Night Drive: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l-UZcf8ynAU.htmlsi=eN_CEMi6pyiN3zGw 00:23 video starts 02:11 entering BKC's G-Block 04:09 NSE Building 05:25 Metro Line-2B u/c 08:37 Nita Mukesh Ambani Junior School 09:41 Dhirubhai Ambani Square 10:03 Jio World Plaza 10:41 ONGC Building (better view at 14:33) 13:02 The Capital BKC (side view at 20:05) 13:37 One BKC 16:36 Trident Hotel 17:00 Sofitel Hotel 18:39 Jio World Centre 23:05 Bharat Diamond Bourse
@@KingLuffy_17 correct. Just proper lane marking, wider sidewalks, less 2 wheelers, will greatly solve this problem. Thin sidewalks cause people to walk on the road and cause confusion. We only need to separate pedestrians from vehicles and also vehicles from amongst themselves by proper lane marking.
@@KingLuffy_17 Footpath pe dehati aakr business krenge taki koi jagah rent or na lena pade paise Bach Jaye, gandagi failayenge or horn bajayenge, fir ramndirona denge sarkar ne kuch nhi kiya.
Also India is currently planning new cities like Amaravathi, KWIN and NAINA, which we should all be supporting and excited about. Current cities can't really be changed all too much.
@@heliothrax7716 Chinese government can easily remove buildinfs to make way for wider roads, footpaths, they could easily demolish slums, encourchements and other old areas to make way for planned residential and commercial developments. Places like East Bengaluru, Pune, East Hyderabad etc do not even have a proper grid network and they never will unless they do a Chinese style redevelopment scheme or a Gujarat style TP scheme (which could take decades). Much of Delhi and Kolkata and much of the Gangetic plains is made up of ugly middle-class ghettos (which cant be as easily redeveloped as single storey slums for poorer class) with 5-storey houses and narrow roads. In India, Chinese style redevelopments are very slow and rare and due to resistance from 'nimbys', activitsts and politicians, its all happening at a slower pace.
@@heliothrax7716 Although some parts of Ahmedabad (like slums near Sabarmati), parts of Delhi and even Mumbai (bendhi bazaar, bdd chawls) are witnessing such chinese style redevelopment, more needs to be done. In particular, unless voters make it their priority for there to be planned grid roads, good waste disposal system, pristine footpaths with no encroachments, then politicians wont care either. currently, india is dominated by uneducated rural voters who dont care about urban infrastructure, they only care about freebies, identity politics etc.
I'm happy to see that many people in the comment section know the difference between good and World class. I hope more people could watch the videos of China or even philippines before comparing India's rubbish cities with Shanghai or Manilla. The dirt in the middle of the road or slums in patches are such a sad sight. Even the colours that are painted along the road are so dull, as if nobody cares about aesthetics. Nobody will invest in your country if you can't even maintain one city that is supposed to be your financial capital.
Finally someone with the same thoughts as me We can become friends😅 Yes even the kids can choose good color scheme than these zebra patter And brother did u see that mthl bridge they painted it with shitty blue shade and to top it off with black and yellow strips on dividers Chinese cities like shenzen has beautiful grey concrete tiles exactly floored with the road level and highly maintened green grass in the middle and high quality machines to clean dust from the road surface,and good looking trees
@@ShubhamPednekarYt Shenzhen is the future. Best city of the world. India can't even compete with some random south east Asian city, let alone Shenzhen. Chinese take a lot of inspiration from Tokyo and western cities. Indians can't even copy. At least try to copy and replicate but no. We don't do that here.
Looks nice overall. Remarkably clean bike lanes and footpaths at most places. I am surprised at lane discipline amongst motorists in most roads, which is not commonly seen in Indian cities (got disrupted only around autos). Now with the coastal road also, Mumbai is giving competition to Delhi, which always had wider, green-lined roads.
All the people comparing Mumbai to Chinese cities, just stop. Chinese cities are much newer and were built with a vision in mind. Indian cities are far older and experienced unplanned growth. It can't be changed. Instead we should focus on what we can control. We can make our cities AT LEAST like Colombo and Male, which are very livable in comparison.
