Comments on: Chill my ride? Win a hummer? No thanks! http://live-the-solution.com/blog/chill-my-ride-win-a-hummer-no-thanks/ Learn it. Do it. Save it. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: sandrar http://live-the-solution.com/blog/chill-my-ride-win-a-hummer-no-thanks/#comment-64 sandrar Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:04:42 +0000 http://live-the-solution.com/blog/chill-my-ride-win-a-hummer-no-thanks/#comment-64 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> By: Krishnaraj Rao http://live-the-solution.com/blog/chill-my-ride-win-a-hummer-no-thanks/#comment-15 Krishnaraj Rao Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:36:53 +0000 http://live-the-solution.com/blog/chill-my-ride-win-a-hummer-no-thanks/#comment-15 About this post of yours, Jane, I agree that vehicles like hummers stand for everything that our lifestyles shouldn't be about! We need to make people widely aware of the sheer ridiculousness of vehicles as status symbols or ego-boosters. In fact, there is an urgent need to take a stand against personalized transport per se, especially in overcrowded metros such as Mumbai, where I live. It is urgent to define the optimal ratio of vehicles to roadspace & parking space available, or rather... No. & Size of vehicles : Sq. metres of road & parking space Every city can carry only so many cars in terms of its roadspace and parking spaces without becoming increasingly dysfunctional, unliveable and unmotorable. I personally believe that Mumbai's optimum was reached and crossed back in the early 90s. Therefore it is necessary to take an unpopular measure and cap the number of vehicles, and roll back by about 10 years. Failing this, the benefits of technology advances will fail to convert into social advances. They will only add unproductivity by clogging the motoring and living spaces of various metros. Jane, I hope people like us will have the moral courage to say up loud that 'The emperor has no clothes'. I hope we will have the guts to vociferously lobby for unpopular measures such as defining strict public limits on growth of vehicular populations. Warmly, Krish http://globalwarming.rediffiland.com http://friendlyghost.rediffiland.com About this post of yours, Jane, I agree that vehicles like hummers stand for everything that our lifestyles shouldn’t be about! We need to make people widely aware of the sheer ridiculousness of vehicles as status symbols or ego-boosters.

In fact, there is an urgent need to take a stand against personalized transport per se, especially in overcrowded metros such as Mumbai, where I live.

It is urgent to define the optimal ratio of vehicles to roadspace & parking space available, or rather…
No. & Size of vehicles : Sq. metres of road & parking space

Every city can carry only so many cars in terms of its roadspace and parking spaces without becoming increasingly dysfunctional, unliveable and unmotorable. I personally believe that Mumbai’s optimum was reached and crossed back in the early 90s.

Therefore it is necessary to take an unpopular measure and cap the number of vehicles, and roll back by about 10 years. Failing this, the benefits of technology advances will fail to convert into social advances. They will only add unproductivity by clogging the motoring and living spaces of various metros.

Jane, I hope people like us will have the moral courage to say up loud that ‘The emperor has no clothes’. I hope we will have the guts to vociferously lobby for unpopular measures such as defining strict public limits on growth of vehicular populations.

Warmly,
Krish
http://globalwarming.rediffiland.com
http://friendlyghost.rediffiland.com

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