By Prakash Srinivasan
Almost every major country today is battling the problem of migration to cities. The people from the smaller towns and villages move to the larger cities in search of a livelihood. India faces this problem in a larger measure owing to its population.
One of the symptoms of the problem of mass urbanization is the proliferation of personal vehicles like cars and two wheelers. To add fuel to fire, India does not have the infrastructure viz. good roads, parking space to support such a large volume of vehicles. Already this has reached its peak with traffic jams being commonplace in the peak hours and it is only a matter of time when even the non-peak hours will be full. Half of the roads are blocked by parked vehicles like cars and trucks so the space available for vehicular movement is very less. The problem is very acute because even the essential services like ambulances get delayed and many precious lives are lost.
