The only way that Bengaluru can see a reduction in its traffic problems is the introduction of better regimes and public transport facilities, a joint police commissioner of the city, operation, MN Anucheth said.
The co -founder Zerodha WTF is a podcast that was released on Monday, Anucheth noted that the lack of public transport facilities in Bengalur compared to other metro cities, such as Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. Kamath asked him about solving the operating problems of Bengalur, which earned him a bad reputation.
“Historically, Bangalore has this problem with lack of public transport equipment. The only BMTC buses were the only facilities for public transport before the metro receipt, unlike other cities like Kolkata, you have trams, you have a metro in Delhi, you have local locals in Mumbai,” he said.
The example of the line line BaiyyAppanahali, which joined Whitefield, was cleaning, the IPS officer said the traffic on the route automatically decreased by 17 percent.
“Just to give an example, when the Baiyyappanahalli line joined the Whitefield line, automatically the peak of our operation automatically decreased by 17 percent. It just shows how just connecting to this matter or how important public transport is,” he said.
“Therefore, public transport is a long-term solution to Bengalur. Whether it is K-rush, suburban trains or it is a metro-leak.
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While the implementation of public transport infrastructure took some time, there will be a visible change when all things are determined, Anucheth noted.
“The implementation took some time, but when it comes, you will surely see the change.”
“For example, the outer circular road line opens for the metro, not only the metro will also be available, where the metro work takes place, which has been reduced.
The joint police commissioner also proposed some short -term solutions to combat the operation of Bengalur.
“In the short term, measures such as implementation of AI -based signals, technology implementation (will work),” he said.
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Why does Bengalur have transport problems?
Anucheth during the WTF is noted that after 2000 there was an explosive growth in the Bengalur population and the infrastructure did not grow appropriately.
“The thing with Bengalur was that after 2000 after the IT boom there was a significant explosive growth and the infrastructure did not undue the growth of vehicles or the human population,” he said.
The best police officer revealed that the city has the highest number of vehicles per thousand inhabitants.
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“Bengaluru has the highest number of vehicles per 1,000 approximately 872. We have 1.5 crore populations with 1.23 Crore populations. With such explosive growth, so composed the annual rate of vehicle growth is 8 %that we doubled in between 2013 and 2023,” he noted.
Bengaluru has one of the worst operations in the world, while the city comes in the third rank in the latest TomTom index. According to the index, it takes an average of 34 minutes and 10 seconds to cover a distance of 10 kilometers in the city.
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