Under the guise of road widening, many footpaths in Mysore have been reduced next to nothing. What is left is very often encroached by roadside vendores, commercial establishments for customer parking and residents for their private gardens.
Now another type of "official" encroachment of footpaths is reducing the usefulness of footpaths even more. That is the erection of large cement signboards for circles (and roads). I have enclosed two examples, one at the intersection of Ramavilas Road and Narayana Shastri Road.........
.......and the one at the intersection of Dewan's Road and Vinoba Road
These signboards are blocking the already narrow footpaths.
This problem can be easily solved by removing these concrete structures (which become unsightly very soon from all the advertisements stuck on them) and instead hang a metal signboard from a steel cable strung diagonally across the circle. Such cables can be used to hang traffic lights also. (Such an arrangement - as seen in the below photo- is very common in many western countries which shows both signboards and traffic lights hung from a cable).
