Webinar on Instant street interventions to expand space for walking and cycling

Ms. Aswathy Dilip, Senior Programme Manager of India Programme of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), lead the session by welcoming the speakers, panellists and participants and inviting Mr. Kunal Kumar IAS, Joint-Secretary, Smart Cities Mission (SCM), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) to give the opening remarks.

The three presentations that followed were by: Ms. Aswathy Dilip on ‘Creating safe streets and public spaces in India’; Mr. J Sravan Kumar IAS, Municipal Commissioner, Coimbatore, on ‘Implementing tactical urbanism interventions’; and Mr. Peter Broytman, The Senate Department of Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, Berlin on ‘The Berlin cycling journey’. The final session was a panel discussion and Q&A, moderated by Ms. Aswathy Dilip with Mr. Kunal Kumar, Mr. J Sravan Kumar, Mr. Peter Broytman, Ms. K Vijayalakshmi, Managing Director, Hyderabad Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority, Mr. Raj Cherubal, CEO, Chennai Smart City Limited and Ms. Nupur Gupta, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank, as panellists