Across India's major cities, pedestrian infrastructure is deteriorating as urban planning increasingly prioritises vehicles, leaving residents — particularly the elderly, disabled, and low-income — marginalised from public life. The country has built more than 50,000 km of expressways and national highways in the last five years, including ring roads and flyovers in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad, but critics say this comes at the direct expense of safe footpaths, open parks, and street-level community spaces. In response, citizens are turning to civic technology to push back, including a new app called Rasthe — developed by a 14-year-old in Bengaluru (India's southern tech hub) — that allows residents to report damaged pavements and infrastructure failures to local authorities.