Monday, November 20, 2017

Invest in public transport instead, say mobility experts

The Hindu: "“The city administration needs to first make a conscious choice to opt for public transport instead of private,” he said.

Srinivas Alavilli from Citizens for Bengaluru said the alarming levels of pollution in NCR should ring warning bells for Bengaluru. “The State government hasn’t got the message from the Steel Flyover Beda campaign right. The campaign was a clear expression of people’s opinion against all flyovers, which are essentially stop-gap temporary solutions, not against that particular steel flyover alone,” he said."

Stop finger pointing, boost public transport: EPCA tells Delhi govt

Hindustan Times: "Citing that lack of public transport will make such an important pollution control intervention meaningless, the letter also said: “It is imperative that your government take urgent measures and decisive steps to augment public transport. Only then emergency steps like odd-even are effective.”"