City roads have breached saturation point, says ProfessorKrishna Rajfrom Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. Roads have exceeded carrying capacity and further entry of new vehicles will lead to gridlocks, which will have an adverse impact on the economy and Environment, he says. In a recent study, we found out that commuters lost 5% of their earnings due to additional fuel costs and traffic delays. Besides this, there was productivity loss and Health cost too, he explained.
His teams study on people who travelled on urban Indian roads for more than an hour a day suggested that 45% suffered from breathlessness or giddiness regularly and many developed psychological problems too.
G Sundarrajan ofPoovulagin Nanbargal, an environmental organisation, said the carbon emissions of so many vehicles would worsen https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change. To accommodate new vehicles, we need to build more roads and bridges, for which we need to destroy more Resources“>Natural Resources. Its a vicious circle.
Tamil Nadus road length has increased by roughly 60,000km in the past decade and half a dozen new bridges have come up in the city, but this hasnt helped ease traffic.