With vehicular traffic increasing on Delhi roads, the 17-member High-Power Committee set up last week discussed ways to decongest the city and decided on a course of action including more elevated roads and bus rapid transport system.
Sources said the committee held its first meeting on October 10 under the chairmanship of Shankar Aggarwal, Secretary (Urban Development).
The members of the Committee and representatives of the Delhi Government and various other agencies like DMRC, Railways, Delhi Police, Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), DDA, etc raised various issues relating to traffic congestion and the possible solutions. Multiplicity of organisations involved in Delhi urban transport planning, non-availability of parking spaces including for DTC buses, poor integration of different modes of transport, heavy congestion at and in the vicinity of railway stations, inadequate preparedness to meet the challenge of rapidly growing traffic etc. were some of the major causes of congestion in the National Capital, sources said.
Mr. Aggarwal said that restricted mobility adversely impacts the productivity of Delhi.
