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Vendors are the security, can’t you see?
Street vendors and homeless persons should be welcome on streets – between the two groups, they occupy the streets at all times of the day and night, providing stray walkers at night the security of not having to worry about being the only person on the street. And yet, we find that governments respond to their presence in exactly the opposite manner – Mumbai wants to get security to keep people from “encroaching” the elevated walkways when they could have gotten these “encroachers” to themselves serve as security – at so much less expense and freeing up so much time of the already overworked Mumbai Police. Continue reading
Posted in Bangalore, homeless persons, Mumbai, Needs of the poor, Pedestrian Needs, security, Skywalk, Street Vendors
Tagged eyes on the street, hawkers, Jane Jacobs
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