While registration of new two-wheelers logged a 19% increase this year, the number of new private cars on city roads has gone up by a whopping 340%. In 2022-23, a little over 36,000 cars were registered. This number went up to nearly 1.6 lakh in this financial year.
They are of the view that development projects are being taken up without conducting feasibility studies or alternative analyses guided by science — such haphazard expansion of the city while ignoring the essentials of sustainable planning, mobility, and environmental impact will further add to the chaos.
The study that examined the impact of the four-lane tunnel road project on Bengaluru’s air showed that by 2030, the road infrastructure will increase the carbon dioxide (CO2) and particulate matter (PM) emissions by nearly 4% compared to business as usual (without tunnel road construction) scenario.
‘Let’s Move Bengaluru’ was organised as a followup on the mobility demands of Karnataka, which were enlisted in the Congress’s mobility manifesto during the Karnataka assembly polls in May.
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