News Discussion17mo
by GigglyNarwhalSoftware Engineer
ZoomyMuffin
Infra isnt a problem, cars are...
Cars are a terrible way of transporting people, they take up a lot of space and slow down traffic movement. SF has the best and widest freeways but has the worst traffic. Being a middle income nation about to invest in infra, we have to make a choice if we want to go the American way? Or can we come up with an Indian solution.
After a decade of flyover construction, it might be too late. We will end up with even larger city with 4X the road length and much worse traffic.
I believe in the European approach of paid entry for cars in Central Business District to discourage car ridership and funding Public Transport.
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SwirlyTaco
Stealth19mo
Bangalore is a case study on how to kill a city in 50 years.
We're midway through that journey and I'll be surprised if it sustains as an urban agglomeration beyond 2049.
ZoomyMuffin
Stealth19mo
I wanna stay optimistic. Was reading an old piece about Sao Paulo 2010. Traffic there was so worse that a startup was doing helicopter rides for CEOs on rooftop helipads over business districts. Roads in Brazil were bad that grains got wasted on trucks and fell off due to potholes. Some Ruchir Sharma's book.
Indian indicators are much better. I hope municipal bonds go mainstream
SwirlyTaco
Stealth19mo
Traffic is the least of Bangalore's troubles. In decreasing order of gravity (per me):
Potable Water Waste disposal (Solid & Sewage) Power Transportation
You may still solve the last two. Waste disposal needs huge and painful rework and investment.
Water is near impossible to solve for and will be Bangalore's downfall.
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Indian Startups20mo
by TwirlySushiBusiness Development M...
if given enough money and resources, what problem will you solve?
To all the Entrepreneurial minds here. If given enough money and resources and time what problem will you solve?
I’ll go first. If I had enough, I would solve air pollution. I think its a massive massive problem in urban India and wi...
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Poverty, will build sustainable businesses for bottom of the pyramid, will focus on vocational training and building ...
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Autonomous vehicles on rent. Should have enough protocols that we manage and coordinate traffic on a city level. W...
Bangalore16mo
by PerkyNoodleGrowth Marketer
Bengaluru - An Attitude Check
Keeping my biases aside, I've seen 2 sides of the entire people's behaviour and culture:
- Locals (folks from the city/state) are known to refer to the ones from other states as "outsiders" or "immigrants". We have seen some extreme ca...
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I don't think it has anything to do with outsiders or insiders. The problem is that the locals fails to understand th...
Bangalore19mo
by GigglyNarwhalSoftware Engineer
🤡List of Roads w/ Congestion Tax
Instead of solving problems like: Limited metro Highly unreliable buses Carpooling banned Bike taxis banned Mafia autos Dug up streets Eternally unfinished flyovers Limited wide roads Shit road to road connections Extremely few pedestria...
