The metro station from our community is hardly half a kilometer from our place, yet getting to it is an exercise in alpine hiking with the amount of holes and cracks on the pavement leading to it. The pavement is half functional to the point that people can use it but it makes half a kilometer journey a good 15-20 min exercise. I was like damn only if they improved and rebuilt the pavement it would be so convenient for all the metro travelers and maybe even encourage more people to walk and use it! To which my dad replied, this is by design. If they actually rebuilt the pavement and made it nice and smooth, all the two wheeler drivers on their bikes and mopeds would start driving on it immediately. And then it would just become a road for two wheelers and whatever remaining people who could walk to metro will have no more option! So a broken pavement right now actually ensures people have a path to walk, and keeps the two wheelers away so it’s not a bad thing! As I said, India is not for beginners.
Spaceman Spiff to the rescue