Led Tasso

A country that can build coastal highways in Mumbai and train bridges across gorges in Kashmir can also easily have the basics in tourist spots like well maintained trails, trash collection, and clean toilets. That India doesn't have those things is a choice, not oversight.

🇩🇪Absolute masterclass in road discipline on the German Autobahn! When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, a crystal-clear emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances, fire trucks, and rescue vehicles can fly through at full speed. It’s the law in Germany and Austria, and it literally saves lives. This is how you do it!

Only if they weren’t running utterly corrupt governments in Maharashtra & Centre - the infrastructure wouldn’t be leaking & collapsing all around you. ₹37000 crores were spent on this Metro - yet, within 6 months, the corruption is leaking.

An ambulance carrying a pregnant woman overturned after being hit by a speeding Innova. With sirens blaring, the Innova still didn’t give way. The real issue is: many drivers simply don’t care for ambulances on our roads and that’s truly unfortunate.

📍Ludhiana, Punjab: A father returning from school with his child on a bike fell into an open sewage pit, highlighting serious civic negligence, with questions being raised over the Municipal Corporation’s responsibility for leaving it uncovered.

This is what Atal Setu or Mumbai Coastal road would have looked like with integrated metro rail or RRTS.

Mumbai could have built a modern coastal commuter railway moving 10× more people, like the Rodalies de Catalunya I rode in Barcelona. Instead, it chose a massive bridge in the sea for cars, the least efficient and most polluting way to move a city. 🚇🌊

🚨 India is planning to build 100 new airports and 200 helipads in smaller towns and cities. (Bloomberg)