@@SeshiAthukam true. Indians are just lacking in common civic sense, mostly. I'm an Indian, and I'm just tired of having to yell at adults to stop littering (I'm 17 so not really taken seriously)
@@nerrailwaygorakhpur7173read the comment again He also used the term experienced he is talking about land art implemented in india 1950 which made indian cities like this well that act is removed in 1991
Mumbai is old? Chinese cities like Beijing, Xian and Nanjing are far older. Now, look at the infra in those cities. All these excuses are essentially ways to cope.
India’s idea of CBD itself is flawed. The actual CBDs are not a series of individual wall covered campuses owned by huge mnc reserved for their employees,they are mixed use consumption driven city centres with pedestrians access in greater focus than vehicles.
India's idea of a CBD is like an industrial area. Just like factories are walled off, these offices are walled off. IT parks have the same problem across India. The only place in India that is looking beyond this is Gift City as its based on boundary-less buildings
@@dwarasamudra8889 exactly! These are white collar factories which have a massive economy but have actually nothing to do with actual city life! A finished & maintained version of this wall covered concept can be seen in Jakarta, which is again poorly designed city. Compare it with various city centers of Manila especially BGC, those are way too good!!!
@@harshpatel4158 yes, entire south east asia seems to have learnt how to build good boundary-less CBDs. Hanoi, Ho-chi minh, Pnom penh are doing well too. Jakarta's might be walled-off too but their CBD is still more accessible and better integrated than BKC, also more visually impressive. However, as India grows to their GDP per capita level and politics becomes more urban oriented as opposed to the current rural politics, Indian cities will probably start to look better. Places like Gift City, Delhi Aerocity etc will probably replicated across the country over the next few decades.
@@harshpatel4158 However, in terms of how things are maintained, then places like Gurugram Cybercity and IT parks like Manyata are way better than BKC. BKC only recently got new footpaths and landscaping but it all looks rather battered so soon. In comparison, although Manyata is not accessible to the public and has little street-activity like shops or cafes, it has pristine roads, footpaths and greenery landscaping. Although it got flooded a few days back, it was cleaned up very quickly in only a few hours
@@sabhrestman6644 china's is higher then world average and country's like Mexico and Georgia. For there standards it's impressive that they have cities like that .
India has the potential to look like this. Why cannot our government standardize this as the standard for our country? Why do only areas with big commercial companies have to look like this? Does the common public not deserve this too?
Becoz common public don't mind the piles of trash on the ground either, they don't care whether footpaths exists or not, are ok with shopkeepers and hawkers occupying walking spaces, are ok with not paying maintainence in the flats they live and themselves park vehicles as they please while littering and spitting gutka on the roads. And our urban planning is the worst in the world with a mix of ugly Soviet blocks, village romanticisation houses, poor maintenance, corrupt babus and dehati public. Warn torn middle eastern nations look better than our cities
@@SimHustler well it's the reality. There are countries as poor as india in per capita like Uzbekistan (2000-3000$ range) yet have much better infrastructure.
It will take 30 years for Mumbai to reach the level of Shenzhen or Shanghai. I've posted a video of comparing both Mumbai and Shenzhen and the contrast is HUGE. It's sad that nobody cares about infrastructural aesthetics in India.
I will highly recommended sone gurugram videos and aerocity videos of delhi and salt lake sector v, sector ii(2) and broadway road videos of Kolkata for damage control.
All new buildings. And very good architecture and aesthetics. But downside is the condition of roads , the people's attitude in respecting pedestrians and traffic rules. Was this taken on a Sunday? Very low traffic. Also pedestrians also should respect traffic rules. Only then can everyone enjoy the infrastructure
One of the major challenges with Mumbai metro area is its low GDP of just $150 billion. It needs to double quickly. It is losing ground to other metro areas like Bengaluru, Hyderabad that are $100-120 billion gdp and fast becoming richer than Mumbai’s. Pune metro area also is around $70-80 billion now and growing at 2x Mumbai metro area rate. If you look at new investments pouring in, it is mostly in Pune metro area. Mumbai needs to figure out a way to grow into a global city.
That means the 400-450 billion USD that figure has shown is the gdp of Mumbai metropolitan region??? Forget about Mumbai than delhi and Kolkata will take on Mumbai someday.
