[rahulnair23]

Yes, Corbusier's vision of cities was tied to speed, and by consequence, to cars.

But Chandigarh today has fantastic segregated bike infrastructure! No other Indian city comes close. The city itself is pan-flat and relatively small (shaped as a rectangle where the longer side is 10 kilometers).

Cycle the routes and you see the vast array of tradesman, workers, maids, and vegetable vendors travel by cycle. Big apartment complexes will have bike stands full of pink bicycles that the maids would use.

Granted the city has far too many cars, but the article doesn't adequately reflect the town and all its people.

[saiya-jin]

Man, I recall in good old 2008, arriving into Chandigarh after almost month of backpacking in rest of India. What a shock it was! Straight roads in mesh, traffic lights everywhere. It looked and felt so surreal, detached from rest of Indian subcontinent which felt to me to be in some very distant parallel universe.

[mercutio2]

I was there in 2006, but I started my journey recovering from jet lag there, and I kept thinking "this seems very different from what I expected India to be like". My traveling companion explained it is in fact completely different from most of India (and so I found in the rest of my visit).