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Practical exercise

Pedestrian survival: a five photo traffic safety log of your area

Pakistan has one of the highest pedestrian fatality rates in South Asia, and most deaths happen in stretches under 200 metres from home. The danger spots are not random; they are predictable. A blind turn near a school, a missing zebra crossing on a fast road, a footpath that becomes a parking lot, an open manhole, a transformer at child eye level. Today you walk your area with a camera, identify five danger points, and write a one paragraph survival rule for each.

90 min·beginner
Mimi the mascot, encouraging you

Now try it

Pedestrian survival: a five photo traffic safety log of your area

Stretch

Pick the most fixable hazard from your five and write a one page complaint with the photograph, location, and proposed fix. Submit it to your local Union Council office, area MNA's social media account, or the Pakistan Citizen Portal app. Note the response (or non-response) over four weeks.

Goes into your portfolio

A two part document: page one is the rough hand-drawn map of your 200 to 500 metre area with all five hazard points numbered, and pages two to six are the five hazard photographs each with its survival rule paragraph below it.