Who should we blame?
The Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system is anything but rapid. Cars crawl, pedestrians are confused, cyclists joust with motorcycles in their lane, and buses stop ahead of their bays. And no one quite knows whom to blame for this mess.
On the first working day since trials began on the 5.8-km BRT corridor: there was complete chaos. The short stretch between Moolchand and Ambedkar Nagar took more than an hour to cross, with the wait time at intersections like Archana and Chirag Dilli between 15 and 20 minutes.
Everyone concerned blamed malfunctioning traffic signals. But deeper issues were at work, and no one could hold out any promise of their resolution, early or delayed. "What was the need to impose this strange project on us? I was satisfied with the way things were, we never had jams like these before on this road," said an exasperated Dheeraj Gupta, who works for an MNC.
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On the first working day since trials began on the 5.8-km BRT corridor: there was complete chaos. The short stretch between Moolchand and Ambedkar Nagar took more than an hour to cross, with the wait time at intersections like Archana and Chirag Dilli between 15 and 20 minutes.
Everyone concerned blamed malfunctioning traffic signals. But deeper issues were at work, and no one could hold out any promise of their resolution, early or delayed. "What was the need to impose this strange project on us? I was satisfied with the way things were, we never had jams like these before on this road," said an exasperated Dheeraj Gupta, who works for an MNC.
To read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
Labels: blame, buses stop, Cars crawl, motorcycles, The Bus Rapid Transport, traffic signals
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