[sustran] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dark side of Metro Rail !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sujit Patwardhan]

The Death and Life of Great Metro Cities

While many are mesmerised by the coming of the Metro Rail and its promises
of clean, safe, fast and green mode of Public Transport, we need to see
with open eyes the devastation being caused by the construction work of the
Metro and the callousness with which it is being bulldozed.

It's a pity that it has become necessary to take critical look a mode of
Public Transport in this manner but there is more to mobility than just
size and speed. A city's unique character, its natural and built heritage,
its public spaces and the plight of the most basic modes like walking and
cycling are equally important while planning and executing a public
transport project - particularly when it involves prohibitively high cost
that ultimately will fall on all the citizens.

Please read this article from our website  ... and do share your views.

The Death and Life of Great Metro Cities
http://www.parisar.org/resources-list/42-news/199-the-death-and-life-of-great-metro-cities

*With around 600 kms of Metro line projects under construction in 12 cities
and over 500 km projects under consideration, it is of utmost significance
and urgency to point out the highly unsustainable ways in which the
so-called sustainable Metro projects are being implemented. Why should
metro rail be established at the cost of other modes, especially the
non-motorized modes of cycling and walking, and then profess the idea of
multi-modal integration? Why are cities continually investing and
compromising towards one grand idea as the sole solution to traffic problem
rather than small constructive ideas weaved together? And can any
futuristic planning be so bereft of and violent to a city’s past and
present?*



Thank you,

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Sujit



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