!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dark side of Metro Rail !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sujit Patwardhan]

The Death and Life of Great Metro Cities

While many are mesmerised by the coming of the Metro Rail and its promises of clean, safe, fast and green mode of Public Transport, we need to see with open eyes the devastation being caused by the construction work of the Metro and the callousness with which it is being bulldozed. 

It's a pity that it has become necessary to take critical look a mode of Public Transport in this manner but there is more to mobility than just size and speed. A city's unique character, its natural and built heritage, its public spaces and the plight of the most basic modes like walking and cycling are equally important while planning and executing a public transport project - particularly when it involves prohibitively high cost that ultimately will fall on all the citizens.

Please read this article from our website  ... and do share your views.

The Death and Life of Great Metro Cities

http://www.parisar.org/resources-list/42-news/199-the-death-and-life-of-great-metro-cities

With around 600 kms of Metro line projects under construction in 12 cities and over 500 km projects under consideration, it is of utmost significance and urgency to point out the highly unsustainable ways in which the so-called sustainable Metro projects are being implemented. Why should metro rail be established at the cost of other modes, especially the non-motorized modes of cycling and walking, and then profess the idea of multi-modal integration? Why are cities continually investing and compromising towards one grand idea as the sole solution to traffic problem rather than small constructive ideas weaved together? And can any futuristic planning be so bereft of and violent to a city’s past and present?

Thank you,

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Sujit

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