A two-wheeler has proven to be the best way to beat traffic in Urban cities of India. While commuting from Ameerpet to Himayatanagar in Hyderabad, I usually prefer driving a two-wheeler & taking Raj Bhavan road for its natural & beautiful ambiance.
Today, I assume due to some political event at Raj Bhavan (an official residence of Governor of Andhra-Pradesh), acted as a curse for hefty traffic jams at Punjagutta Road, Raj Bhavan Road & Greenland's Road during peak morning weekday commute hours of the city. This made the usual 15 minute commute at morning times to more than an hour making an exhausting start to the bright sunny day.
Being stuck in traffic (without wearing a helmet) & finding my way ahead forward I have to inhale dense smokes due to burning of carbon fuel in Auto-rickshaws & RTA buses (an Auto-ricksaw in India is usually meant as three wheeled cabin motor-cycle as a vehicle for hire).
And this made the usual 1/4 hour commute to about an hour.
I wonder, an additional 3/4 hour was worth spending to accommodate Indian political activity ?
I wonder, an additional 3/4 hour was worth spending to accommodate Indian political activity ?
More about Auto-rickshaw bans around the developing countries:
In July 1998, the Supreme Court of India ordered the Delhi government to implement CNG or LPG (Autogas) fuel for all autos and for the entire bus fleet in and around the city.[citation needed] Delhi's air quality has improved with the switch to CNG. Initially, auto rickshaw drivers in Delhi had to wait in long queues for CNG refueling, but the situation has improved with the increase of CNG stations. Certain local governments are pushing for four-stroke engines instead of the current two-stroke versions. Typical mileage for an Indian-made auto rickshaw is around 35 kilometers per liter of petrol (about 2.9 L per 100 km, or 82 miles per gallon [United States (wet measure), 100 miles per gallon Imperial (United Kingdom, Canada)]. Pakistan has passed a similar law prohibiting auto rickshaws in certain areas. CNG auto rickshaws have started to appear in huge numbers in many Pakistani cities.
In January 2007 the Sri Lankan government also banned two-stroke trishaws to reduce air pollution. In the Philippines[18] there are projects to convert carburated two-stroke engines to direct-injected via Envirofit technology. Research has shown LPG or CNG gas direct-injection to be retrofit-able to existing engines in similar fashion to the Envirofit system.[19] In Vigan City majority of tricycles-for-hire as of 2008 are powered by motorcycles with four-stroke engines, as tricycles with two-stroke motorcycles are prevented from receiving operating permits. Direct injection is standard equipment on new machines in India.[20][21]
In March 2009 an international consortium coordinated by the International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies initiated a two-year public-private partnership of local and international stakeholders aiming at operating a fleet of 15 hydrogen-fueled three-wheeled vehicles in New Delhi's Pragati Maidan complex.[22] As of January 2011, the project was upon completion.
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