Highways Planners of India

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I personally am supremely unqualified, either as a highway engineer or a contractor, but as a technocrat, I do sometimes wonder, why are Indian highway and urban planners, so insensitive and blind to the needs of the Indian cyclist.
Is it that the highway and city planners, never think they will ever be cycling or walking in their life ?
There is no attempt, to even invite any suggestions, from cyclists, or for that matter even pedestrians, as to the shape of future Indian highways, when the plans are being drawn up. Maybe, all the planners assume that in India, roads and highways, are meant for trucks and buses, police jeeps, Toyota Corollas belonging to politicians and their ilk, and for private cars.
The thought of the cyclist and of the pedestrian is totally absent from the blueprints like Road Development Vision 2021, which envisages 80,000 km of modern highways and link roads.
Amusingly, need was perceived for drawing up a separate Rural Road Development Plan 2025.
The Prime Minister also has initiated a Grameen Sadak Yojana in anticipation of farmers, bringing their farm produce to the warehouses of retail chains like Tesco, Walmart, Reliance, Ambanis and Sahara.
How much will it cost the Indian government to lay out sustainable cycling tracks, besides the highways ? Nobody has the time for such questions, these are all brushed aside like rural dirt.
Even a city like New Delhi, which has a much higher number of cyclists compared to car drivers, has no cycle tracks or integrated planning for pedestrian crossings.
But then, like all other Indian middle class super power aspirations, Indian planners feel it is more important to have highways without cycling tracks, and pedestrian facilities, just like it is more important for India, to be in Security Council, rather than, have prosperous farmers who need not commit mass suicides.