Chhattisgarh’s Urban Administration and Development Minister Amar Agrawal who visited United States in September last year had asked his Department’s officials to prepare ‘Smart City’ plans based on San Francisco’s Metropolitan Model.
The Minister during his tour of the United States in San Francisco had met the senior officers of San Francisco’s Metropolitan Transport Commission, officials stated.
He had stated that for building the Traffic related infrastructure in Chhattisgarh’s cities, it should be kept in mind to develop better facilities using less number of resources.
Agrawal had also expressed the desire of transforming the Urban Traffic Committees formed by Chhattisgarh Urban Administration and Development Department into independent and self governing institutions on the lines of San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transport Authority.
He had stated that Chhattisgarh would develop similar traffic management systems as existing in San Francisco.
The Minister had also informed that the New York city officials in the United States involved in urban infrastructure management tasks have evinced keen interest in taking up a series of training programmes on road safety measures and street design initiatives in Chhattisgarh’s cities, officials stated.
The officials in New York city provided in-principle consent for implementing these measures in cities of Chhattisgarh, officials said.
Chhattisgarh is to adopt the US model of developing dedicated Public Transport corridors in its cities, the Minister had stated.
The development of a highly evolved Public Transport System with dedicated corridors will begin from the road connecting Swami Vivekananda Airport to Raipur city, Chhattisgarh’s Urban Administration and Development Minister Amar Agarwal had stated.
He had also told officials of Southern California Association of Governments in los Angeles in a meeting that the project would have dedicated corridors for pedestrians, cyclists, two-wheeler users, cars and buses.