Dilli Chhoro!

The other day I drove on the latest experiment of the “transport planner” – the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) corridor in south Delhi.

This is “knowledge failure” – it struck me.

The twin bus lanes are empty and the two car lanes are jammed. Road pricing might help on some of these stretches, but the real solution is to build proper roads.

But then, the design and construction of roads, and their layout, is also supposed to be based on “knowledge”.

In which case, all of New Delhi outside the area that the Brits left behind is an example of “knowledge failure”.

The urban planners and designers, the urban arts committee, the development authority, the transport authorities, the state government and its municipality – they are all working under widespread knowledge failure.

This capital city of socialism is a failed city because the knowledge with which it is governed is in serious error.

The solution is already here:

Private developers are roping in foreign architectural firms to design the new townships that will soon emerge all over India.

Then Dilli Chhoro – and split to one of these new, private townships; that too, one where the weather is pleasant all year through, unlike Delhi.

Theme Song of the Day:

Jefferson Starship’s “We Built This City On Rock-n-Roll”.