Coimbatore is redesigning streets from a child’s POV

Streets around schools in Coimbatore are being redesigned to become safer and child-friendly, using tactical urbanism interventions such as improved crossings, traffic calming, and pedestrian-first layouts. The initiative brings together local authorities and urban design partners to rethink how streets function for children, not just vehicles. School streets at 10 locations across the five zones of the city, covering nearly four kilometres, will be transformed. This is a quiet but important shift. Indian cities have long prioritised speed and traffic flow over safety and usability. Designing for children forces a different logic: slower streets, clearer signage, and human-scale infrastructure. For India’s design landscape, this signals a move from infrastructure as engineering to infrastructure as accessibility. If streets work for children, they tend to work for everyone. News Source: The New Indian Express

News Source: The New Indian Express