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    The document summarizes the issues with Bangalore's current traffic strategy of widening roads and promotes public transportation, specifically buses, as a better long-term solution. It notes that road widening is destroying the environment, increasing pollution, and is not sustainable as traffic continues to grow exponentially. Buses are highlighted as a solution because they can carry more people using less road space compared to private vehicles, and have been successful public transportation systems in many large cities worldwide. The summary encourages lifestyle changes like taking buses, cycling, and walking to reduce traffic and calling for increased investment in areas other than roads.

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    The document summarizes the issues with Bangalore's current traffic strategy of widening roads and promotes public transportation, specifically buses, as a better long-term solution. It notes that road widening is destroying the environment, increasing pollution, and is not sustainable as traffic continues to grow exponentially. Buses are highlighted as a solution because they can carry more people using less road space compared to private vehicles, and have been successful public transportation systems in many large cities worldwide. The summary encourages lifestyle changes like taking buses, cycling, and walking to reduce traffic and calling for increased investment in areas other than roads.

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    The document summarizes the issues with Bangalore's current traffic strategy of widening roads and promotes public transportation, specifically buses, as a better long-term solution. It notes that road widening is destroying the environment, increasing pollution, and is not sustainable as traffic continues to grow exponentially. Buses are highlighted as a solution because they can carry more people using less road space compared to private vehicles, and have been successful public transportation systems in many large cities worldwide. The summary encourages lifestyle changes like taking buses, cycling, and walking to reduce traffic and calling for increased investment in areas other than roads.

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    The document summarizes the issues with Bangalore's current traffic strategy of widening roads and promotes public transportation, specifically buses, as a better long-term solution. It notes that road widening is destroying the environment, increasing pollution, and is not sustainable as traffic continues to grow exponentially. Buses are highlighted as a solution because they can carry more people using less road space compared to private vehicles, and have been successful public transportation systems in many large cities worldwide. The summary encourages lifestyle changes like taking buses, cycling, and walking to reduce traffic and calling for increased investment in areas other than roads.

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    Bangalore's traffic mess

    The solution
    The current strategy
    Widen roads to keep pace with traffic

    Traffic population is doubling every 5 years.


    Road space needs to double every 5 years.

    Not logical.
    Bangalore 2015 ?

    Road widening to keep


    pace with vehicle
    population is stupid.

    Congestion in 20-lane
    road in LA, USA.
    LA smog in
    background.
    Result of present strategy
    The traffic
    The biggest cause of environmental
    destruction in Bangalore

    Trees cut, heritage buildings destroyed for


    road widening.
    Pollution 3-5 times acceptable limits in many
    places.

    Garden city ?
    Joke aa swamy ?
    The solution

    Replace private transport with public


    transport.

    The only solution that will work in the


    long term.
    Which public transport ?

    The Metro ?

    Or

    The bus ?
    The Metro is not a solution

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

    5 % of
    Bangalore.
    Metro : 100-year project
    London, Paris, New York
    took more than 100
    years to build city-wide
    coverage.
    Bangalore

    London

    Paris
    The Metro is not a solution
    None of us will be alive when it is finally
    built.

    Cost Rs. 100000 Cr. for city-wide


    coverage.

    Beautiful technology, but what we need is a


    solution, not a technology.
    The Bus is the solution
    During rush hour
    A car or bike has 1
    person
    A bus has 75 people

    There are 150 vehicles


    on this flyover,
    carrying 150 people.
    There are 75
    vehicles between
    each pair of red
    lines, carrying 75
    people.
    If we get each group of
    75 people out of their
    private vehicles and into
    a bus,

    This is what happens.


    Congestion Congestion ?

    Road space used by a person in a bus


    is:
    3 % of a person in a car
    5 % of a person in a 2-wheeler
    The logic already works
    Proportionately

    32 Lakh people in 32
    Lakh private vehicles
    occupy this much
    road space.

    38 Lakh people in
    5000 buses occupy
    this much road
    space (0.5 %)
    Buses win, worldwide

    More popular than Metros.

    Used in 100s of cities worldwide,

    in developed and developing countries


    In sum

    Road widening is stupid, harmful



    Metro is too long term, too costly 
    The best solution
    Bus for long commutes 
    Cycling, walking for short commutes
    Without 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
    Which lifestyle do we want ?
    1 Our cars and bikes have given us this
    Which lifestyle do we want ?
    2 Bus + cycling + walking can give us this
    Convert to this new religion.
    Today.

    CyBaNa
    Cycle + Bus + Nadiyodu

    Every week,
    1. Make at least one trip by bus.
    2. Cycle at least once to the neighbourhood store.
    Simplify ! Simplify ! Simplify !

    Most of the luxuries and many of the so-


    called comforts of life are not only not
    indispensable, but positive hindrances to
    the elevation of mankind.

    Henry David Thoreau


    For more information, or if you want
    to join a group that's working
    towards solving Bangalore's traffic
    problem
    Web site
    http://hasiruusiru.org/joomla/

    Contact
    Vinay Sreenivasa
    [email protected]
    OR
    Roshni Nuggehalli
    [email protected]

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