2006-09-08 23:28:05 · 14 answers · asked by czar 1 in Travel ➔ India ➔ Bangalore
A research project on road-user costs sponsored jointly by the Government of India and the World Bank has recently been completed in India. As part of this project, an attempt was made to build relationships between vehicle operating-cost components and road, traffic, vehicle, and environmental factors. India presents a wide variety of these conditions. Roads in India are improved in stages in view of the paucity of funds. A major portion of the roads are single-lane, bidirectional, and unpaved. Traffic is heterogeneous in character; it consists of fast-moving as well as animal-drawn vehicles. Climate and topography change across the country. The work was carried out by collecting real-life data on cost of operation of about 1000 vehicles of different types. The results prove that horizontal curvature, vertical profile, pavement roughness, and pavement width are some of the important factors influencing vehicle operating costs. These results are likely to be of great value in evaluating benefits that are possible from highway improvements and in arriving at sound investment decisions. Since the conditions in India are typical of developing countries, the results can be of value to other developing countries
2006-09-09 02:14:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well,Most of the Indian Roads - Be it Delhi,Bangalore,Bhopal,Calcutta , Mumbai, Chennai and any other City or even Villages need to be improved. And New Roads need to be built where there are no Roads. And while the Government is doing its bit , a lot of Investments and reducing Corruption is needed for this .
2006-09-09 06:36:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The money wasted giving free color TVs and free electricity and the money wasted building flyovers where there is no such need, could be spent on building proper quality roads and buying more buses for public transport. As cities expand, transport will be the single biggest headache and time waster. Just as it has happened in Bombay already.
2006-09-09 06:45:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am from the UK, and spent 6 months in India, whilst some roads where poor, I did not leave thinking it was a big issue (however you can't see everything in 6 months).
2006-09-12 17:20:36 · answer #4 · answered by D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Siting in Bangalore, your question is right, but visit Hyderabad or Chennai, then you will learn how much India has developed.
2006-09-09 14:19:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not enough to sale our toll roads to foriegn investment groups.
2006-09-09 06:32:15 · answer #6 · answered by saturn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not only road
all should be improved
2006-09-10 05:01:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely, but there is no chance in hell, esp in a city like Bangalore
2006-09-12 12:40:52 · answer #8 · answered by A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, just visit whitefield road in bangalore
you will faint in traffic !
2006-09-10 01:26:46 · answer #9 · answered by nice guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most definitely. And not just during election time.
2006-09-09 12:46:04 · answer #10 · answered by cookiedough. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