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The path untrodden
“THEY who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds,” said an enlightened American politician and educational reformer of the 18th century.
We pass through the Clifton bridge every day in our vehicles. But very few of us realise that besides getting from here to there or from there to here by wheels there are also hundreds of pedestrians taking the same route to get to the other side. It was for the convenience of these very pedestrians that the staircases under the bridge taking one up to it were included in the structure. But judging by their current state, they are never used and are as good as forgotten.