When I've just watched a video about cycling infrastructure in Oslo and Amsterdam before gearing up to fight for my life on Mumbai's roads
When I've just watched a video about cycling infrastructure in Oslo and Amsterdam before gearing up to fight for my life on Mumbai's roads
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30492376
Mumbai has very frequent local trains, right? And buses?
And next to no cycling infrastructure, which is why I have to go to war with cars and big-ass trucks on the roads every day
Let is know you're still alive !
What's your commute time/distance like?
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.
You have to get from the station to where you want to go. I've seen enough videos of Indian traffic to imagin that's no fun without a ton of steel around you
"Traffic laws are more guidelines than rules". Is basically the motto in any south Asian country. China also used to be bad but they are real heavy on the camera enforcement and will even ticket speeders by timing between cameras.
Traffic density doesn't cause any problem, it is slow traffic anyway, especially last-mile localities. Maybe there are no local trains on his route.
The main concern with traffic density would be polluted air, which you'd breathe more of when cycling.
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