Posts about India

India plans to sprawl: India's urban growth will predominately be in secondary cities rather than "primate" cities, decentralizing the massive population shift expected in the country away from traditional urban cores. (Times Of India) (Comment)

Pedestrian bridges fail in India: Mumbai and other Indian cities find most pedestrians won't use "skywalks," but that doesn't stop them getting built, including one that is the equivalent of walking up a 6-story building. (The Hindu, Ben Ross) (Comment)

Quite a joy ride: A nine-year-old Indian boy boarded a train while playing around in Bangalore city and it departed before he got off. Four months later he was reunited with his family. (BBC News) (Comment)

Changing behavior in Paris without government: Drivers on a Paris bus line created a Web site for people to get to know them and what their job is like (Le Bus 38) ... Groups of private citizens, like the Bad Behavior Brigade, try to change social norms including littering, public urination and more in Paris and New Delhi. (City Journal)
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Private vans provide access, conflict: Privately-run transit vans are on the rise in New York, accessing areas otherwise underserved by transit. They've also sparked some violence between competing operators and create some hazards due to poor regulation, not unlike similar systems in Delhi and Cairo. (NY Times, Our Delhi Struggle) (Comment)

Indian freeway turns town square into barrier: India put a 4-lane freeway (with camel lanes) in place of a crowded 2-lane rural road that had also functioned somewhat like a town square. Now people can get to other cities faster and it triggered a new engineering college nearby, but designers didn't accommodate crossing pedestrians, and people cross all the time, leading to many more deaths.
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