A Year of Misplaced Priorities

Priorities this year have been: non-operational Bangalore Metropolitan Land Transport Authority (BMLTA), continued fragmented governance of mobility, ad hoc based decision-making and infrastructure planning by ULBs, dormant DULT, complete lack of public and stakeholder engagement on mobility infrastructure planning, and absence of push measures to discourage ownership and usage of personal vehicles (especially cars).

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While there were genuine attempts by Bangalore traffic police to make use of AI, its effectiveness will always be limited as long as the above-mentioned baseline issues remain unsolved. Moreover, traffic police as an organisation lacks technical knowhow and competence to handle the function of traffic management; rather, their role should ideally be restricted to traffic law enforcement.