Badly Designed Cities Can Lead To More Warming And Pollution
The original design of Indian cities more compact – promoted walking and cycling. Growing sizes of cities and their bad design is leading to urban sprawl, increasing travel distances and time, leading to congestion, global warming and pollution.
Detours caused by car-centric infrastructure like flyovers, signal-free corridors and foot overbridges can increase carbon emissions — this is the result of conversion of small walkable trips to longer motorized trips.
Investments in metro and buses can be wasted if access to public transport systems is not designed well.
The way a city is designed and planned can have far-reaching implications for the congestion and pollution problems in the city. For example, the urban design of Delhi has led to an increase in travel distances and urban sprawl – said experts ttending the second workshop in a two-day workshop series on ‘transport and climate’ organized here today by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Today’s sessions focused on the overall subject of ‘Designing cities for sustainable mobility’.
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