Transportation
Kolkata Tries to Reduce Traffic in the Worst Possible Way
Officials recently decided to prohibit people form using bicycles on nearly 200 streets in the central city during the day.
If you’ve ever been to India, you know how crazy the traffic can be. Every type of vehicle fights for space on roads that seem to have little or no organizing principle. Buses, bicycles, livestock, trucks, three-wheel taxis, motorcycles, rickshaws, and anything else that moves battle it out in a life-threatening scrum.
Now the city of Kolkata, population 14 million, has decided to do something about it. Something that, quite frankly, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.