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Imagine Mumbai City without the Railway line. What to the intermediate transport systems like taxis, autos,
will happen? Are the roads in Mumbai enough to take the aggregators, and the last mile connectivity needs to be
entire traffic? No. Now let me add one more parameter seriously looked into. It is possible provided we do a policy
for the Mumbai Transport system. Given the beautifully thinking.
functioning local train system in Mumbai, what if we give The challenge is land acquistion. Mumbai does not
BRTS perpendicular to the Railway line so that each time have any land.
the train stops, each time thousand people walk out of the I think this is a myth. Let me remove it straight away.
station, they are taken away to their workplace or their There is a general feeling that a BRTS requires another
home? It will be beautifully and seamlessly done. Then lane. It does not. One lane from the three or four available
the personal vehicles present at each railway station will lanes can be dedicated for the BRTS bus.
reduce. That is the kind of solution each city should think Let’s look at the psychology of the bus. It is a huge
about, and each local administration should talk about. body with a big engine because of which it picks up speed
Integrating the public transport from Metro to the BRTS after a few seconds. When it picks up speed, it cannot be

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