Mumbai needs a Transport Authority.
http://epaper.dnaindia.com/story.aspx?id=59067&boxid=32511&ed_date=2014-1-30&ed_code=820009&ed_page=7
January 30,2014.
Your report, Bumpy road ahead for Best & the article by Darryl D'Monte (DNA,30/1) highlight the need for a Transport Authority for Mumbai to co-ordinate the bus, taxi, auto-riksha, goods transport and private behicles to use the roads network for the maximum benefit of the travelling public.Now the roads cater to the needs of the five percent of the people who travel by private vehicles. It is a revelation that only three out of 502 bus routes are profitable to the Best.Just now electric supply division of the BEST subsidies the bus transport. This burden needs to be passed on the private vehicles which commandeer most of space of the road network. Goods transport should be restricted during the day, all vehicles parked on the roads should be levied a fee, air-conditioned buses should be increased to wean away car users. Mumbai does not need sea-link or a coastal road but a fast-moving Mono-Railway and Metro Network. Mumbai can be saved from vehicular and noice polluition when most of the government and private sector offices and commercial centres are relocated to Navi Mumbai or other parts of MMRDA.
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