Reducing road crashes in India
On any given day, about 465 people die on roads in India. And about three times that number is injured daily. If you are a pedestrian or drive a two-wheeler…
Pedestrian Rights
You reach this conference in Delhi at the risk of your life
Crossing the road on foot to reach the venue of the international conference on public transport in Delhi was a near death experience last week. Every one knows this is…
Business Interests Deprive Citizens of Safety, Footpath and Road
We hear frequent reports of poor hawkers being hastily removed from footpaths and roads in front of residential areas with or without any complaint being made against them by residents…
Motorists must pay for parking , can’t have free lunch
There is increasing protest in the U.S. against the craze for car parking. More space is being allotted for parking of cars than for houses because of wrong policies. The…
Planned city Jaipur being ruined by ideas imposed from Delhi
Pune Metro railway has become a laughing stock. Few people are travelling and there are any number of jokes on the social media that it should be let out for…
The Tragedy of Footpaths: Impressions of a Pedestrian in Bangalore
Imagine you are driving your car and you notice garbage in the middle of the road, the heap is so big that you have to navigate around it, but that…
Must the motor car industry be so selfish, must the government neglect public transport ?
Mr R.C. Bhargava, the high profile chairman of Maruti Suzuki, and the likes of him owe an explanation to the public for the situation so visible in many places in…
The poor are blamed but the privileged are making Mumbai ugly
The poor are often unfairly blamed for straining Mumbai’s infrastructure, making it dirty.In fact, it can be argued that It is the rich who are in good measure responsible for…
Provide infrastructure to people, Not only to upper class
It is good that Aditya Thackeray, Maharashtra’s young environment minister, found time during his visit for the recent Glasgow climate summit to study the working of London Transport organization.…
Our Government Cares for General Motors, Ford, not our Pedestrians
Many parts of the world observed today, September 22, as the international car-free day, a day for freedom and safety for pedestrians. The United Nations has supported priority for pedestrians.…
Dinesh Mohan championed public transport, public protests
I was very sad to hear of the death this morning of Dinesh Mohan, noted expert on road safety, in St Stephen’s hospital in Delhi. It is a big loss…
Why reduce speed limit to 30 km/h? “Answer is blowin’ in the wind”
Due to the Covid lockdown in 2020, though the number of road traffic accidents declined yet deaths did not decline in the same proportion because people drive at higher…
Car Culture
A.R. Kardar was one of the biggest personalities of the Hindi film world. He was also very versatile as a writer, actor, producer, director and studio owner. His Kardar studio…
Pedestrians, Bus users are real heroes, says Traffic police commissioner
It would be good if our politicians and bureaucrats did a little introspection like Bangalore’s traffic police commissioner Ravikanthe Gowda. He said he had not travelled by a bus for…
Democratise Roads, Govt dare not call us Urban Naxals
Here is an opportunity to stress the demand for democratisation of road space. The government dare not accuse the activists of being urban Naxals because its own guidelines in the…
Centre’s directive on Pedestrianisation. Will our Babus listen ?
The central government’s ministry of housing and urban affairs has recommended holistic planning for pedestrian friendly market spaces in various cities and municipal areas in the country in consultation with…
The Good and Bad About Mumbai and Bangalore
After walking on Bangalore’s or Benguluru’s fashionable M.G. road earlier this week I casually hopped into a bus at Anil Kumble circle named after the former Indian cricket captain.…
Gated Communities, Cars And Black Money
One has to be really affluent or be in rich surroundings to walk with ease in India, it seems. I was in a very upmarket gated colony of bungalows in…
Need For ‘Compassion Of Buddha’ On The Road
The roads are regarded as the ‘Lifeline of a country’ India has one of the largest and densest road networks in the world. But a newspaper recently published an alarming…
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