Mass Public Transportation System

Chandigarh was planned in the form of a grid around the use of automobiles with various order of roads as shown in the table. This system of planning however is approaching the end of its shelf life, with the decline of peak oil production and public transportation becoming the new future. The city has also expanded only to the southwest. The people residing in these lower sectors have to travel a long distance toward the northeast in order to reach their place of work. The public transportation system fails to cater to the increasing population leading to an increasing number of private vehicles on the road. Corbusier's masterplan for the future of India, being planned around automobiles, was merely therefore a reflection of the west’s past

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