* India - LE CORBUSIER: He was for public transport, overbridges
Chandigarh,India -The Chandigarh Newsline, by Neelam Sharma -Nov 18,206: -- ‘NOVETTE AUTOBUS’, a shuttle bus service between identified points in the city, is the future of effective traffic management in Chandigarh, pointed out Chandigarh’s planner Le Corbusier way back in 1959, even as the UT Administration today is toying with the idea of point-to-point AC bus services, skybus and metro to cater to the increasing demands of the city residents... That a large number of residents will ultimately own a car and the basic human tendency to park the car right in his premises would lead to traffic chaos in the city, was something that the architect had feared almost five decades ago... Precisely why Le Corbusier wanted to discourage the residents to use personal vehicles and designed an urban city which, according to his plan, should have relied more on common transport for its success rather than individual vehicles for commuting...
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