raffic in the city of Mumbai is simply a mess. The condition of roads are bad and the no. of vehicles on the roads are increasing day by day. Well! the Mumbai high court feels sorry about it and will has directed the Maharashtrian government to limit the menace on the busy city’s roads.
The Mumbai HC has suggested a couple of steps to the Maha government which includes - limiting the no. of cars per family, encouraging the use of inland water transport, and increasing the circulation of the local trains.“These days every family has at least two cars…This should be restricted to just one car per family,” it said while hearing a PIL on the shortage of designated parking spaces in the city.
The second biggest issue on the Mumbai roads in the unauthorised parking spaces. People bring their cars to the city early during the day and leave in the evenings. They tend to park their cars of the roads and this takes up the spaces needed by other vehicles to move. This creates a major congestion.
The 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 join forces in order to constitute a “holistic policy” on traffic issues.
Talking about the inland water transport, though not a complete solution to the problem, can prove to be of little help.The water ways can be used as an alternative transport option. The HC has directed the Maha government to look for its feasibility and prepare and submit a report for the same to the court four weeks afterWednesday.
