Indian traveller questions Indias city design after experiencing Bangkoks people-first elevated walkway

Published on: Nov 09, 2025 02:52 pm IST

A video by an Indian traveller in Bangkok had gone viral as he confirmed the town’s superior walkways.

A video by an Indian traveller in Bangkok has stirred a energetic debate on social media concerning the contrasting approaches to city planning in India and overseas. The vlogger, Mohit, shared the clip on Instagram, the place he’s seen strolling alongside an elevated walkway that weaves by way of the Thai capital like a well-behaved ribbon of concrete.

An Indian traveller in Bangkok had highlighted the town’s people-first planning by way of a viral clip that in contrast its elevated walkways with India’s poor footpaths.(Instagram/travelermohit)

‘This is true people-first planning’

Walking above the visitors with the metro hovering even increased above him, Mohit defined in Hindi what he was experiencing. The translation reads: “Right now, I’m strolling on a construction that’s truly above the bottom. The street is beneath, the metro runs even increased above it, and between them they’ve created this elevated walkway. It connects to a number of buildings, continues additional forward, and feels seamlessly built-in. It’s clear to me that every little thing right here has been constructed in response to what individuals really want. This is true people-first planning, the place improvement follows the wants of residents.”

He didn’t cease there. He added: “Back house, we now have bureaucrat-first planning, the place no matter an officer or politician imagines from the highest is just drawn on paper and handed to the general public with the expectation that they need to by some means use it. Whether it fits individuals or not hardly issues. This is Bangkok. If they’ll progress this far, why can’t we? Because our officers don’t prioritise it and our flesh pressers don’t push for it. Here the strategy is on a completely totally different stage. In India, we don’t even have correct footpaths to stroll on, and solely a lot later can we consider constructing walkways like these.”

Take a glance right here on the clip:

Going viral throughout platforms

Mohit’s clip crossed platforms shortly. On X, one person shared it with a pointy caption: “More and extra Indians travelling overseas and realising they’re being made fools of in India.”

Check out the submit right here:

The video has now garnered greater than two lakh views, and the dialog round it seems to develop with every refresh.

Several feedback swirled beneath the submit, making a crowded echo of frustration and aspiration. One person wrote that the video “felt like a mirror held as much as India’s planners.” Another mentioned it “exhibits how far behind we’re regardless of having the expertise.” A 3rd remarked that “officers merely don’t care until it fits them politically,” whereas one other mentioned the walkway “regarded like the long run we maintain promising however by no means construct.”

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