The streets of Northwest Delhi are ideally located along city level greens, thriving public nodes and metro stations. The vision for these streets is to create a recreational cycle master plan integrating these greens, public nodes and metro stations while enhancing the quality of public life and streamlining the pedestrian, cycle and vehicular movement. Northwest Delhi streetscape forms the major part of the streetscaping scheme of 500km stretch of Delhi roads initiated by PWD and Delhi government. The 36 km stretch of Northwest Delhi roads (including Shalimar bagh, Pitampura, Inderlok and Pratapnagar) form a part of a strong multimodal network comprising of numerous metro stations, bus networks, NMV and cyclists. Interestingly, many streets are defined through green spines (parks, green belts and open spaces). Creating equitable distribution of spaces, designing to enable safe access for all users, acknowledging the limitations and needs of each user group and their interactions with each other becomes the key aspect of the streetscaping for this package. The streets vary largely in terms of scale, function and stakeholder groups and hence the design approaches taken for each type of street are unique. The streets located along the greens have been integrated together through cycle networks that are designed to create an experiential public realm. Similarly markets have been developed as activity hubs and public spaces to accommodate all user groups.

The streets have been reorganized to provide safe and hassle free movement for pedestrians and cyclists, while strengthening the NMT and informal sector. The pedestrian movement remains barrier free and the vehicular infrastructure is designed in a manner where the vehicles are changing levels but the footpaths and pedestrian zones remain at one level. Further, the approach also looks at safe intersections, ideal design speeds, geometry improvements, parking management, technology inputs, and road infrastructure and capacity augmentation.

The other design provisions are urban signage and sculpture programs, landscaping of pedestrian areas and MUZs to accommodate street vendors and provide spaces along the road for every user group.