NEW DELHI, Feb 03, 2008: Increasing number of personal vehicles, stagnant road space, more vehicular pollution and a marginalised public transport system indicates the alarming state of city's traffic, according to a new study.
More than half of total cities of the country, especially the smaller ones, are choking on critical levels of pollution and congestion, according to the study conducted by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).
By 2030, cars alone will burn up nearly the same amount of energy consumed by the entire road transport today, it said.
"Individually owned vehicles today have marginalised buses that comprise mere 1.1 per cent of the vehicular fleet. It is no wonder that the problem of traffic jams and congestion have become norms of the day," says Anumita Roychoudhary, Associate Director, CSE.
Despite more than 20 per cent of land area dedicated to roads and increase in total road length by about 20 per cent since 1996, traffic speed and road availability per vehicle in Delhi has actually dropped, the study says.
While cars are owned by just a quarter of Delhi's total population, they are signalling a traffic time bomb.
On the other hand, over 60 per cent of total population in the capital either travels by buses, bicycles or walks to work, making them the worst hit of one of the dreaded modern day traffic problem.
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