CBWToday's traffic messCauses, Implications & Solutions

Substantiated with facts and illustrative images

by

Dasarathi G V, HasiruUsiru das@cadem.com

CBWThe 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.

CBWBangalore 2015 ?

Road widening to keep pace with vehicle population is stupid.

Congestion in 20-lane road in LA, USA.LA smog in background.

CBWA cartoon is worth a 1000 slides?!

CBWThe traffic

The biggest cause of environmental destruction in Bangalore

Trees cut, heritage buildings destroyed for road widening.

70 % reduction in green cover in last 40 years.

Pollution 3-5 times acceptable limits in many places.

Garden city ?Joke aa swamy ?

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http://www.ecocenter.org/dust/ToxicAtAnySpeed.pdf

Think you are safe in your car ?

PBDEs (fire retardants in plastics) cause neuro-developmentaldamage, thyroid hormone disruption and liver toxicity.

Phthalates (in fabric softeners) cause birth defects, impaired learning, liver toxicity, premature births, and early puberty.

Your car has large amounts of both these.

Levels of Carbon Monoxide, a highly poisonous gas, can be up to 10 times higher in the car than outside.

Levels of toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can be 4-5 times higher.

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Think again!

CBWThe present strategy results in …

Rise in asthma and other illnesses

Temperature rise and volatile climate conditions

due to emissions

Lose of greenery Every day, 3 die and 21 get injured in accidents.

CBWThe solution: Cycle+Bus+Walk

Replace private transport

with

public transport (buses, NOT auto rickshaws) and cycling.

* The only solution that will work in the long term.

CBWWhat about the Metro?

Only people in this band will use the Metro in 2012.

5 % of Bangalore.

Costs Rs. 100000 Cr. for city-wide coverage.

CBWMetro : 100-year project

Bangalore

London

Paris

London, Paris, New York took more than 100 years to build city-wide coverage.

CBWThe Bus is the solution

During 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.

CBWIf 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 ?

CBWThe 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.

CBWBuses win, worldwide

More popular than Metros.

Used in 100s of cities worldwide,

in developed and developing countries

CBWIn sum

Road widening is stupid, harmful

Metro is too long term, too costly

The best solutionBus for long commutesCycling, walking for short commutes

CBWWithout destroying Bangalore

Reduce

No. of vehicles by 75 % Commute time by 30 % Pollution by 80 % Spending on roads by 90 %

Increase spending on

Water, Medicare, Education, Power

CBWWhich lifestyle do we want ?

Our cars and bikes have given us this1

CBWWhich lifestyle do we want ?

2 Bus + cycling + walking can give us this

CBWConvert to this new religion.

Today.

Cycle + Bus + Walk !

Every week, allocate at least two days to CBW.

CBWWeb sitehttp://hasiruusiru.org/joomla/

Contact Vinay Sreenivasa vinay.sreenivasa@yahoo.com OR Roshni Nuggehalli roshnugg@gmail.com

For more information, or if you want to join a group that's working

towards solving Bangalore's traffic problem