I got curious and looked around for more info, thinking that usually it takes at least a few months for traffic patterns to settle in like this. Nope. This overpass opened yesterday.
But wait, there are even more familiar issues! Housing? Yep, lots of people were displaced. Which was also ignored during planning, so the project landed late (22 years in the making) and way over budget.
Furthermore, it's not like the civil planning experts in Mumbai didn't know any better.
Transport expert Ashok Datar voiced skepticism about long-term benefits. “There is a saying that instead of trying to cover the world with leather, one should wear leather shoes. SCLR’s extension is an attempt to cover the world in leather. All that is being done is that a congestion point is being pushed further ahead of the road. How many extensions will you do while ignoring easier and cheaper solutions like having dedicated bus corridors on Mumbai’s roads? That is a far cheaper option than building such roads,” Datar said.
Key is to get cars off the road. That’s all it takes. Give people a cheaper more convenient safer option than a car, then people will use it. Not rocket science.
sarcasm
noun
sar·casm ˈsär-ˌka-zəm
Synonyms of sarcasm
1
: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2
a
: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b
: the use or language of sarcasm
Networked buses where you can see where any bus is at any time in amap and baidu, and in some cities you can even see what color the stoplight are live, but they can't take that last step and put it all together.
It's hard to see from the angle the photo was taken at, but if you look closely you'll notice the "lower" layer is actually a flyover on top of a third layer at street level
39 Comments
pc486@sh.itjust.works · 76 pts · 1y
I got curious and looked around for more info, thinking that usually it takes at least a few months for traffic patterns to settle in like this. Nope. This overpass opened yesterday.
But wait, there are even more familiar issues! Housing? Yep, lots of people were displaced. Which was also ignored during planning, so the project landed late (22 years in the making) and way over budget.
Furthermore, it's not like the civil planning experts in Mumbai didn't know any better.
Mumbai’s East–West road link realised after 2 decades with SCLR extension
JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip · 50 pts · 1y
I don't think I've heard that phrase before but I like it
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 364d
So instead of building more roads, we should use tires made of road?
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 364d
Vehicles bringing their own road ... their own track ... tracked vehicles if you will, why did nobody think of that!
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 363d
Goddammit, the indians will love it ! get me alstrom on the phone right now
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 363d
In the same spirit it's like making the road using rubber instead of using rubber for tire
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 361d
We do use rubber (from recycled tires!) to make roads.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Same! It's a fun idiom.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 363d
I bet you some people got really rich off this though, won't you think of the poor billionaires?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip · 52 pts · 1y
Just one more lane, bro, this one will fix the system for good, 100% guarantee, trust me bro, I'm
a lobbyista human.flango@lemmy.eco.br · 12 pts · 1y
4 is the charm
unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 364d
Just one more
lanelayer bro, trust me bro.wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 1y
Cool bridge tho
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
First class with sunlight, shadow and black water below for the proletariat
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 1y
All these liberals keep telling us that one more lane won’t work, so we stopped doing that. We just built more roads.
Beacon@fedia.io · 21 pts · 1y
Just one more entire extra highway bro, i promise this'll solve the problem
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Key is to get cars off the road. That’s all it takes. Give people a cheaper more convenient safer option than a car, then people will use it. Not rocket science.
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
What is sarcasm?
ebolapie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 364d
sarcasm
noun
sar·casm ˈsär-ˌka-zəm
Synonyms of sarcasm
1
: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2
a
: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b
: the use or language of sarcasm
Hope this helps <3
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 363d
I had no idea.
What useful information! You learn something new every day.
Thank you so so so very extremely much! You have no idea how much that helped. Woaw!!
❤️
ebolapie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 363d
🫡
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 363d
baby don't hurt me
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 361d
i agree, we need to build ramps that launch cars into the air
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 1y
obviously they should add a 4th layer, duh
and when that gets traffic jammed too, add a 5th! easy
what, public transit? uh, sweaty, do you not know how expensive and loud and ugly it would be???
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 363d
Ah, the Chongqing approach.
destructdisc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 363d
Except Chongqing has an excellent public transport network that's deeply integrated into the city
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 363d
Yes, it's quite good, but they still suffer from busses not having their own lanes/priority at lights and too many people driving cars.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 361d
it's such a weirdly prevalent issue, having good rail transport but then shitting their pants when it comes to having good buses as well
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 361d
Networked buses where you can see where any bus is at any time in amap and baidu, and in some cities you can even see what color the stoplight are live, but they can't take that last step and put it all together.
Aneb@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
If you just squeeze it in there! I think I see a spot in the park that can be bulldozed and paved into a new express lane! Progress yay!
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Just make them wider
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
No, more layers are the answer!
As a minimum two tunnels and three above ground levels more.
Niklast@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 364d
They should have build a parking Garage. That would bei so much easier for standing cars in multiple layers
TheBat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
perishthethought@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1y
Really solid. Thanks for this
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 363d
I see two layers
destructdisc@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 363d
It's hard to see from the angle the photo was taken at, but if you look closely you'll notice the "lower" layer is actually a flyover on top of a third layer at street level
drath@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 363d
Pretyy sure Chicago beat them to it
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 363d
Neat architecture. Would look better with a train on it.
Naich@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 1y
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