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Mumbai has its first three-layer traffic jam. Feeling very proud /s (lemmy.world)
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Just one more link road, bro.

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[–] pc486@sh.itjust.works 76 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I got curious and looked around for more info, thinking that usually it takes at least a few months for traffic patterns to settle in like this. Nope. This overpass opened yesterday.

But wait, there are even more familiar issues! Housing? Yep, lots of people were displaced. Which was also ignored during planning, so the project landed late (22 years in the making) and way over budget.

Furthermore, it's not like the civil planning experts in Mumbai didn't know any better.

Transport expert Ashok Datar voiced skepticism about long-term benefits. “There is a saying that instead of trying to cover the world with leather, one should wear leather shoes. SCLR’s extension is an attempt to cover the world in leather. All that is being done is that a congestion point is being pushed further ahead of the road. How many extensions will you do while ignoring easier and cheaper solutions like having dedicated bus corridors on Mumbai’s roads? That is a far cheaper option than building such roads,” Datar said.

Mumbai’s East–West road link realised after 2 decades with SCLR extension

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

instead of trying to cover the world with leather, one should wear leather shoes

I don't think I've heard that phrase before but I like it

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So instead of building more roads, we should use tires made of road?

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

In the same spirit it's like making the road using rubber instead of using rubber for tire

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Vehicles bringing their own road ... their own track ... tracked vehicles if you will, why did nobody think of that!

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 5 hours ago

Goddammit, the indians will love it ! get me alstrom on the phone right now

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Same! It's a fun idiom.