India Builts More BRT Systems
2008-11-10 Source：english.chinabuses.com
The Indian government has decided that nine cities will be getting a BRT system to increase the capacity of the local public transport. The nine cities include Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, Indore, Bhopal, Pune, Jaipur, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam. The BRT systems are considered to be a crucial tool to provide smooth and affordable transport.
At present, India's Urban Development Ministry is stimulating the implementation of BRT projects in Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, while Indore and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh are in an earlier stage. The other cities where BRTS projects are coming up are Pune in Maharashtra, Jaipur in Rajasthan, and Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The total estimated cost of all the nine projects is Rs 3,300 crore. When BRTS was introduced in the national capital Delhi in April-May this year, there was chaos on the roads and long traffic jams due to technical problems.
But with some modifications the project is running smoothly now along a 5.6 km-stretch in the city. BRT projects in the nine Indian cities, apart from Delhi, are being financially helped by the federal government under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), an important government scheme aimed at integrated development of urban infrastructure. With transport services likely to pose a major challenge in India—where the urban population is officially being projected at 538 million by 2021, marked by 51 cities with million plus population—BRT is one of the systems the authorities are banking on. Good public transport can reverse the trend of opting for personal vehicles as means of transportation. Delhi alone has over 5.2 million vehicles. As urbanisation in India is taking place so fast, fine-tuned modes of urban public transportation have to be put in place; BRTS is one of them.
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