India’s largest city, and the eighth largest globally, Mumbai houses more than 1.2 crore people according to Census 2011. The city traffic has a notorious image, with frequent traffic jams being reported routinely in the media. However, the Draft Development Plan for Greater Mumbai 2014-2034 conveys a different story of how the city moves. The plan reveals that more than half of the city uses non-motorised modes of transport such as walking and cycling (51%). 42% of the trips are catered to by public modes of transport, including trains, buses, auto rickshaws etc, while the share of cars, two-wheelers and…
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Amit Bhatt is the director of integrated transport at WRI India. He is based in Delhi and provides vision and leadership to all transport initiatives across WRI India. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, a Master’s degree in Transport Planning and an additional Master’s degree in Economics.