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Originally Posted by Gangsta  Level 1 Thinking? do you think that place can be decongested by any means? Even proper traffic lights will be a pain for everything. How abt the smooth road with no traffic lights becomes full of lights and how abt 3 lane road becomes 2 lane road? Do you think road with heavy traffic becomes small and you expect the traffic to be smooth on small roads? |
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Originally Posted by Gangsta In Cricket we have few bookish shots for batting, But you can't play with such bookish shots. You need to be a practical not a bookish one. |
There's no brownie points for saying what everyone knows anyways. The problems you mention are real and everyone knows. But that IS and remains level 1 because it doesnt attempt any creative solution to the problem. Like politicians suggesting short haul flights land at HAL - to hell with designing a holistic functioning airport system.
And the problem with BRT is just this. Presently it has little incentive for the modal shift to occur. My proposed solution is that they build it all over delhi, double the number of buses in delhi (what do I pay road tax and so much tax for) - and ONLY THEN operationalize it. I will happily trade in even my bike's 40 min commute for a comfortable 70-80 minute commute in public buses.
Delhiites havent still responded back with carpools. I am truly ashamed to see that. I see that stretch daily - STILL same nonsense - one person in car, or one sahab with driver. ALL BRT has done is preponed traffic troubles that we would've faced 3-4 years later,today. The sooner we realize that urban infrastructure is constrained - the better. And sheila madam isnt too wrong - with current cost of land, acquiring further lanes is impractical. These are just the teething pains of shifting people into mass transit. Metro was better since it ADDED extra capacity on top of existing roads and political/god knows what will made it go to mehrauli instead of ambedkar nagar. If not BRT, and people moving to BRT, I see little hope 3-4 years down the line. Ofc yes, they need proper safeguarding for pedestrians and foot over bridges etc - the current design is lacking in many ways. heck, they closed a much needed free left at ambedkar nagar itself. fumb people.
Problem is that we all want to buy bigger cars and magically expect the measly road tax to fund more lanes. When we are not willing to give up a bigger share of road resources and look at more optimal (for the greater good) solutions, then such messes will occur. That to my mind is the thought about level 2 solutions. But then, nothing personal against you - most of us would choose something similar.
Please take a good trip into downtown London. People pay 8 pounds just to enter (a day) into roads which can get congested and sometimes do.