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Delhis Transport Policy Is Ad Hoc, Sadly Inadequate

Delhi has been in the news for a long time over its new (and enormously expensive; the first phase, just getting over has cost Rs 110 billion) metro rail commuter system. However, city transport planning is still marked by huge ad hocism. The city bus system is affordable, but that’s about it—it is sadly inadequate, tiring to use and unreliable, even as the registration of cars continues to multiply. Delhi still has more vehicles registered than the other three metros together.

As for the other components of multi-modal transport, they aren’t there. Four years after it was first promised, the city government hasn’t moved on a proposal for a multi-modal transport authority, although it was supposed to be something the chief minister favours. Three years before, the government had spoken of electric trolley buses, high capacity buses (HCBs) and a light rail transit (LRT) system, besides a mono-rail. Till date, with the exception of five HCBs, none of the other projects has gone anywhere. Electric trolley buses were to be introduced on two corridors by the end of 2003. Today, the project is as good as shelved. The LRT system met the same fate. Despite numerous feasibility studies, the project has not seen the light of day.

As for the mono-rail, the idea was to have one for the walled city. But it has failed to enthuse the Union urban ministry, which would have to arrange the finances. Three corridors had been tentatively identified, but lack the backing of a proper study.

The Planning Commission has also scolded the government for persisting with the idea of a road-rail transit system, which aims to link Delhi with UP and Haryana. The Commission says this would end in a duplication of the metro rail system.

The plan to introduce HCBs in the city has met with limited success, though experts of the Transport Research and Injury Prevention Programme of IIT, Delhi, say the decision to run six of these buses on a city bus route without a dedicated corridor isn’t what what was envisaged. Seven corridors have been proposed for the bus system by the IIT experts, but till now not even a consultant has been hired for the corridor construction.

Source : http://www.financialexpress.com/

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