Thursday, February 26, 2009

VMD for Bangalore


VMD - Vehicle of Mass Destruction

Our own car lobby would destroy Bangalore. Wonder how? Well here are some facts for thought:

Ratan Tata's Tata Motors plans to introduce Tata Nano on Indian Roads by March 2009.

Bangalore has 4 million two-wheelers and 450,000 cars. According to the India Infrastructure Report 2006, a two wheeler occupies 10 times more road space than a bus, in terms of per capita road space utilisation. 

A car, not far from that, occupies about 7 times more road space than a Bus.

Ratan Tata plans to have atleast 10% of the two-wheeler users shift to Tata Nano.

For Bangalore, that would mean an additional 400,000 cars on top of the 450,000 that we already have.

We will have more nightmares than we can imagine!

37 comments:

  1. I would rather like to retire without a car in a place like Melukote. But is there a way to buy a house in melukote or build one?

    best,
    Krishna

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  2. Dear Sir,
    I am a trainee journalist at Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media Bangalore. I read your comment on the article
    No concrete jungle on Race Course land’ Dated- 19 June 2009
    http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?title=‘No%20concrete%20jungle%20on%20Race%20Course%20land’&artid=/8ADc8ZF9pg=&type=

    I would like to do a story on the issues related to this matter. Hence would like to talk to you.
    I shall be grateful if you could spare some time and give me your insight .
    --

    Thanks and Regards
    Charu Sharma
    Print and Web Journalism
    IIJNM, Bangalore
    charu.s@iijnm.org

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