Good News & Bad News Clearing the Air in Indian Cities

01 March, 2014

Anumita Roychowdhury

Centre for Science and Environment, 262 pages, Rs 750

Only 10 to 15 percent of India commutes by car, yet private cars take up 90 percent of existing road space, causing traffic jams and increasing air pollution. The only way out is to reinvent our mobility systems. This book presents existing policy decisions that promote clean air, public transport, walking and cycling, and also car restraint initiatives such as parking restrictions. The challenge now, the author argues, is to learn from existing efforts and to scale up successful practices so that we can leapfrog from cars to no cars, from pollution to clean air.