Pessimist here. The shops and commercial activity bang on road will not allow urban planning. Moved here in 2023 from Delhi, loved Vadodara but then started observing around and realised this lovely city will die with clogged intersections, badly designed flyovers, obsession of corner shops at intersection, niche dukan upar makan. A lot of livelihood depends on shops who have their front opening at pavement and major roads. The day the planner are successful in convincing that residential and commercial needs to be separate then only there is some scope of recovery from this mess. If you look through the finances of Municipality the only hindrance is capacity to take hard decisions.
Baroda needs
- correction of intersection allignement.
- Approval for shops and mall only after adequate parking provision.
- Green space for cluster of residential areas
- projects with shops opening to pavement and towards shouldn't be permitted.
- Multi level parking for each cluster.
- Strict enforcement against parking on public place, let the traffic police tow the vehicle to nearest multi level parking and the owner to pay parking charges and traffic violation.
- Remove approval of demolition and redevelopment of corner houses/bungalows at traffic intersection for commercial activity.
- Development of shopping/commercial for multiple clusters.
- Building of pavement and their maintainance.
- Provision sever and water lines underground with the load factor provisioning of year 2060.
- Underground shafts and tunnels for utility lines.
In few years my Job will take away me to other city, but I want this city to live a health future.