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    The document summarizes Bangalore's traffic problems and proposes solutions. It notes that widening roads has never solved congestion issues and simply leads to more vehicles occupying increased road space. The Metro is presented as not a comprehensive solution due to its limited initial coverage and the decades needed to achieve city-wide reach. Improving bus services is advocated as the best approach to shift people from private to public transport in a short time frame at much lower cost, while also reducing vehicles, pollution and road deaths.

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    The document summarizes Bangalore's traffic problems and proposes solutions. It notes that widening roads has never solved congestion issues and simply leads to more vehicles occupying increased road space. The Metro is presented as not a comprehensive solution due to its limited initial coverage and the decades needed to achieve city-wide reach. Improving bus services is advocated as the best approach to shift people from private to public transport in a short time frame at much lower cost, while also reducing vehicles, pollution and road deaths.

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    Bangalore's traffic mess

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

    198
    Year 1980 5 1990 1995 2000 2005 2007 2010
    % increase 74 96 44 65 58 36 54
    Traffic population will rise 90 % between 2005 and 2010.

    Road space needs to double every 5 years.


    Not logical.
    The result
    32 Lakh vehicles.1300 vehicles added daily.
    More money spent on roads than on water, power, education, medicare.

    Pollution : 3-5 times safe levels.

    Highest road deaths in India : 3 per day

    Garden city becoming desert city.


    Temperature rise of 3 degrees in past 40 years.
    Destruction of homes and businesses for road widening.
    Bangalore 2015 ?

    Road widening to keep pace with vehicle


    population has never worked anywhere
    worldwide.

    Traffic simply increases to occupy the


    increased road space. Congestion
    remains, commute time, pollution and
    accidents increase.

    This is a picture of congestion in 20-lane


    road in Los Angeles, USA.
    LA smog in background.

    Pic. courtesy Transfuture.net


    Our present strategy - dog chasing its
    own tail

    Road space will never catch up with vehicle population.


    The solutions

    Replace private transport with public transport.


    This is the only solution that will work in the long term.
    The Metro is not a solution
    Only people living and
    working within 2 km. of the
    Metro (the blue band in the
    picture) will use it.

    Only 5 % of Bangalore's
    population will be able to
    use the Metro.The rest will
    still have to depend on
    private transport.

    By the time the Metro is


    ready, Bangalore's vehicle
    population will be 50 Lakh.

    Average traffic speed will be


    6 kmph. (12 kmph. now)
    Accidents, pollution,
    temperature will be much
    higher.
    Metro densities
    Bangalore
    Bangalore's Metro must reach the density of
    metros in cities like London or Paris before
    the whole city can use it.

    London, Paris, New York, Madrid all took


    more than 100 years to achieve this density.

    London

    Paris
    Bangalore vs. London

    We think that the Metro is a solution for Bangalore because it works well in cities like
    London, Paris and New York.

    The comparison
    London's population is the same as Bangalore's.

    London : 400 km. of track length, 270 stations.


    Bangalore : 33 km. of track length, 35 stations - 3 years (?) from now.

    London : Carries 42 Lakh passengers a day.


    Bangalore : Will carry 5 Lakh passengers a day.

    London : Has 11 lines


    Bangalore : Will have 2 lines in 2011 (?)

    London : Started in 1863, took 116 years (till 1979) to evolve to this stage.
    Bangalore : Starts in 2011 (?).

    Passengers per day : Bangalore is estimated as 10 Lakh per day, but we can assume 5 Lakh going by Delhi, Kolkata
    metro's ratio of actual vs. planned traffic (50 %).
    The Metro is not a solution

    The whole city can use the Metro only when there is a station within 1 km. of
    wherever you are in the city.
    This will require a line length of 400 km.
    It will take 50 more years, at (an optimistic) 30 km. every 5 years.
    It will cost Rs. 100000 Cr. at Rs. 9000 Cr. for 35 km.

    It will be 60 to 100 years before the Metro has city-wide coverage.

