RE:Small price to pay for progress
by on Feb 22, 2008 03:19 AM Permalink
I'm sorry to say that you are giving an impression that you've not visited BD or Pak ever. If you have seen them yourself, than i must say that you are lying to all the readers in this forum. Those two countries are way much poor than us, but one thing for sure that they have freeways, and their roads are much wider with lane-systems just like US and other european countries. Now you must wonder that if India is growing, which is 100% true, is it really growing in a planned way, the way it should? Or, it is just that lots of private and public companies are growing and making huge money, which we are falsely interpreting as the whole contry's growth! Think about it. May be it is time to ask the respective state govts if they have any city/town planning, and if so what kind of expertise they have in that, and what kind of projection they base their infrastructure on? Is it based on a projected growth of the population for the next 20/50yrs or just the next 2/3yrs? One should make a trip to US and see how they build new cities. Initially, they lay the roads/surface streets, and have the major roads connected to the freeways which runs through the city and then connects to other cities. The whole city is then divided into blocks into which residential and commercial buildings come up based on zones. Are our planners in B'lore really thinking that way? From my travel in India, atleast the planners of Chandigarh, Gurgaon in Delhi, New Town(New Kolkata) in Kolkata, Vizag in A
