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Mumbai has very frequent local trains, right? And buses?
If you can get in one.
After pandemic many people have migrated to outer parts of the city. Since WFH stopped them travelling daily to work have increased the load on an heavily burdened public transport.
There are projects to move some of the people to other modes of transport. They have their own hurdles, ageing existing infrastructure, crowded and haphazardly constructed areas, bureaucracy slowing down construction.
Yeah and they are very packed to the gills as well, there's way too many people moving to this tiny city from all over the country and the goverment puts no regulations to regulate this migration, there's not enough housing for these people's and that's how slums develop, but these people become the local goon/politicians vote bank so they will support this, instead of actually improving the city
Is it just me seeing a parallel between Mumbai’s roads and some “traffic calming” recommended for here in the US?
- When I visited Mumbai what struck me is that somehow the chaos worked. I saw much less rage, violence, actual danger on the roads. Maybe it’s just my limited perspective as a brief visitor, but
- here in the us we focus on fast, efficient roads to accept ever higher speeds, but have huge problems with road rage, deadly accidents and violence. Common recommendations include narrower roads, less clear instructions, more mixing modes of transportation, more chaos, so drivers are effectively forced to slow down, have to think, have to figure out how to make it work
this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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