The "Beauties" * India - Shall RuleThe Roads...
Welcome to Pune Metropolitan Transport (PMT) SystemPune,India -Mutiny.in, by gentledude -7 June 2007: -- 849 buses,serving a population of 44,85,000 and covering an area of 700 sq.km. Around 144 of them are more than 15 years old... Pune is reportedly having the highest number of two wheelers in India and the number is growing by the day,causing traffic snarls everywhere... Perhaps no other Indian city needs an efficient public transport system at this moment than Pune... But there is some good news too... The city planners have finally woken up to the ground reality of the situation and the old buses are being replaced with new ones and to ease the congestion,they’re experimenting with Bus Rapid Transit System, which has its own problems but may prove to be beneficial in the long run... Hope somebody puts an end to this problem and save Punekars from the obnoxious fumes from the thousands of two wheelers plying on the roads...
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posted by Unknown @ 7:45 PM
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I am writing with regards BRT projects as implemented in two Indian cities. Despite being a campaigner for improving Pune's bus public transport system, I have not managed to share the optimism over BRT projects in Pune (and perhaps Delhi) for various reasons. Unfortunately a number of factors are being over looked in the ongoing debates. Concepts such as cost effectiveness and opportunity costs remain forgotten. Equally to run after a dream called BRT without having basic pre-requisites in place is nothing but foolish. For more details on my views with 15 embedded links please read my article by clicking here -http://better.pune.googlepages.com/WhyBRTinIndiadoesnotexciteme.htm
In Pune and Delhi the world now have an example of how not to implement a BRT.
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