When I've just watched a video about cycling infrastructure in Oslo and Amsterdam before gearing up to fight for my life on Mumbai's roads
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30492376
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Mumbai has very frequent local trains, right? And buses?
And next to no cycling infrastructure, which is why I have to go to war with cars and big-ass trucks on the roads every day
Let is know you're still alive !
I'm an old hand, I've made it this far
What's your commute time/distance like?
14km one way. Takes me a little under a half hour to get to work in the mornings, longer on the way back home because there's a fuckton of unruly traffic at that time of day
30km/h is godly speed in such conditions
It must be scorching to ride in Mumbai, big kudos there
It is, but the monsoon's about to roll in so it's a little better at the minute. Humid as fuck though
You have to get from the station to where you want to go. I've seen enough videos of Indian traffic to imagin that's no fun without a ton of steel around you
"Traffic laws are more guidelines than rules". Is basically the motto in any south Asian country. China also used to be bad but they are real heavy on the camera enforcement and will even ticket speeders by timing between cameras.
ticket speeders by timing between cameras.
You mean that they use average speed cameras?
I mean that they'll take a pictures potentially miles apart and calculate speed by the time between them rather than just speed at time of capture via radar or induction loop.
Yes, the name of that concept is average speed camera
Oh lol wrong interpretation of average. Yes, that's what China uses. I know some western countries have implemented or considered them as well but for the most part at least in the US speed cameras are only at moment of capture (or slightly before if you want to be technical)
UK uses them a lot,especially around road works to enforce the reduced limit.
Traffic density doesn't cause any problem, it is slow traffic anyway, especially last-mile localities. Maybe there are no local trains on his route.
The main concern with traffic density would be polluted air, which you'd breathe more of when cycling.
Traffic density doesn’t cause any problem
It does when the traffic is so dense that you can't get by even on foot, let alone on a bike. I've had the misfortune of spending 20 minutes marooned in the same spot in the middle of a traffic jam because I was boxed in with no space to pass anywhere.
We take "bumper to bumper" traffic quite literally in this neck of the woods.
There's actually pretty decent public transit on my route, but I'd have to take a bus for half of it, which...well, see above.
Well, population density does that, I guess! Not much to be done about it, even in other parts of India with population not as crazily dense as Mumbai.
Between that and avoidable traffic jams created by vehicles blocking intersections, cycling may be the fastest method but also needs breathing more polluted air. But the time overhead of public transport can't be reduced with this population density. So ... a rock and a hard place!
If you can get in one.
After pandemic many people have migrated to outer parts of the city. Since WFH stopped them travelling daily to work have increased the load on an heavily burdened public transport.
There are projects to move some of the people to other modes of transport. They have their own hurdles, ageing existing infrastructure, crowded and haphazardly constructed areas, bureaucracy slowing down construction.
Yeah and they are very packed to the gills as well, there's way too many people moving to this tiny city from all over the country and the goverment puts no regulations to regulate this migration, there's not enough housing for these people's and that's how slums develop, but these people become the local goon/politicians vote bank so they will support this, instead of actually improving the city