Public Transport

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The Land Transport Authority (LTA) designs, develops and builds Singapore’s land transport and infrastructure systems to create a people-centric transportation network. In fact, due to the high costs of long-commuting, most of the working class prefers living within walking distance to their workplace. Currently, most Indian cities like Mumbai, Chennai, and Delhi have isolated authorities for different modes of public transport like buses and the metro. In most Indian cities, the working class – which makes up the majority of the population – walks to work. Further, the municipal budget can be decentralised to the neighbourhood-level where the citizens’ needs are prioritised and the people are directly involved through all stages of the planning process. Instead of developing long-term, large-scale land-use plans for cities and towns, it is crucial for planners to develop incremental short-term neighbourhood-level plans that encourage the idea of such 15-minute cities within larger cities.