tetrislife

He he. Have you lived there? They started limiting permits for new cars to the number of old cars taken off the road, for example. And they are small enough to have very good public transport. And centtalized enough to control all aspects and plan cohesively.

Do you know of any large region that has done it nearly as well? What is that region's per-capita income and its population density?

This is classic third-worldliness porn.

lot were low-income folk

The economic strata that is the majority of the population, is also the majority in hospitalization? Is there a useful point there?

refused to accept them due to over-crowding

Oxymoron right there.

And, if this was the scene in a Western nation, you would have used the correct word: "full", instead of the motivated "overcrowding".

How much more crass can you be at this? People close to me watched people die in queues outside hospitals, as they too waited with their F&F. Hospitals weren't "overcrowded", hospitals and staff were overwhelmed.

I'd like to know how you'd have done better. You can't conjure up oxygen or great management in the disaster that it was.

I don't see it. A roundabout would eat into space vehicles need. And roads were laid in and around land already owned by people, so it wouldn't have been a clean slate.

Traffic only flows 3 ways: bus goes on straight, bus turns left, and traffic from that road on its left goes straight. The cyclist should have come on the other side below the elevated road, and turned under it to reach this intersection.

he he, the Taj Mahal? That structure built by a king from an invading dynasty, after which he had the artisans' hands cut off? Much like what the British later threatened to do to weavers and healers and fighters who didn't toe their line?

Irrelevant, don't you think?

Everything else remaining the same, you may be wrong. Here, there is no danger at the speeds Indian traffic moves at, that was a sped-up time-lapse. The cyclist was on the wrong side of the road.

I don't know about Hong Kong - more than absolute space, what is the population density - but I imagine control over all the aspects makes for parts that fit better together. Over here, there may be a case for smaller roads planned better, mini buses instead of buses, etc. But the buses already exist. The land is already owned by somebody before they laid down roads. Designed around all that, it isn't that bad.

We have so much infrastructure at the per-capita income levels as they are of a billion people. This isn't something to fret over.

India isn't a continent-sized country emptied of its native inhabitants, so there is much less space to design anything neatly.