Easing traffic jams
We have long been assured of steps like underground tubes, overhead expressway, link roads, circular waterways around the city to solve the nagging traffic problem. Those steps are yet to see even the feasibility studies, only Almighty knows when they will take off! We do not see any serious efforts to ease the traffic jams. Only changes in office and school timings beget nothing. Have the govt ever thought of double deckers replacing the mini-buses, and buses? If the govt goes ahead with the plan to completely re-organize the transport system with double deckers, it will cut down the existing number of public transports (mini-bus, bus) to nearly half. Not only that, as a double decker takes longer time to get filled up so it decreases the frequencies of the vehicle plying. The city of London took it as one of the measures to ease traffic and it proved very effective. If the govt. plans it, it can be done within a very short time. The govt can think of giving soft loans to the existing transport companies to implement the project. We have huge liquidity in banks. We can not afford to go with this traffic congestion any longer.
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