@@soumyadeepchowdhury3585 Entire Maharashtra is $450 billion gdp. Mumbai metro area contributes 30% of that. Pune metro area contributes 10%. Hyderabad and Bengaluru metro areas are growing rapidly and chances are that they will catch up and even beat Mumbai metro area soon. Mumbai metro area GDP growth is underperforming. Pune metro area is growing much faster than Mumbai as most manufacturers and tech firms go there. Mumbai metro GDP cannot increase rapidly without a lot of manufacturing and tech jobs. Tier 2 cities in China have more gdp than Mumbai metro area. That is a thing that should be insulting for Mumbai, but no one seems to care.
@@backpropagation8365 Its sad if Mumbai metro area figure is that but you are brainwashed by some media agency and youtube figures. Delhi, Kolkata has best infra in the country. Many times they had seen in negative way becasue of political reasons. delhi have projects like 1) dwaraka expy(to ease delhi-gurugram expy traffic) 2)barapullah area bridge( huge growth for sarai kalekha) 3)punjabi bagh flyover( massive work on delhi outer ring road is going) 4)UER kolkata have projects 1) Kalyani expressway expension is almost completed and kalyani expy, belghoria exy connector flyover work goes full swing 2)the connector corridor between durgapur expy(nh-19) and nh-12 near borojaguli goes on full swing. kalyani expy to borojaguli part is complete 3)dankuni area nh-19 goes for massive upgrade and expension that will ease traffic and help for industries , logistics there 4) Barasat- New Town Highway work goes on full swing, that will release the traffic pressure from VIP road 5)Captain bheri to mahisbathan new town direct flyover corridorwork is starting soon once it completed it will be huge relief for EM Bypass traffic there are many more , i am writing these becasue you talk like work is happening in only some areas...
@@ProCricketBatsman I doubt. Go through his other replies on this video. He believes indian cities are better than Chinese ones. Delhi and Mumbai look like slums compared to Shenzhen and Shanghai.
First I say sorry for my words if anyone gets offended. I am not shoked why most of mumbikars interested in forign culture because with that type of infra they could think like that. This Mumbai is alive only with indirectly central funds . Imagine after some new interchanges of coastal road they started dancing, while delhi' dhala kuan and Kolkata have far more complicated and we'll planned interchanges( nabbanna interchange which was made in 90s) than that.
8:46 Look at the "School Ahead" road sign in the top left. That sign is valid in USA and not in India (Our signs are triangular with red border for caution). It's just another example of mediocrity, which plagues this country.
Not up to standard not impressed enough, cleanliness can still be better, infrastructure in some parts of the video can improve, dividers etc, don’t compare with China focus on Mumbai
Bet you've never heard of walkthrough or drive through genre of RU-vid. Just search it, there are an hour to multiple hours long videos of cities, explored through walking or driving by car.
bkc only looks good..but it’s worst in terms of public transportation. nariman point anyday would be better than bkc. i hope BEST introduces more buses on bkc route!!
Good video Anuj. But BKC looks like a dead place, as if only made for the rich and famous. All big company office hugh buildings seen, but not too many people, on the streets. And if there are so many big companies, wonder were are all the jobs for common people has gone. Also no khau gali seen, no chai ki tapri, and also no bustling resturants seen. So where does the common man go to eat in BKC, the common cheaper food of mumbai. No BEST buses seen, though could see autos and taxis, and that would also be expensive for a common working person. Looks like the BKC has only been developed for the wealthy and industralist people who can afford this luxury.
poor people can become rich after working here, people have big pockets here, they spend lavishly, as they should, because spending lavishly gives other people employment, whole India is a khau gali, if there is one decent spot in this country, you also want that to become like Khau Gali? no wonder India remains to be a laughing stock globally, because slum-loving jokers are always ready open their circus in private properties of others and build their poop-cavity to rot there like labrats, BKC is a miniscule spot in this country, why every dot on the map be flooded with mediocrity, Hard-working people deserve more in the society, than a lazy bum who day-dreams, BKC is for hard-working industrialist who provide jobs for people, not for complainers who think medievel manual labour is "hard-work", the farm-based economy is long gone, so keep your lips sealed commie and don't be jealous of others.
