Can Mumbai Traffic Be Controlled With One Car Per Family Rule? Bombay HC Thinks So

Can Mumbai Traffic Be Controlled With One Car Per Family Rule? Bombay HC Thinks So

Bombay High Court might ask families in Maharashtra to stick to one car for their daily transport to curb the traffic congestion in the city. Famous for its slow moving traffic, the HC decided that the city has had enough. Acting on a PIL on the shortage of designated parking spaces in the city, it asked Maharashtra to reform its policies on the number of cars being parked and plying on Mumbai roads.
A number of media channels reported that “a division bench headed by Justice V M Kanade directed the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, the state Urban Development Ministry and the traffic police to sit together and come up with a ‘holistic policy’ on traffic issues.”

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In a report by PTI, the justice said that parking was becoming a huge concern when it came to congestion on roads and opening up inland water routes would have to be a more viable option. “Unauthorised parking due to lack of space is a very serious problem in Mumbai and is the cause of much traffic congestion... A large number of private vehicles enter the city every morning and leave in the evening, but they have no space for parking through the day. The government cannot sit on the problem anymore,” the court said. “There was a time about a decade ago when one could commute between Dadar and south Mumbai in just 20 minutes. Doing so is unimaginable now. It takes three hours to travel from Juhu to the airport,” it said. Promotion of ‘inland water transport” may be just what the city needed, said the judges. “While it will not solve all your problems, water transport can act as a complementary mode of transport,” the bench said, asking the state government to inform about its feasibility at the next hearing after four weeks,” it said.
The Deccan Chronicle

reported that, “the court also asked the government to review the security threats, if any, posed by cars parked under the city’s flyovers. The HC further said that there are 1,300 to 1,400 vehicles sold daily, and asked the government if it was planning to regulate these numbers.”

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