From what I understand, this is supposed to be the most elite city in India. But it has bad urban planning.
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Should have built one more lane
Maybe a tunnel to go under the highway??
Get rid of those damned bike lanes in a totally different part of the city too!
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I may be misinformed, but I have the impression that India one of those countries where owning a car and driving is seen as a status symbol. Once you are able to afford a car, you don’t want to be seen using the train with the paupers.
So while the public transportation system is extensive in many Indian cities, people will still choose to commute by car and be stuck in endless traffic.
There’s a simple solution for this: Make public transport more expensive, until owning a monthly ticket and taking the bus is considered a status symbol again.
Or add a first class that is luxurious.
Actually, you are correct. And I absolutely despise driving, so I am pretty much a contrarian in India.
Not anymore. Chandigarh, a capital city of 2 states in India, has more cars registered than the total population (there are multiple reasons for that).
Almost every household in the national has at least one hatchback. Many people are also copying Americans, now, like buying small trucks, just for showing off.
Both things can be true at the same time
While cars may have come down in price (or wages gone up) to the point where the average person can reasonably afford one, people can still view a car as a status symbol because historically it was expensive to obtain. That combination would result in utterly congested roads.
Bangalore has more registered cars than people living there as well, IIRC. And it’s worse there because Chandigarh is Atleast a planned city ( the only planned one India built from scratch post Independence) but Bangalore mushroomed exponentially after the IT boom of 90s.
As for Gurgaon, it’s tragedy that only a small circular Rapid Metro runs there. Rest of Delhi has Atleast multiple lines.
Transit is packed too; it’s not that it isn’t also at maximum rider capacity much of the time. There’s just a lot of people.
Yes, more buses are needed
If only train technology had been invented.
I guess we could try adding another lane or two, that should just about do it
Indian cities pretty much all have pretty terrible urban planning. It stems from deep-rooted corruption, no long-term vision in the government, among many other factors.
I would imagine that first responders in that city have an extremely high turnover rate.
Gurgaon is the shittiest, most soulless city of India
Looks like the 401
It looks so pretty!
It also looks highly inefficient
this is supposed to be the most elite city in India.
Mumbai disliked that.
so is the work commute over in time for their next shift?
That looks awful, but to be fair I have been driving on Highway 401 at the end of a long weekend (I’m usually going in the opposite direction, thank God), and the slowdowns start about 100 km from Toronto.
In Japan, on holidays like Golden Week, you sometimes get an entire highway, 75 km or more, stopped.
Its like two beautiful streams of light flowing beside each other. I wonder how many folks passed away in that.
From what I understand, this is supposed to be the most elite city in India.
In developing countries, trees of high rise buildings and skyscrapers, and veins of crisscrossing motorways are the sign of modernity. While developed countries had a headstart and thus experienced how bad this kind of city design is, many poorer countries are still just catching up and they see what US and other Western countries look like on the media and tell themselves “we will be like that”.
The weird thing is the few lanes going right that are actually flowing normally. I guess the jam in that direction is all people trying to exit? The flowing sparse traffic looks out of place with all the jams around it.
