Foot Bridge for the elderly!

It is not new. It is not a brain wave. It is once in a while announcement by the traffic police. Three deaths of elderly people aged 60 & 73 on the same day made them announce once again that foot bridge is being contemplated to help pedestrians cross over and thus hope to reduce the accidents. But did they consider the following:

1. Can the elderly climb the stairs?

2. Are the existing foot bridges being used and if not why so?

3. Are there enough space on both sides of the road to build a foot bridge?

4. Will the foot bridge solve the problems of no foot path or unusable foot path, if they exist?

5. What is there to stop our tankers, buses and lorries crashing against the foot bridges?

6. Will the foot bridges facilitate the flow of non-crossing pedestrians by having spaces to walk around them?

7. If the answer is negative to 6 then will not the pedestrians walk on the road which is the perennial problem?

As it has been already mentioned in some other post the problem to be tackled is haphazard parking which not only reduces the width of already narrow roads but also force the pedestrians to walk in the middle of the road.

Then where will they park? They should have enough parking lots. The parking fee should be small and the fine for parking in no parking zone heavy. The roads are public property. That does not mean we can use them for our private use, be it parking or urinating. Maybe the people who park their vehicles on roads, whether it is in front of their homes/flats or elsewhere should be treated as encroachers of public land.