A comprehensive mobility plan for the Coimbatore Corporation is in its final stages, according to an official source.
The Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited, a State Government funding agency, had asked a private management agency to prepare the plan after studying the transportation policy that was prepared a few years, as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
The agency will present the mobility plan executive summary to the stake holders, who will provide final inputs for the final report.
The executive summary, which is now ready, has not recommended any form of mass transit project for Coimbatore.
It is for the funding agency, and the State Government to take a call, the source says.
The executive summary takes into account non-motorised transport system for the city like bicycle tracks, pedestrian pathways and no-vehicle zones.
It has factored in the Coimbatore Corporation’s move to build an integrated bus stand near Vellalore, along the Coimbatore bypass road.
The source says that an interesting find in the summary is that if a circular or ring road was to be built, and bus stand placed closer to it, the city could do well without 22 per cent of its traffic. This may strengthen the civic body’s efforts to go in for an integrated bus stand.
The summary has omitted including the railway projects though such suggestions were made at the stakeholders’ meeting.
It only talks about road transport.
Once the final report is submitted, the government may come out with a suitable mass transit project for the city, the source adds.
