Better late than never

Let all the residents make the best use of the city's public transport/Metro trains at least for four days a month

With reference to the Chinese Whispers item titled “Band-aid for traffic mess” (December 15), it was nice to learn that the Karnataka government seems to have finally woken up to the traffic woes of commuters in Bengaluru, a city which has one of the highest vehicle densities in India. However, its reported action plan to experiment with no private vehicles one day a month starting February 2018 could be akin to serving some half-baked food to one who may be hungry for weeks. No wonder then that such a one-off idea of the state government to resolve the city’s long-pending