It’s no accident that a BEST bus barrelled through pedestrians and vehicles on a busy Mumbai street
As the city’s mass public transport decays, mega infrastructure projects that have disrupted traffic are focused on cars and the affluent class.
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The toll in the Kurla bus crash in Mumbai on Monday has now climbed to seven. At least 42 people were injured, many of them critically, after a BEST bus plying on Route 332 ploughed through vehicles and pedestrians on the busy road.
The bus had barrelled on for several hundred metres after it first hit a vehicle, stopping only when it rammed into the wall of a housing complex, say reports. The driver has reportedly said that he was unfamiliar with the vehicle’s automatic system. Nonetheless, the police have taken him into custody to ascertain if he was adequately trained to drive heavy commercial vehicles or was intoxicated.
Even though the reasons for the bus driver’s actions are not immediately certain, the factors that contributed to the large number of fatalities are evident to anyone who uses Mumbai’s chaotic streets.
The 332, connecting Kurla and Andheri stations, is one of Mumbai’s busiest, congested routes. For instance, the leg between Kurla station and Sakinaka is under 5 km but takes an average of 25 minutes – even out of peak hours. 
This is not a problem just in this part of the city.
Mumbai’s arterial roads resemble large, contiguous construction sites. Mega-infrastructure initiatives, such...
