Govt gets gyan on traffic

lse stalwart says city's problems may aggravate in a decade. Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics, shared tips with government officials

on how to manage traffic efficiently in the city. He recounted how different the situation was when he visited the city in the 80s. At a function organised at Vidhana Soudha on Saturday,

Nicholas said the traffic management in Bangalore was incredibly inefficient. “You (officials) have to think about how to manage the traffic situation in a better way. If this is the

scenario today, imagine what is going to happen in 10 years,” he said. He added that the government should work towards designing solutions for these traffic woes. He noted that the traffic

situation in the city was draining people physically, besides eating into their time. “I stayed here for six months in the 1980s with my family. Compared with present day, the traffic was

minimal back then,” he observed. Speaking on climate change, he said countries should strike a balance between innovation, development, and climate change. Chairperson of the legislative

council, DH Shankaramurthy said the study on climate change was a novel initiative, attempted by a state government for the first time in India. He assured that the government would

incorporate the findings of the report. Former minister Prof BK Chandrashekar, Professor NH Ravindranath of Centre for Sustainable Technologies, IISC, Dr DV Arunachalam, chairman of Centre

for Study of Science, Technology and Policy, and other dignitaries were present.