article on trafic jam in metropolitan cities - a big menace
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With the per capita income in India rising steadily, the country’s automobile industry has been doing well. As a result, more and more cars are spilling out onto the streets.
It sounds like a good thing but it is not as good as it sounds.
The streets of our cities were congested, to begin with. Now they have become doubly or trebly so. Road-development has not kept pace with car sales. Distances that took half-an-hour to cover by public transport ten years ago may now take two hours by the latest brand of cars.
In small towns and suburban streets, where separate pavements are often not built, pedestrians find it difficult to walk on the sandy sides of streets originally meant for them, but which are being increasingly encroached upon by vehicles of every description. Air pollution has drastically increased and with it the number of respiratory and allied diseases.
There are other objectionable things about traffic congestion. Critically ill or injured patients die on the way to hospital. Umpteen hours are lost every day as commuters get stranded en route to work. This has a detrimental effect on the economy.
Can anything be done to improve this state of affairs? No doubt ambitious programmes can be drawn up involving circular railways, flyovers, platform bridges and pedestrian underpasses, but these call for huge investments, and it may not be practicable or popular to construct them with taxpayers’ money. An alternative would be to seek assistance from appropriate funding agencies like the World Bank or the Asian Development Bank, but at best this could succeed only in selective cases.
