TRANSPORT POLICIES * India - Experiment gridlocks Indian capital
A new transit scheme aimed at speeding up New Delhi's bus service has caused traffic chaos with thousands of motorists stuck for hours in gridlocks
New Delhi,India -AFP -Apr 23, 2008: -- ... Engineers designated special bus lanes along a 5.8-kilometre (3.5-mile) strip to get public transport moving quicker in the city, which has an estimated 18 million people... But a trial run that began Monday has already been described a flop in the city famed for chaotic traffic scenes with cows and bullock carts sharing the roads with scooters, cars and buses... Environmentalists are also up in arms over the project because thousands of mature trees have been felled to make way for the dedicated bus lanes that run through the middle of the streets... A number of casualties have been caused as pedestrians have struggled across the congested traffic to reach the dedicated bus lanes in the city centre... The din of growing protests prompted New Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit to seek explanations from project engineers, saying she was exasperated with the traffic snarls... Several schools changed timings as students were turning up late because of the experiment and ambulances were told to avoid the troubled rapid transit stretch... (Picture: Indian commuters are struck in a traffic jam at a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor in New Delhi)Labels: transport policies
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