Bangalore's CTTP Due Next Week

The Comprehensive Traffic and Transportation Plan(CTTP) - which is the result of a 15-month city wide survey of traffic patterns in the city - is a crucial prerequisite to get a lot of projects under JNNURM approved. Even otherwise, it marks a beginning towards systematically addressing Bangalore's traffic problems. It is finally going to be released next week. And Bangalore is the first city in the country to come out with it. Go Bangalore!! To quote KUIDFC's Javed Akhtar,
"Comprehensive Traffic and Transportation Plan (CTTP) gives utmost importance to public transport as it's effective, efficient and economical". "CTTP suggests the mode of traffic for each area depending on the volume of traffic after a detailed survey. It also suggests road widening, corridors for flyovers, no-vehicle zones, mono and metro rails, heavy and light bus services for certain areas." "The only way out for Bangalore to solve the traffic problems is to improve to the public mode of transport system." "One mode of public transport won’t be enough for Bangalore. A single integrated system of many modes like metro rail, BMTC bus services like express, volvo, regular, limited stop buses and autorickshaws." This is great and I hope they make it a public document when KUIDC releases it next week. We have been discussing multimodes for a while now, see this for example. We have also been having this discussion about autos as feeder services. In a discussion on Metro one of points that came out was that using private vehicles to provide feeder service instead of autos, wastes two resources - vehicle as well as real estate. Source: Deccan Herald