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But forcing someone to replace a working vehicle? What is the environmental impact of manufacturing a new car and disposing of the old one? At what point does that actually outweigh the impact of emissions from a slightly older car, if ever?
If the government's intent is to cut local emissions this could make sense.
He isn't being forced to replace the car. He could walk. It's 1km ffs
He also posted a photo of the road. It's 2 lanes of chaotic traffic in each direction, no sidewalk. You can't walk there, you'll get hit by something sooner or later. It supposedly also gets up to 44C (of course on an asphalt road the air temp might be higher than that). I choose to believe that because apparently the temperature record in New Delhi is over 50C.
There must be a way to walk. Source: only a minority of Indians have cars.
Yes, you can also see mopeds and such in the photo. 2 stroke mopeds of course are even worse for emissions than cars. Modern 4 stroke ones not so much, but if you're limited to 50cc, they're ridiculously underpowered, not particularly long lasting, etc. Not sure what the regulations on this area in India.
And sure, you can definitely walk. You can walk on the side of a highway too, nobody's stopping you. Why are people complaining about car centric city design in the US? You CAN walk. It's not safe to in many places, but you CAN.
For real though, some people don't want to walk on what is essentially a highway. It's unsafe. There should be better options for pedestrians.
So of we annoy the wealthy class, they will use their considerable influence and have walkways built thus benefitting everyone?
Sounds good to me