A nice set of slides discussing various obvious ones.
If we don't start thinking NOW, and wake up from the sexy sleek-car-on-a-highway dream and short term convenience-of-a-car-myth, we will choose a very scary future.
Increasing road space is surely not the way to go. A network of smaller sub-cities, fewer long commutes, buses to connect the networks, wayyy more lung space - those are the options to focus on. Even at the cost of a short term pain for car users. Come to think of it, does their pain have any scope for increase ? Its horrible enough as is.
If we don't start thinking NOW, and wake up from the sexy sleek-car-on-a-highway dream and short term convenience-of-a-car-myth, we will choose a very scary future.
Increasing road space is surely not the way to go. A network of smaller sub-cities, fewer long commutes, buses to connect the networks, wayyy more lung space - those are the options to focus on. Even at the cost of a short term pain for car users. Come to think of it, does their pain have any scope for increase ? Its horrible enough as is.
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2 comments:
Absolutely - buses are the simplest solution for the mess. We need policies to discourage people from driving as well when the bus transport improves. Car is pretty affordable for people these days and it takes a lot of discipline to commute by public transport when they have a car. But I am not very hopeful that our city authorities would get it any time. They will just widen roads and talk about metro and elevated highways.
Well, Indian cities have become consumerist. Everyone wants a car because it has become a status symbol, sad but true. There is a very visible reason why India does not need projects like Tata Nano etc but as long as we are consuming ... God help us ...
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