At a recent event about city infrastructure and the future, an attendee said at the interactive session that things have reached such a stage that the Supreme Court, on Friday, June 19, in a judgment, had declared the freedom to walk on demarcated and well-maintained footpaths a fundamental right which has priority over movement by motorised vehicles. The highest court in the country had to intervene and pass a judgment on something so basic and taken for granted, or as a right in other countries.

The judgment came in a case of the death of a five-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a truck while walking to school with his father.