Monday, June 16, 2014

Reconstruct Markets and not Convert Pedestrian spaces for Emergency Vehicles

A Dedicated Corridor for Emergency Vehicles seems like a bizarre solution as a response to the recent difficulties faced in fighting a major fire.

If a vehicle can reach some place, experience in India tells us that vehicles will be parked there!

Even if they have an alert tow-away service to make sure that no vehicle blocks the emergency corridors, how will it be applicable in any other sector's market?

I worked for  a while in one such building in sector 17 of Chandigarh. The stairway was dingy and narrow. Most stairways I have been in Sector 17 remind me of ugly urban structures in urgent need of renewal.

Why not let one or more blocks be redeveloped as a single integrated complex with adequate parking within the complex, wide stairways and conveniences like escalators and elevators.

Imagine a software firm constructing a high rise workplace with upper floors as residential flats and restaurants on the lower floors :)

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