[sustran] Re: Roads on Roads concept - Bangalore builds its way out of Congestion????

[Sujit Patwardhan]

17 July 2008


Real tragedy is the ignorance of the electronic and print media that merely
repeats parrot-like any statement put out by the Govt. How many times do you
see the media question proponents of such non-viable projects about facts,
figures, cost and effectiveness of trying to build ones way out of
congestion?

With exploding number of personal auto vehicles in most urban areas,
building roads/flyovers/elevated highways to reduce congestion will not only
fail to solve the problem but make it worse as latent demand will encourage
even more vehicles to come on the roads.

This should be obvious to anyone who cares to read about the history of
building more and more roads and flyovers but decision makers are immune to
learning lessons from history and will continue to throw taxpayer's money
down the drain as long as the common citizen remains apathetic.

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Sujit Patwardhan
Parisar,
Pune, India






On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Sudhir <sudhir at cai-asia.org> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Please find the link for "Bangalore Roads over Roads concept".
>
> They think they can build their way out of congestion ...
>
>
> http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/69010/bangalore-builds-elevated-highways-to-end-jams.html
>
> Enjoy, this joke..... (28 % fall in problem ?????)
>
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