The institute's report clearly states: "The no-BRT option yields better benefits for this corridor" and adds, "The trial run scenario would reduce the total travel time and stopped delay in the year 2015 by 39% and 48% respectively." CRRI said letting other vehicles use the lane reserved for buses yielded "benefits for all the road users compared to BRT situation."
The study showed that the BRT had not only increased travel time but also the frequency of accidents. Above all, CRRI found out that the then government's most important reason for continuing with the corridor-that it served a large number of people travelling by bus-was not supported by facts. The report said buses tended to clump together in the corridor as the routes had not been rationalized, and only 4-5 passengers boarded or alighted per bus. This, the report said, "is obviously boosting the passengers per-hour-per-direction drastically and thus presenting an exaggerated figure."
The CRRI report also rubbished claims that the BRT has reduced the number of fatal and serious injuries or crashes on the stretch. Using police records, it showed that fatal road accidents had increased by 40% and the number of deaths by 48% after the BRT became operational. "At the same time, the number of simple/injurious road crashes reported by the traffic police has registered an increase of 7%," the report said.
The study showed fuel consumption on the stretch had increased significantly. Idling at intersections led to losses of 78-139ml for every petrol car, and 72-217ml for diesel cars through the day. The fuel loss ranged from 2% to 45%, said the report and the maximum wastage was on the stretch between Sheikh Sarai and Chirag Delhi, where it ranged from 17% to 41% through the day. The time wasted in idling ranged from 37% to 60% of the journey time, which amounted to many thousands of man-hours every day.
"The evaluation of passenger hours in terms of monetary values shows that there is a loss of Rs 87.91 crore in a year during normal BRT operation compared with the experimental run," the report stated. The total number of vehicle-hours saved during the experimental run-when the BRT was used as a normal road-was around 8,183 on a weekday and 4,366 on weekends for the 16-hour study duration, said the report.
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