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Mumbai: Mumbai ranks second among the cities with the most traffic in India. Mumbai's Traffic Quality Index (TQI) is 787. Traffic index is calculated by covering outcomes like vehicle speed, number of vehicles, number of accidents and quality of traffic management etc.
Bengaluru ranks first in the ranking of traffic congestion. Bengaluru's TQI is between 800 and 1000, while Mumbai's TQI is 787, Delhi's 747 and Hyderabad's 718. A report in February this year said that Pune and Bengaluru have the highest traffic density. In the year 2023, the average travel time per 10 km in Bengaluru was 28 minutes 10 seconds, while in Pune it was 27 minutes 50 seconds. This has been said in an international survey report.
In the year 2023, Pune was the sixth most congested city in India with a travel time of 34 minutes for a ten kilometer journey. This day was 8 September 2023. On average, it took 21 minutes 40 seconds to cover the same distance in Delhi, while in Mumbai it took 21 minutes 20 seconds.
A private company organized a mobility seminar detailing competing cities. It was told that in Bengaluru, the traffic is least at 8 am and maximum at 6 pm.
A senior police officer during the discussion said that even though we have installed 9,000 CCTV cameras in Bengaluru and the data is fed into a map-based software service, traffic congestion cannot be reduced during peak hours and monsoon. Is. A traffic expert said building more tunnel roads, elevated corridors could be a temporary solution. Nowadays there is a need to develop public transport. Doubling the number of buses will reduce private vehicles and can provide relief.