International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Metro Development and Pedestrian Concerns Mukta Latkar-Talwalkar 1Professor, B.V.D.U. College of Architecture, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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speedy and quality travel. Increase in vehicular density, journey times, pollution levels, traffic jams led to inconveniences of the citizens directly hampering the efficiency and effectiveness on various fronts. This strongly demanded an introduction of the Metro Rapid Transport System.
The city of Pune saw a sudden and phenomenal rise in the number of 4-wheelers and 2-wheelers adding to the rise in the traffic density along with all major roads of the city. An efficient and fast public transport system that would deter the people from traveling on their private owned vehicles and encourage them to use the public transport system was proposed as the need of the hour. The PMPML, the existing bus transport in the city with dedicated BRTS lanes in some parts of the city has not been successful enough to reduce the woes of traffic jams and mobility issues in the city. An improved and effective mass rapid transit system, MRTS, thus was envisaged as the perfect solution to the contemporary traffic issues of the city.
An urgent need to introduce a Metro system for quick and large mass movement of passengers was also established by a study of Peak Hour Peak Direction Traffic (PHPDT) Demand, with the metro being proposed over BRTS for 8000 PHPDT. PHPDT values for the Vanaz - Ramvadi corridor in 2021 and 2031 are 8519 and 10,982 respectively [1], with optimistic peak traffic demand assessed to increase to 22,414 PHPDT by the year 2031. Light Metro System, as proposed in the city is thus the most suitable alternative.
This paper attempts to analyse and enlist the issues and concerns from the pedestrian point of view, which seems to have gone unnoticed in the effort of erecting a very sophisticated high level of city infrastructure trying to address and solve the urban menace of traffic volumes and their quick disposal. While the efforts towards the infrastructure provision do ensure developmental benefits which are praise worthy, the paper enumerates how the basic pedestrian provisions and facilities seem to have taken a back seat in planning and its implementation. The author has studied the Karve road stretch to illustrate the impacts being listed. Key Words: Metro, Environment, Mobility
Pedestrians,
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Bus Rapid transport System and Metro Rapid Transport System have always been compared for their effectiveness as a public transport system. Pune already has an operational BRTS and its effectiveness and success w.r.t speedy, quality and mass travel is being deliberated at various levels in addition to its preference by the public and its environmental impact. BRTS in many parts of the city occupies a lane in the middle section of the road. Construction of the BRTS bus stops and its access for pedestrians, exclusive dedicated lane have not been able to successfully solve the increasing traffic issues nor effectively reduce the private ownership.
roads,
1. INTRODUCTION: Why Did Pune Need A Metro ?
The Metro rail corridor occupies no space on the road if underground and about 2 to 3 mts wide road widths if elevated. “Moreover, it carries the same amount of traffic as 9 lanes of bus traffic or 33 lanes of private motor cars (either way) and also consumes approximately 50 percent less energy/passenger carried as compared to BRTS.” [2]
The city of Pune saw a very speedy urbanisation, extensive physical spread, growth in industrialization and rapid commercial developments in the past decades. Increased population (The decadal growth of PMC area is around 35% with population figures for 2001: 23,28,349, 2011: 37,56,345, 2021: 48,07,868 and 2031: 54,43,642) and a phenomenal increase in numbers of vehicles (2 wheelers /1000, in 2021: 437, 2031: 447 and Cars/1000, 2021: 124, 2031: 141) in the city. [1] This led to increased stress for infrastructure, increasing travel times and decreasing the quality of travel, also impacting the social, ecological and environmental concerns rendering the existing road network incapable to handle it. The existing Public
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BRTS versus MRTS
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Pune Metro Timeline
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (DMRC) was commissioned by Pune (PMC) and Pune Chinchwad (PCMC) Municipal Corporations for preparation of Detailed Project Report (DPR) for about 30 km of Metro network in the Pune Metropolitan area.
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