TOD and Mumbai
Last year in March, I was asked about resources on how to develop a TOD policy for Mumbai by a local planner via Linkedin. The following was my response on how Mumbai could approach developing a TOD policy. Fellow Planner, TOD is a primarily a North American urban development strategy, to try and shift travel away from cars to mass transit through changing land use policy and urban design. This was necessitated because of the huge dependence on cars by North Americans brought on by low density sprawl. There are places here that one has drive to buy a small pouch of milk. Mumbai clearly doesn't has that problem. Mumbai is probably the most transit rich cities of India, with a geography clearly suited for efficient transit networks (being a narrow peninsula similar to Manhattan). What Mumbai has is a problem of Transit capacity; Access to Transit; and A lack of multi-modal mobility. With the new metro/ monorail etc coming up in Mumbai, the capacity aspects are being address