India to build access-controlled ring roads, bypasses to curb urban congestion

Devayan Dey, partner – capital projects and infrastructure at PwC India, said the policy was well-meaning but stressed the need for city-specific transport planning before major investments. “More often than not, congestion is less of a transport planning problem and more of an urban planning problem,” he said, noting that bypasses may have limited impact where congestion primarily arises from the interaction between production and consumption centres within cities.