KOLKATA: Data for the study on vehicular density came from two sources: the vehicular count from the state transport department till December 31, 2021; car count across cities — and vehicular density calculation — from data sourced by Kolkata Police from the police of those cities.
The majority of Kolkata’s 1,850km-long total road length is two-laned. Experts said the city needed six-lane roads to accommodate the current volume of vehicles. Kolkata currently has no six-lane road. A few stretches — E M Bypass, Red Road-Kidderpore Road and stretches of J L Nehru Road-SP Mukherjee Road — are four-lane. “Thus, most roads in the city have exceeded saturation level,” said an officer of the Bengal Traffic-Transportation Planning Directorate.
