roads and footpaths: the roads are quite smooth and without potholes. even humps are not to be found without warning post. footpaths are fully aligned with the roads and the houses. just opposite your house's entrance, you will find the footpath sloping towards the road. so your car will move from the road onto the footpath and into your house. footpaths are almost eight feet wide. at some places the cyclists are allowed to drive their cycles on a portion of the footpath. it is a great pleasure to walk on the footpaths. you are not hindered by the hawkers squatting on the footpaths. at reasonable distances you have telephone booths on the footpaths. you may call your friends and relatives if you have forgotten your mobile phone. if you do not have cash, you can pay through your debit/credit cards too. you won't find municipality's garbage bins on the footpaths or garbage collection chambers built on the footpaths. the level of footpaths is exactly six inches higher than that of the roads.

the roads have lane markings. marking for straight, left and right drives are made much in advance so that the motorists can easily change the lanes. nobody overtakes from the wrong lane just to get ahead of the other motorists. there are slots for bus stops. the buses while stopping will not block the following vehicles. if a bus moving ahead stops at a bus stop, the following bus will take turn to stop at the same stop and will never skip the stop.

at some places roads have four lanes, out of which a lane adjoining the footpath on both sides is exclusively marked for bus transport.

there are no open drains. the slopes on the roads and the platforms are so craftly done that all the rain water goes into the drain whole. one street in the greenwich area has long pieces of six inch wide iron jali strips are laid to cover the drains on both sides of the road. as narrated earlier the platform, road and the drain cover are so levelled that the pram can move without hindrance. another special aspect of this street was that the footpath was fully merged with the road, i.e., the level of footpath and the road was the same. undoubtedly, the street was open to the pedestrians only.

symmetrical buildings: an important aspect of buildings of london city is its victorian era architecture. it reminded me of the fort area of mumbai city. most of the buildings were four or five storeys. no sun-shades and enough of glazed windows in suburban areas also we find buildings with symmetrical designs and same heights. it makes the city very aesthetic. if high rises of new york are an attraction in the u.s., the oriental look of the buildings on both sides of the roads is a characteristic of london and its suburbs.

cannary wharf: cannary whart area is near greenwich, area where the imaginary meridien passes through the globe. while returning from westminister we took a boat cruise to greenwich. this area has a rail station by the same name. this area has developed in the recent times only.

the cannary wharf railway station has a very modern look. on its platform a transparent glass fibre wall separates you from the rail track. when train arrives, the doors of the transparent wall and the doors of the rail coaches will open simultaneously. another feature is the marking on the platform which depicts that the boarding passengers should stand on both sides of the doors so that the alighting passengers can first de-board. this station otherwise matches with the construction and designing of the delhi metro stations in elegance and convenience. there is a shopping mall also in the railway premises.

the cannary wharf area has several high rise buildings, where important commercial offices are located. these buildings have twenty to thirtyfive storeys. all exterior is glazed. it appears to be the new york of london.