Bangalore Traffic Solution
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Bangalore's traffic mess
The solution
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The current strategyWiden roads to keep pace with traffic
Traffic population is doubling every 5 years.Road space needs to double every 5 years.
Not logical.
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Bangalore 2015 ?
Road widening to keep pace with vehicle population is stupid.
Congestion in 20-lane road in LA, USA.LA smog in background.
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Result of present strategy
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The trafficThe biggest cause of environmental
destruction in Bangalore
Trees cut, heritage buildings destroyed for road widening.Pollution 3-5 times acceptable limits in many places.
Garden city ?Joke aa swamy ?
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The solution
Replace private transport with public transport.
The only solution that will work in the long term.
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Which public transport ?
The Metro ?
Or
The bus ?
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The Metro is not a solution
Only people in this band will use the Metro in 2012.
5 % of Bangalore.
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Metro : 100-year project
Bangalore
London
Paris
London, Paris, New York took more than 100 years to build city-wide coverage.
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The Metro is not a solution
None of us will be alive when it is finally built.
Cost Rs. 100000 Cr. for city-wide coverage.
Beautiful technology, but what we need is a solution, not a technology.
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The Bus is the solutionDuring rush hourA car or bike has 1 personA bus has 75 people
There are 150 vehicles on this flyover,carrying 150 people.
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There are 75 vehicles between each pair of red lines, carrying 75 people.
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If we get each group of 75 people out of their private vehicles and into a bus,
This is what happens.
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Road space used by a person in a bus is:
3 % of a person in a car5 % of a person in a 2-wheeler
Congestion Congestion ?
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The logic already works
38 Lakh people in 5000 buses occupy this much road space (0.5 %)
Proportionately
32 Lakh people in 32 Lakh private vehicles occupy this much road space.
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Buses win, worldwide
More popular than Metros.
Used in 100s of cities worldwide,
in developed and developing countries
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In sum
Road widening is stupid, harmful
Metro is too long term, too costly
The best solutionBus for long commutesCycling, walking for short commutes
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Without destroying Bangalore
Reduce No. of vehicles by 75 % Commute time by 30 % Pollution by 80 % Spending on roads by 90 %
Increase spending onWater, Medicare, Education, Power
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Which lifestyle do we want ?Our cars and bikes have given us this1
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Which lifestyle do we want ?
2 Bus + cycling + walking can give us this
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Convert to this new religion. Today.
CyBaNaCycle + Bus + Nadiyodu
Every week,1. Make at least one trip by bus.2. Cycle at least once to the neighbourhood store.
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Simplify ! Simplify ! Simplify !
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
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Web sitehttp://hasiruusiru.org/joomla/
Contact Vinay Sreenivasa [email protected] OR Roshni Nuggehalli [email protected]
For more information, or if you want to join a group that's working
towards solving Bangalore's traffic problem