CBWToday's traffic messCauses, Implications & Solutions
Substantiated with facts and illustrative images
by
Dasarathi G V, HasiruUsiru [email protected]
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.
CO, ppm
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In car On road
In car
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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 [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
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