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I love Chennai – given all its plusses and minuses. It really irks me when the minuses outweigh the plusses. People from all walks of life will love Chennai only if the plusses outweigh the minuses. So what are the minuses? This is not a ranking and issues are not in any particular order. I’ll list down the issues and take up one issue per post on a detailed basis
Major Issues -
1.Transportation and Traffic
2.Waterways
3.Urban Planning
4.Green cover
5. Hygiene and Civic sense
Issue for the day : Transportation & Traffic -
Everyone complains about traffic and increase in private transportation, it is a vicious cycle. But if at all there was a efficient public tranport system, more than 80% of our traffic related problems would have been solved. Building flyovers is not the solution. Infact we have most of the flyovers on the wrong roads/places or wrong length. All of our solutions given by the politicans is only short termed. Probably only till thier tenure lasts. We need people who can think and implement things from a 40-50yrs perspective. Look at the Gemini flyover constructed way back, or look at the width of Mount Road (Anna Salai) built by Britishers and compare it with any of the bridges or road we have built in recent times. I’m again saying if at all we have a proper public transportation model, we can still manage with the roads we have. Many efforts have been taken to have a multi modal tranport authority but it effectively not there even on paper. MRTS was started and still not completed, Metro is to be started, Beach expressway has been proposed, Adyar River expressway has been proposed, Port expressway launched and the list goes on and on.
Take MRTS for example, why has been there a delay for so long? The Govt is taking so many steps to project IT Highway, why is there no proposal to take the MRTS till there? It is common sense that the train tracks be extended till there, or is ITEL preveting it because it stands to lose toll revenue? In Mumbai, train is the main mode of transport and buses are used to serve stations, why can’t we have it here?
Another classic example is Autos, just google Chennai and Auto and check. Everyone on earth know that Auto in Chennai are the worst of the lost, fleecing customers day in day out right in front of the eyes of law but still no action is taken against them. After all auto is another mode of public transport. If the system in B’lore or Mumbai is adopted, people will definetly prefer to choose autos and buses and trains instead of cars and bikes.
All I would say to politicians is set right the public transportation model and save crores of rupees. It is not very tough to do it, all it takes is a litle courage and long term vision.
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