[RtW] Man sheds 27kg in 6 months by walking

[Cor van de Water]

Here a man shows that without lifestyle or diet changes, you can
become healthy by just walking:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Man-sheds-27kg-in-6-mths-by-walking/articleshow/5341985.cms

[Kanthi Kannan]

Dear Cor and all

Thanks. It is strange that walking has become more expensive than driving :). Not really sure whether to laugh or cry but thought that I should laugh. Since laughter is the best medicine

More than 600 Crores are spent on an expressway that leads exclusively to the airport serving about 20000 people and also it is manned by 6 policemen 24x7. But the government talks about not having enough money for footpaths and pedestrian crossings.Each km of footpath costs about 30 lakhs and each manned pedestrian crossing costs about 2 lakhs. 

It is sad that the govt feels life is cheap .

Protest each time you feel that you are putting your life into danger. ( Each time you walk on the road or each time you cross the road without any traffic signal) 

YOUR LIFE IS PRECIOUS.

Regards

Kanthi

THOSE WHO WALK CANNOT DECIDE AND THOSE WHO DECIDE DO NOT WALK

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[Cor van de Water]

Kanthi Kannan wrote:
> It is strange that walking has become more expensive than driving

Hi Kanthi,
Walking is neither expensive nor dangerous.
It is the mix with the motorized traffic which causes problems, so in order to
allow motorized traffic and avoid casualties either the two needs to
be separated
(as in: available footpaths) or the road must be shared in a safe way.
There are many ways that can lead to a safe situation:
- if all traffic participants are courteous and concerned for each
other's safety then
the right of way is not taken such as you see today when you try to cross on
a marked pedestrian crossing (zebra path) but no car, bus or bike will stop.
- if clear lanes are allocated to different traffic types then each
just has to stay
in the allocated lanes to avoid conflict with other traffic types.
You typically see
lane allocations for two-wheelers on fly-overs and there are many
countries where
the roads have clearly marked bicycle lanes, whereas I see most roads in India
have a varying use of pedestrian, animal and other slow traffic on
the edge of the
road, though they sometimes take up more than half the road space, then a mix
of bikes, cars and other motorized traffic towards the center of the road.
But due to the mix of traffic and the unfortunate choice of many
slow vehicles to
stay in the right hand lane, most vehicles I see passing on the left side.
It is especially this mixing of traffic, combined with a general
disregard of traffic rules,
which is a potential lethal combination and as always the weaker
participants get
the worst part of the conflict.
I *do* try to cross the road in a safe manner and I *will* call out
the rude driver who
tries to squeeze past me while I am already crossing the road, so he
should give me
right of way. But I also know that I will lose a conflict with a car,
bus or lorry so I know
when to step back, take a breath and try again.

Guarded pedestrian crossings will certainly help, but I have not seen
them anywhere
on my daily routes - the only place where pedestrians cross under a watchful eye
is where motorized traffic needs an officer to make sure traffic only
goes on green
so the pedestrian traffic is "riding" on the flow of cars as directed
by the lights.
Still it is the motorized traffic that is the cause of the problem and
the ones that
are consuming the police resources and bulk of the infrastructure costs.
Cars do much more damage to a road than pedestrians and they take up a
disproportional amount of space per human transported, so cars are a very
unwelcome type of traffic user if you want to maintain an efficient
transport system.
However that is not what I see in the bureaucrats thinking and doing.
So what I can do is maintaining my daily commute travels by foot and
train or cycle
and tell everyone how I enjoy those and despise the times I am forced
to drive in
the stressful asphalt jungle.
Keep walking!
Cor.