Indian cities were originally designed as compact entities to reduce travel trip length. But with rapid urbanization and motorization, our sprawling cities are becoming victims of killer pollution, congestion, and a crippling oil guzzling, car dependent infrastructure that endangers our quality of life.
Says his proposal of bus day and cycle scheme can make a difference only if the rich and powerful get on to public transport
Buses provide the bulk of public transport services in many Indian cities. Its share in daily travel in bigger cities can be as high as 40-60 per cent. Cities are looking at bus transport reforms to reduce auto mobile dependence, congestion, and pollution. Cities like Delhi are setting such high targets as 80 per cent public transport share by 2020, but such a goal can be met only if bus transport is scaled up.
Delhi has yet to wake up the mobility crisis. Increased use of cars is reducing people carrying capacity of roads. Total walk and cycle trips are more than double the share of car trips.
Will set up a premier Environmental Training Institute near Delhi
Anumita Roychowdhury, Right To Clean Air Campaign
-- Anumita Roychowdhury, Right To Clean Air Campaign
Bus, walk and cycle power India’s mobility. Yet rapid motorization is snuffing life out of cities. Can Delhi and other cities reinvent the dream of mobility to get out of this urban nightmare? This needs inventive thinking, action and confidence to break out of the arrogance of old ideas!
CSE releases findings on parking in Sarojini Nagar and the lessons from it Says without a clear strategy, expensive parking structures can neither reduce parking chaos nor parking demand
CSE’s clean air and urban mobility team organized a workshop ‘Our Right of Way: Walk and Cycle’ in New Delhi on March 22, 2012.
How can any organization first lay bare a problem and then lambast and contradict the solution needed to solve the problem? An oxymoron!