The Singur Affair - Where do we park these 1 lakh rupee cars coming from Singur?

Everytime I go out in my car in Bangalore I find it impossible to find a parking space. I find that it is easier to take an autorickshaw to go to most places in the city. That way I avoid the hassle of finding a parking space. What will it be like in future I wonder? Where will we park our cars? The real problem with the Tata-Singur, West Bengal project is not Mamata Banerjee's blackmail but where will we park all these 1 lakh rupee cars?

I had suggested several years ago that the government should encourage the construction of parking buildings. In public areas land should be given to enterpreneurs on a build, operate and tranfer basis. Parking on the roads in the vicinity of a parking building should be banned. 100% depreciation and tax free status should be offered to all parking buildings. Underground parking buildings should be given government subsidy

Our cities cannot expand since our roads have been planned so badly. I often wondered why New York and other cities in the USA have no telephone poles. They never dig up the streets in most cities in USA or Europe to lay new sewage or water lines or electricity connections. They have huge underground pipelines that carry Water , Sewage, Electricity and now even internet lines. They have even developed electric vehicles to traverse the length of these pipes for repairs and maintenance. The most interesting part is that they have done all this in the early 1900s. At least the new extensions of our cities should have had these ideas incorporated. Someone told me the reason why roads even in new areas of the city are so bad. The politicians force the narrowing of roads and collect huge bribes from the land owners who benefit

The highway between Chennai and Bangalore is so nice but the moment you reach either city the traffic is simply awful. Once you reach the outskirts of each city the nightmare starts. Just travelling through each city to reach your destination takes half the time it took to travel the entire distance between Bangalore and Chennai.

Underground railways by burrowing deep underground and crisscrossing the cities with subway trains is the only answer. Only the exit point for the escalator from the underground station will come overground like in London.

Our politicians have messed up our cities so badly. All new cities should be left to private enterpreneurs. Satellite cities should be setup 50 to 150 kilometers from the main cities. They should be setup like SEZs by private enterpreneurs. The private enterpreneurs should be in complete charge of these cities. They should be allowed to charge for proper Water, Electricity,Transportation and Sewage. Land appreciation will pay for the infrastructure. The better the infrastructure in each city the better will be the prices the enterpreneurs will command

If we build proper roads all over India the reduction in the consumption of diesel and petrol will pay for the cost of enhancing the roads. If our tax money is spent only on the construction of Irrigation canals, Metros in cities, Roads, Defense and the Police the resulting job creation will create a prosperous country