Sarika Panda Bhatt ( ସାରିକା ପଣ୍ଡା ) She/Her@SarikaPanda
My take on the Gurgaons situation in today’s @htTweets by @leenadhankhar .
It’s shocking that in a city as new and supposedly simple as Gurgaon, it can take two hours to travel just two kilometres during a downpour. This isn’t the legacy problem of an old city; it’s a textbook failure of modern planning. Gurgaon’s original mistake was separating land use and mobility - zoning massive office hubs and residential areas as if they were on different planets, forcing millions into unsustainable, car-dependent travel patterns.
Unlike Gurgaon, Delhi has the Metro and buses as its backbone, and Noida was designed with a more integrated structure. Gurgaon’s chaos is worse because it was a predictable outcome of a developer-driven model that ignored basic planning principles.
The solutions aren’t new - they’ve been on paper for over a decade in the Comprehensive Mobility Plan. What we need now is execution: a fleet of at least 1,000 public buses on a reliable network, safe and continuous footpaths as per IRC standards, and an expanded metro system linking Gurgaon with Dwarka, Faridabad, Manesar, and Sohna. We must move beyond studies and actually build sustainable, on-ground solutions.
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