[sustran] Experts for more roads in city (See Lee Schipper comments on this)

[Eric Britton]

Experts for more roads in city


 


 
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Pune, March 17: EMBARQ, a World Research Initiative Centre for Transport and
Environment, stressed on the need for the city to increase the percentage of
land use for transport from 4 per cent to 20-22 per cent to stem the traffic
problems. Presenting the findings before Municipal Commissioner Nitin Kareer
on Friday before, EMBARQ's director of research, Lee Schipper suggested that
more roads are necessary for tackling the traffic problems. 

Funded by Swedish Institute of Development Authority, EMBARQ has been
studying traffic woes of Pune, Xian in China and Hanoi in Vietnam under the
project Partnership for Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia (PSUTA) to
suggest ways of coping up with increasing traffic. 


 


 

Schipper said that compared to the other two cities, Pune's traffic
comprises two-wheelers, autorickshaws, buses all plying on narrow roads in
downtown parts. ''Pune has less vehicle speed (12 km/hr) in comparison wih
the two cities and the traffic fatality is minimum here.'' 

He said that Nalstop and Swargate chowks have higher traffic density
compared to Bhosari - an industrial area. EMBARQ study revealed that around
60 percent, is directly exposed to air pollution. 

Advocating Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in the city, Schipper blamed the
city planners for failing to undertake any impact study to calculate the
improvements done after implementations of projects. 

Experts from Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT) underlined fifty
indicators for ascertaining a sustainable transport system and recommended
monitoring the indicators by conducting frequent trend analysis to ensure
transport in the city. 

 

[eb: We'd like to see (a) that list and (b) how Pune fared in it. Can anyway
get this to the group????]

 

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