Is Metro rail the only option for the growing vehicle population in the city?

I Support Mr. Ramesh Kandadai’s view.

Also, the following can be considered :

1. The Government can encourage developments or develop satellite towns near larger Tire I and II cities. These cities must have connectivity via suburban trains and good road network. 

2. In these towns too, the government can give tax sops to developers who develop complexes with both large office space and a propionate amount of residential spaces (Walk to Work).

3. Build a dedicated bus corridor network.

4. Go all out with sops in order to encourage people to take up cycling. Encourage people to use cycle for local use (for going 2 to 5 Kms from home). Design and Build dedicated cycle corridors on roads. Cycle traffic is better manageable than vehicle traffic.

5. Have stringent methods to issue road license. This would prevent “Road Rouges” from acquiring license and flaunting it on road by very bad driving.

6. Have lots of mini busses. These can drop and pick up persons to and from the stations.

7. Make it mandatory for schools to take in students who are residing within a radius of say 3 to 4 kms only.

These and many more can be implemented for better traffic and transportation in the future.

I fully agree with Mr. Ramesh's view and alternatives suggested by him. I would like to suppliment with following points:

1. In addition to moving offices to subrubs, the govt. should encourage companies to move to smaller cities by giving them incentives for opening offices there;

2. It could be made mandatory for the companies to provide accommodation to their staff within few kilometers of the office/factory;

3. Mixed multistory office cum residential buildings may be developed; where office staffs could have accommodations;

4. Like car pools, non-stop mini bus service should be started between major destinations. This will encourage even those people to use public transport who otherwise hesitate to do so, because of higher travel time compared to personal transport. Delhites, must be aware that PHAT-PHAT SEVA from Jama Masjid to various destinations in Delhi is quite poular in the masses;

5. Metro is also an expesnive service for aam aadmi (Max fare for bus service is  Rs. 15 half of that for metro. Earning of an unskilled construction worker, lets say on metro project itself, just Rs. 150 per day).

6. Enhancing suburban railway service could also be a big and cost incetive help for decongesting our roads.

I think to regulate the number of vehicles on road there could be one solution.

On odd days allow odd numbered vehicle and on even dates allow even numbered vehicles.

I support Mr Ramesh Kandadai's argument. It is absolutely correct and metro rail also a must. Every work place in not nearer to metro station, it may be few hundred metres or few km away. In this situation alternate facility required. That may be bus, car pool etc....

Agree with Ramesh,

Metro should not be overused. In any case placing all eggs in same basket can never be the best idea.

Railways and Trams must as well pitch in in suburban transport it may require separate lines yet are less expensive in comparison to Metro. It is only where land availability has diminished that we should look to Metro and Sky-rail-bus. 

Traffic regulation is the only option.Design the traffic scheme leaving space for pedestrians,scooters,cars,and cycles.Metros in some way touch the nerve but not the curves.

Thousands of new vehicles jumping to road daily....A law should be formed to control the new production of any vechicles in our country. unless don't dream jam free roads......

To a certain extent yes metro can be one of the solutions to the problem of traffic congestion and increase in no. of vehicles but with ever increasing population even the no. of commuters through metro has increased manifold leading to overcrowding in metro. The improvement in infrastructure, roads can resolve the problem to certain extent besides increasing the frequency of metro and transportation facility.

NO Metro is not the only solution for the growing traffic congestion. Following steps need to be taken on priority before the things go out of hand.

• Widening of existing road and infrastructure.
• The ring road was supposed to be without red-lights but not effective as yet. The traffic has to move very fast on this ring road.
• Enhance the efficiency of the traffic police for them to be effective and be able to enforce the following of traffic rules by commuters.
• Alternate routing for the heavy traffic which has to cross through Delhi. Such traffic should not enter Delhi at all.
• Last but not the least enhance the frequency of the Metro. It would still be the major decongester of the traffic chaos in delhi.

Using of existing means of Mass Transit systems, improving upon existing roads and bridges would be more helpful

CAR POOL, can also be helpful.

No, metro rail may not be the only option for growing vehicle population.Metro Rail may not be able to serve everybody as they don't connect the entire city under one roof.To reduce heavy traffic we can opt for some alternatives like:

Junction improvements,Grade separation, using bridges (or, less often, tunnels) freeing movements from having to stop for other crossing movements,Ramp signalling, 'drip-feeding' merging traffic via traffic signals onto a congested motorway-type roadway,Reducing junctions etc.