Mumbai’s footpaths remain largely hostile to those with restricted mobility — those with visual impairments or requiring wheelchairs to access pedestrian walkways.

The Universal Footpath Policy (2023) of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has made provisions to safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities, calling for the use of tactile tiles for the visually impaired, maintenance of sufficient distance between bollards to ensure wheelchair accessibility, railings between carriageways and the pavement to protect wheelchair-bound pedestrians from traffic, and kerb slopes to climb on and off the pavements. However, none of these designs has been implemented over the past two years.