{"id":27258,"date":"2016-11-15T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T12:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=27258"},"modified":"2016-11-15T18:24:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T12:54:42","slug":"can-new-yorks-56-year-old-bus-terminal-help-trivandrums-east-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/can-new-yorks-56-year-old-bus-terminal-help-trivandrums-east-fort\/","title":{"rendered":"Can New York’s 56-Year old Bus Terminal Help Trivandrum’s East Fort?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Collector of Trivandrum Biju Prabhakar happened to see the Port Authority Bus station at New York’s 42nd Street which can handle 800 buses at a time. Based on the New York’s bus terminal, ‘City Kaumudi’ recently published a similar development model for our East Fort.<\/p>\n

If it is implemented here at East Fort the advantages to the city and the commuters are many. \u00a0Here are some of the advantages listed by ‘City Kaumudi’ if their design was implemented.<\/p>\n

For starters, the proposed model will enhance the beauty and the heritage \u2018old-world charm\u2019 of East Fort to a great extent. It will also expand the beautiful Gandhi Park to 1.13 acre from the current 75 cents. This way more people can enjoy the park and \u00a0green cover can be increased.<\/p>\n

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Graphics: Ani Gopakumar for City Kaumudi<\/p><\/div>\n

That\u2019s not all, authorities can also set up a Bus terminal cum shopping complex with a 1500sq.ft of retail space for commercial activities. At a time, around 60 buses can depart and arrive at the Terminal. As per the model, this complex will have the capacity to park 325 cars and 900 two wheelers. At present parking space at East Fort is a luxury.<\/p>\n

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Roof Top Car Parking at NYC Port Authority Bus Terminal, 1960<\/p><\/div>\n

Plus an underpass or a skywalk can be constructed in the area for devotees and commuters to safely cross the roads without having the worry of getting hit by vehicles. \u00a0The skywalk can be extended and become a network connecting nearby places like Thampanoor, Chalai, Pazhavangadi etc. Mumbai has a lot of beautiful skywalks connecting shot distances.<\/p>\n

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A Skywalk in Mumbai, Image for Representation Purpose only<\/p><\/div>\n

Coming back to New York, the Port Authority Bus Terminal was constructed during 1960, 56 years ago. But even back then, they had one thing we still don\u2019t have – ‘Farsightedness’. They anticipated city’s growth and made the terminal to handle the traffic of the future. Unfortunately, our authorities here are only looking for short-term solutions.<\/p>\n

Coming back to New York, the Port Authority Bus Terminal was constructed during the 1960, 56 years ago. But even back then, they had one thing we still don\u2019t have – ‘Farsightedness’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we design our Trivandrum with enough thought, and imagination it will be the most beautiful city in the country- a combination of the best of old and new.<\/p>\n

*Source:<\/strong><\/em> Report by Sreekumar Pallilethu for City Kaumudi<\/p>\n

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Former Collector of Trivandrum Biju Prabhakar happened to see the Port Authority Bus station at New York’s 42nd Street which can handle 800 buses at a time. Based on the New York’s bus terminal, ‘City Kaumudi’ recently published a similar development model for our East Fort. If it is implemented here at East Fort the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,1],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-27258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","category-uncategorized","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27258"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27269,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27258\/revisions\/27269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}