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In the developing countries like India the safety issue are very least for pedestrians, which is the most vulnerable road user in urban transportation system. The present study is conducted to measure the effect of pedestrian crossing at non signalized mid-block location in mix traffic condition at city Indore Madhya Pradesh. The impact of pedestrian crossing on capacity and level of service of urban road, at designated or un-designated location at mid-block section is not present in the HCM nor in the IRC guidelines. Pedestrians crosses the road to save their time at undesignated section of the road which undesirably affects the movement of traffic. in the present study three mid-block location is selected in the city and traffic survey are done at base section i.e. where no pedestrian cross flow occurs and at friction section where pedestrian cross flow occurs. The speed-volume data are calculated from field survey data for finding out the capacity of base and friction section. Then the basic model equation was generated for different class of vehicle at all selected mid-block location, also the mathematical relationship was developed showing the drop in capacity due to pedestrian� cross flow. From the result it can be concluded that there is clear drop found in the mean speed of the vehicle, increase in the density and reduction in the traffic flow with the pedestrian crossing condition. Additionally, the pedestrian crossing facilities are recommended based on the traffic and flow analysis result outcome.