Article on improving the chaotic traffic conditions in bangalore in 100 or 120 words
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I’ll answer the question by asking the below four questions:
Why is traffic a problem ?
The obvious direct impact is the lost time. If you loose 25 mins (each side) in traffic daily, that’s 10% of your working hours (or 10% of your CTC depending upon the way you look at it)!
Traffic accentuates pollution and heat in the city. You’re literally asked to stay in a hot air full of CO2, dust and soot.
Long recurring periods of loud noises and polluted air makes people anxious, depressed and frustrated.
Does if affect everyone equally ?
If you think in terms of cost of lost productivity, then it affects the rich (the people with highest salary) most.
If you think in terms of health then it affects the poor (like labourers) most who don’t live 24x7 in clean and Air-conditioned environment.
If you think in terms of environment, then it affects all as the air we all breathe gets worse.
Is traffic caused equally by everyone ?
Cars and cabs are the biggest contributors. Their carrying capacity (no. of persons carries per square meter of area occupied) is the least. In Delhi (before metro), 2% of vehicles (bus) carried 80% of the population & 80% of vehicles (cars) carried 2% of the population. Something similar is applicable in Bangalore as well.
Unsolicited and illegally parked vehicles are the second big reason. They block the whole traffic as they’re immobile. They reduce the road capacity and thus slowing the traffic movement.
People on foot, bicycles, buses and to an extent motor bikes are the least contributors. They carry a lot of people occupying a small space on the road.
What could be the solution ?
Immediate: We have to discourage people from using private vehicles. And the step has to be drastic and sudden, much like demonetization. We can either ban cars and hence control the biggest culprit or we can implement odd-even so that everyone is affected equally. This solution is more like a . Such a change will affect people’s lives and their way of commute. They will be forced to find newer ways to commute and over time, they will get accustomed to the new way and forget that they used to travel to office via cars.
Medium term:
We need to decongest the most congested junctions (like Marathalli). This is where most commuters loose most of their time. Building flyovers and under bridge could lighten the issue.
Another solution is to construct a ring road in the periphery of the city. Over years, the existing outer ring road has transformed into city and can no longer be called “outer”. A ring road provides easy transit between two distant points (like Whitefield and Electronic city) and eliminates the need to traverse the whole interior of the city.
Long term: Bangalore has a uni-modal public transport system, meaning there is only one mode: buses, unlike Delhi which is multi-modal since the people have metro, bus and local trains to choose from. Metro and local train usage is very small in Bangalore. So the solution is to develop multiple modes of transport in the city. A metro is great for carrying thousands of people on a busy stretch (like on outer ting road) while a bus is best suited for specific point to point connectivity (like Silk board to IIM Bangalore campus).
Why is traffic a problem ?
The obvious direct impact is the lost time. If you loose 25 mins (each side) in traffic daily, that’s 10% of your working hours (or 10% of your CTC depending upon the way you look at it)!
Traffic accentuates pollution and heat in the city. You’re literally asked to stay in a hot air full of CO2, dust and soot.
Long recurring periods of loud noises and polluted air makes people anxious, depressed and frustrated.
Does if affect everyone equally ?
If you think in terms of cost of lost productivity, then it affects the rich (the people with highest salary) most.
If you think in terms of health then it affects the poor (like labourers) most who don’t live 24x7 in clean and Air-conditioned environment.
If you think in terms of environment, then it affects all as the air we all breathe gets worse.
Is traffic caused equally by everyone ?
Cars and cabs are the biggest contributors. Their carrying capacity (no. of persons carries per square meter of area occupied) is the least. In Delhi (before metro), 2% of vehicles (bus) carried 80% of the population & 80% of vehicles (cars) carried 2% of the population. Something similar is applicable in Bangalore as well.
Unsolicited and illegally parked vehicles are the second big reason. They block the whole traffic as they’re immobile. They reduce the road capacity and thus slowing the traffic movement.
People on foot, bicycles, buses and to an extent motor bikes are the least contributors. They carry a lot of people occupying a small space on the road.
What could be the solution ?
Immediate: We have to discourage people from using private vehicles. And the step has to be drastic and sudden, much like demonetization. We can either ban cars and hence control the biggest culprit or we can implement odd-even so that everyone is affected equally. This solution is more like a . Such a change will affect people’s lives and their way of commute. They will be forced to find newer ways to commute and over time, they will get accustomed to the new way and forget that they used to travel to office via cars.
Medium term:
We need to decongest the most congested junctions (like Marathalli). This is where most commuters loose most of their time. Building flyovers and under bridge could lighten the issue.
Another solution is to construct a ring road in the periphery of the city. Over years, the existing outer ring road has transformed into city and can no longer be called “outer”. A ring road provides easy transit between two distant points (like Whitefield and Electronic city) and eliminates the need to traverse the whole interior of the city.
Long term: Bangalore has a uni-modal public transport system, meaning there is only one mode: buses, unlike Delhi which is multi-modal since the people have metro, bus and local trains to choose from. Metro and local train usage is very small in Bangalore. So the solution is to develop multiple modes of transport in the city. A metro is great for carrying thousands of people on a busy stretch (like on outer ting road) while a bus is best suited for specific point to point connectivity (like Silk board to IIM Bangalore campus).
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