Friday, July 2, 2010

Classic Indian approach to town planning

Recently there was a article in the Pune newspapers that a flyover is proposed at Dange Chowk, reasons being –

Ø Crowded square

Ø Too many illegal hawkers

Ø Daily wage laborers standing in the square to wait for thekedaars to show up and get picked up for a day’s work at some construction site

Ø Bus stop

Ø Lack of a traffic signal



So the approach is not remove encroachments, move the bus stop away from the square, install a traffic light…. The approach is .. lets build a 100 crore flyover, which will soon become 150 crores with cost over runs – and it will solve all the problems mentioned above!!

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