[sustran] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cautionary U.S. Transportation Tales for India's Growing Cities !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sujit Patwardhan]

*Cautionary U.S. Transportation Tales for India's Growing Cities*


*“It’s physically impossible to fit the automobile into a large dense
city,” Gorton says. “Cities that have tried to do that – and there are
many, many of them all over the world – have all ended up pretty unhappy at
the end of the day. And the cities that are happiest are the ones that have
taken steps to limit the automobile.”*

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*“They see what traffic does to their cities, they see how their city is
getting less livable every year. And as much as they personally want a car,
they don’t want their world to be this really congested traffic hell,” says
Gorton. “Among a lot of the policymakers and elected officials and senior
people in government, there really is this sense that they have to do
something else.”*
*Read the full article by clicking this link:- *
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/02/cautionary-us-transportation-tales-indias-growing-cities/1194/









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