Most people own cars as its considered a neccesity today. What If I need to rush from A to B and have no time to wait? This could be a medical emergency or due to one's professional requirements or so many other situations. I don't know why this is being asked, but if the idea is to encourage usage of public transport, a more pertinent question to ask would be "Would you be willing to use the Public Transport for your routine commutes as long as decent options exist".

Why car in an emergency? It will delay your commute from point A to B. 2 wheelers are much faster in high density cities like Bangalore. People may say it is not so safe, but, today, Bangalore's traffic doesn't move much faster than 40 km/hr. Amount of fuel wasted is too much. If it is raining or with family, and if you own a car it is OK.

This is how a normal Bangalorean still commutes in emergency. If really a four wheeler is needed like taking a baby outside or aged, they go in auto. 15% of Bangalore uses 2 wheeler and only 4% is cars. This 4% class of people are dominant class of the society and urge the government to develop infrastructure for driving their cars.

It is the pseudo feeling of the upper class that without car they cannot live!!.   

The point B doesn't neccesarily have to be within Bangalore city limits. What if its in Mysore? Its still faster to use a 2 wheeler? Autos are obviously out of the question. This isn't about asking goverment to develop infrastructre for a particular section of society and I'm all for using public transport for most routine activities. But owning a car so that its there in cases of emergency or the family picnic / outing is a requirement / lifestyle choice that should be available to all.

aagrawal makes a very valid point. If as per my dream, TATA's or TVS start providing public bus transport services, I'll reduce car usage to less than 25% of my present usage level, and may be even lesser eventually. Between us family members, we may even decide to sell off the 2nd car.

Muralidhar Rao

vikash, welcome back. In this poll the TINA bucket is very large. I travel to work, to run errands, to socialize and for leisure and so on. Each of these are mostly mutually exclusive. All these trips have different travel demands. One reason to buy a car is so that socializing and leisure activities can be done with the entire family and perhaps in style and comfort. But for atleast 5 days a week, the car which is now available is to put to work. TINA - family cannot move around together. But most miles logged on transit to work. I dont have stats but i wouldn't be surprised if there was a good chunk of cars that were put to use thus. BTW, I voted TINA. becoz i really dont have an alternative. :)