Most of the buildings are world class. And they are mostly fully occupied and offer some of the best jobs in the city. So these are NOT empty buildings. But, sadly, the road quality leaves much to be desired - as already pointed out by others. Also, there are too many arbitrary road blocks - very unplanned and chaotic. Maybe things will be a bit better when the metro line and high speed train line are completed. I am surprised no one has mentioned the root cause of the problem. The utterly self-centered and clueless political leadership that ran the country after 1947. Did everything to destroy growth. Few people know how in the 1950s, the Indian economy was actually ahead of most ASEAN nations. The License Raj and the socialistic nationalization of all banks destroyed so many viable and emerging businesses. Only the Congress cronies survived. One of the first Asian tigers was reduced to a tortoise. Indian banks were expanding across Asia and Africa, Our largest banks (before nationalization) were some of the best run in Asia before they were taken over by you know who. Industrial investment was averaging 18% annual growth and fairly well spread across much of the country before the Congress nationalized everything and put in debilitating state controls. Even agricultural investment was at 10%. There was an amazing spirit of genuine patriotism and earnest optimism that held the imagination of the country back then. By the mid 70s and 80s, it was all gone. When growth in India had slowed to a crawl, the ASEAN nations began seeing explosive growth. India actually had better intellectual resources and a stronger scientific and engineering foundation. It was all wasted or strangulated by idiotic, corrupt and myopic babudom. And now we can't get rid of it. Truth is father and daughter were both economic criminals. We are still playing a heavy price. Sections of our private sector are now thriving (and approaching world class in some respects) but the municipal government sector is yet to be liberated from the decades of "satyanaas". The national government is at least trying hard. But at the local level, it is still quite a mess. And there are saboteurs everywhere to make things worse.
I should clarify. There were decent, intelligent and patriotic people in the Congress. But the dynasty more or less hounded out the best. People like Kamaraj, Sanjiva Reddy or Morarji Desai were actually more intelligent, but they got very bad press. And Shastri was murdered in Tashkent by the KGB who wanted a pliable socialist idiot - you know who - in power.
yea only if we aligned more with the USA and west back in those times. Grateful for USSR/Russian help during the early wars when the world turned their back on us, but their economic style copied by the INC leaders ruined the economy until it was liberalized in the 90s. But by then China had already beaten us in a game where we had a head-start. British left us in shambles but we had the resources and manpower to become the largest manufacturing and service industry focused country in history rivaling not China but the US. But here we are....hopefully the current party and future leaders are actually patriotic and want to fix the nation without further dividing it.
@@jithinthomas719 Actually, Eisenhower offered Nehru a Marshall Plan to recover from colonization and a seat on the UN Security Council. Nehru rejected the offer and chose the Soviets and China. It was only later that all the goodwill towards India vanished. US did not drive India away. Nehru drove the US away.
@@shishirthadani1696 Nehru had this weird obsession with the USSR. My god how different would we have been with American economic structure and a free market economy. Makes my blood boil
Can't government maintain good markings in roads instead of that zigzag shit they are doing And standardized roads Like the quality is changing every few meters he is travelling. I expect better from the business district of financial capital of India. And someone ban this auto yaar. Why can't taxi run all over Mumbai...
4:24 police van is literally blocking the sidewalk for pedestrians. If even police are blocking then I have no hope that Mumbai will ever become a walkable city. I also hate that ugly zebra painting on EVERY divider. It does nothing, no developed country has this. Just lane markings are enough!
I dont when this zebra pattern obsession will end And when we will start cleaning the road with water and replace this ugly foothoaths with modern concreate like tiles 😅
this nuisance 🛺 shud be ban from this area. Doesn't suits the elegancy...also this cheknaka barricades they just leave it like that during day time is laziness from officials
Bright and colourful day with excellent camera work, at some places. Thanks to PM Modi, the city, deprived of infra projects, is now on its way to be a vibrant metropolis. Thanks to those crooks, the city wasted over 50 years of literally no care or work. Sorry but what I didn't like was your driving, that looked rash and unnecessary speeding at several places, especially when you didn't seem to stop for construction workers crossing. They stopped knowing you won't ! Thanks
