What "I" Will Plan Very Well - In Daulatabad-upon-the-Sea

South Delhi is known as "posh" - but is road layout has been faulty from the very beginning. As with this Vasant Kunj arterial road, so with the Outer Ring Road, everything in this area is laid out in T-junctions. Thus, over the years, flyovers have become necessary. The authorities build one flyover after another - and still the traffic crawls. Building flyovers is something they like. It is their "business." And it is our money, and our Time, that gets wasted this way. 


This is a NEW CITY. This Vasant Kunj area did not exist when I was in college here in the late 1970s.


Our revered "central planners" could not plan out the layout of the city in which they are headquartered. And they want to make plans for the entire sub-continent!


The initial layout of a city is very important - because this cannot be easily changed, as private properties line both sides, and hence this layout must last. New York was laid out in a "grid pattern." New Delhi - the British part - was laid out in "hubs-and-spokes." Both work well till date. Singapore and Hong Kong are also new cities that work. We can also look at good old Calcutta - where the footpath on Chowringhee is wider that this footpathless Vasant Kunj arterial road. And as far as the Maidan opposite is concerned, you cannot see the other side of this immense public park.


Thus, in Daulatabad-upon-the-Sea, I as Lord Mayor will pay close attention to this very important Capital Investment: the streets, and their layout. Of course, experts will be hired. Today, tiny Karwar is laid out in a "grid pattern" - and we will have to build upon that. 


Connaught Place here in New Delhi is worth looking at - the architecture imported from the City of Bath, and everything arranged in "hubs-and-spokes."


Let us hope and pray that I do a good job of this. I shall surely try - very hard.


As far as our central planners go - the gist of what I wrote yesterday and also the day before, is this: Businessmen try to guess our needs in the future, and then gamble upon their guesses with their own money, their capital.


On the other hand, these planners of The State invest our taxes and printed money and borrowings et. al. in things we do Not need; things we never ever asked for. They spend this money on whatever suits them - like propaganda masking itself as education, compulsory at that. Or MGNREGA and "food security" - because they make their "ill-gotten wealth" from such expenditures.

THROW THE RASCALS OUT!