the pedestrian was trying to cross a major arterial road, like the ORR, that’s designed for maximum vehicle speed


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