Here is a simple reason, choking road – the population of vehicles in the state has doubled in the last 10 years and recently, crossing the 3 crore sign.
Almost a fifth of this – 60 lakh – is on Jalan Chennai striving for space, and the resulting congestion is what makes you go home for work longer.
The explosion of the car population has worsened snar traffic, reducing the average vehicle speed of 33km / h to 20 km / h in the city road.
The city road has violated the saturation point, said Professor Krishna Raj from the Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru.
The road has surpassed the carrying capacity and enters further than new vehicles will lead to gridlocks, which will have a negative impact on the economy and the environment, he said.
“In a recent study, we found that commuters lose 5% of their income because of the cost of additional fuel and traffic delays.
In addition, there are loss of productivity and health costs,” he explained.
The study of his team about people who travel on the streets in India for more than one hour a day show that 45% suffer from shortness of breath or giddiness regularly and many psychological problems develop too.
G Sundarrajan Poovulagin Nanbargal, an environmental organization, said carbon emissions from so many vehicles will worsen climate change.
“To accommodate a new vehicle, we need to build more roads and bridges, which we need to destroy more natural resources.
This is a devil circle”.
The length of Tamil Nadu road has increased by around 60,000 km in the last decade and half a dozen new bridges have appeared in the city, but this does not help relieve traffic.
Commenting on the explosion of the vehicle population, an urban planning expert with the state government said the affordability of people has risen.
“A salary increase, the availability of easy vehicle loans has made many more likes two wheels to buses or trains, especially because public transportation comes insecure during a pandemic, said the expert, asking anonymit J Sivasubramanam from the Institute of Transportation and developing the word policy of using private vehicles Stored by adopting different strategies to manage demand for various modes of transportation.
Some of them can also bring additional income that can help subsidize public transportation.
Both, Sundararajan said the government could consider the allegations of intro congestion such as in London – where the driver had extra to enter London durin rush hour – or just raise parking fees in parking places in parking lots.
The idea is not to generate income but to make people choose as many public transport as much as possible, he added.