This blog is written after witnessing INDIAN CITY where there is heavy congestion in residential areas.
Often we see cars are parked in the space meant for pedestrians, more so, during night time. Since in a developed residential area, there is hardly any space left vacant, searching for exclusive parking space at the ground level is near impossibility. But , I feel there is solution, of course with a cost.
The roads inside residential areas should be dug to a suitable depth so that the cavity so formed shall be used for parking car (underground parking). Since there is hardly any requirement of heavy vehicle movement in residential area, the covering the underground with proper structure should not cost too much.
I also wish to extend this idea a bit more. Why cann't we also have an underground road in the residential area so that road at the surface could be used for children to play. I mean, there should be a designated stretch of surface (ground level road) beneath which the underground road should be constructed for vehicular traffic as well as pedestrian movement.
Finally, it is high time to have network of underground multi- purpose pipeline arrangement. I imagine such a pipeline arrangement must cater to water flow, gas flow (in future, gas may be supplied to houses through pipes) optical fibre cable laying, electric cable laying. An integrated approach will be cost effective, in the sense, repeated digging of grounds destruction/reconstruction of pavements witnessed could be avoided.
Though, the above ideas look to be cost intensive, considering long term benefits, such ideas should be explored, to begin with as a pilot project. Hope some day .. I wish to see my above ideas realised somewhere.
Often we see cars are parked in the space meant for pedestrians, more so, during night time. Since in a developed residential area, there is hardly any space left vacant, searching for exclusive parking space at the ground level is near impossibility. But , I feel there is solution, of course with a cost.
The roads inside residential areas should be dug to a suitable depth so that the cavity so formed shall be used for parking car (underground parking). Since there is hardly any requirement of heavy vehicle movement in residential area, the covering the underground with proper structure should not cost too much.
I also wish to extend this idea a bit more. Why cann't we also have an underground road in the residential area so that road at the surface could be used for children to play. I mean, there should be a designated stretch of surface (ground level road) beneath which the underground road should be constructed for vehicular traffic as well as pedestrian movement.
Finally, it is high time to have network of underground multi- purpose pipeline arrangement. I imagine such a pipeline arrangement must cater to water flow, gas flow (in future, gas may be supplied to houses through pipes) optical fibre cable laying, electric cable laying. An integrated approach will be cost effective, in the sense, repeated digging of grounds destruction/reconstruction of pavements witnessed could be avoided.
Though, the above ideas look to be cost intensive, considering long term benefits, such ideas should be explored, to begin with as a pilot project. Hope some day .. I wish to see my above ideas realised somewhere.
