The city’s footpaths are set to get more pedestrian-friendly as scraping past operating pipes of Distribution Transformer Centres is going to be a thing of the past soon.
The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) will start replacing the existing Group Operating Switches (GOS) across the city with new, redesigned ones that promise to no hindrance to pedestrian movement.
The power utility has already replaced 1,000 such GOS in two localities – Sahakarnagar and Banaswadi – on a pilot basis, Bescom Managing Director Pankaj Kumar Pandey said.
With close to 60,000 GOS in Bengaluru city, it will take about a year to replace all of them, beginning with the central business district and crowded areas, he added.