    Most of us reading this will not be alive then,


    but will have to suffer the continuous construction activities.
    The bus is the solution

    During rush hour (people going to, from work)


    Each bike carries 1 person
    Each car carries 1 person
    Each bus carries 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 (because
    there is only 1 person in each car or
    bike)
    If we get each group of 75 people out
    of their private vehicles and into
    buses,

    This is what happens.


    Congestion Congestion ?

    Road space used by a person in a bus is:


    3 % of that in a car

    5 % of that on a 2-wheeler
    The logic already works in Bangalore
    Beautifully

    Proportionately

    32 Lakh people in private vehicles


    occupy this much road space

    38 Lakh people in 5000 buses occupy


    this much road space (0.5 %)

    BMTC has 5000 buses, carries 38 Lakh people every day.


    0.2 % of vehicle population carries 50 % of the human population.
    Bus-based systems are used worldwide

    Bus-based mass transport systems have been in existence for the past 30 years.

    They are preferred because of their low cost and low deployment time, in countries as
    economically diverse as Indonesia (comparable to India) and Canada (far wealthier than
    India).

    Some cities with bus-based systems

    India - Delhi, Ahmedabad, Indore, Pune


    Peru - Lima
    USA - Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, Charlotte, Cleveland, Eugene, Hartford,
    Honolulu, San Juan, Santa Clara, Alameda, San Pablo, Louisville, Montgomery, Pittsburgh
    Brazil - Curitiba, Sao Paulo, Goiania, Proto Allegre
    Ecuador - Quito
    Colombia - Bogota
    Indonesia – Jakarta
    UK - Bradford, Leeds
    Australia - Adelaide, Brisbane
    Canada - Ottawa, Vancouver
    China - Kunming, Fuzhou, Huangzhou, Wuhan, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenyang, Chengdu
    The economics
    Costs of various options before us

    Improved bus system : Rs. 3000 Cr.


    Expenditure on 10000 more buses of various classes + improved shelters, signage, etc.
    - Ordinary bus costs Rs. 12 Lakh, Suvarna (air suspension, no AC) : Rs. 16 Lakh
    - Marco Polo : Rs. 55 Lakh
    Time required : 1 year.

    Road widening for planned 400 km. : Rs. 4000 Cr.


    Usefulness : Zero
    Destruction of city : Total
    Cost of destruction of homes, businesses, culture, heritage :?

    Metro 33 km. to carry 5 % of Bangalore's population : Rs. 9000 Cr.


    6936 Cr. estimate in April 2005. BMRC announced 2000 Cr. escalation in Nov. 2008.

    Metro 350 km. for whole of Bangalore : Rs. 100,000 Cr.


    Assumes 20 % underground, same mix as now.
    Will take 50-60 years to build.
    London has 400 km. with 270 stations. Its size and population are same as Bangalore's.
    In sum
    Road widening is definitely not the solution
    It will worsen all our problems : Vehicle population, pollution, temperature rise,
    accidents, destruction of homes and businesses, destruction of grenery. 
    The Metro is too long term, and too expensive
    It will take 60 to 100 years to cover the whole of Bangalore
    It will cost Rs. 100000 Cr.

    The best solution


    The bus for long commutes + Cycling and walking for
    short commutes 
    Can be implemented in Rs. 3000 Cr.
    In 1-2 years.
    Without destroying Bangalore
    With a bus system we can achieve this

    Reduce
    No. of vehicles by 75 %
    Commute time by 30 %
    Pollution by 80 %
    Govt. expenditure on roads by 90 %

    Increase
    Spending on Water supply, Medicare, Education, Power
    Spending on rest of Karnataka
    Which lifestyle do we want?
    Private transport has given us this

    1
    Bus+ cycling+walking
    can give us this

    2
    If you want to work towards solving the problem,
    contact

    Vinay Sreenivasa
    vinay.sreenivasa@yahoo.com
    98805-95032

    OR

    Roshni Nuggehalli
    roshnugg@gmail.com

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