Cricketer wants a cap of 10,000 honks to a car to keep decibels down.
Sachin Tendulkar has a cure-all for our ‘Horn OK Please’ conundrum: allot every car in Mumbai just 10,000 honks. Once this cap is reached, the driver will have to buy a new horn from the government, thus, making him/her think twice before honking repeatedly.
This regulation would instantly tackle the problem of noise pollution on the streets.
The suggestion is a nugget from 100 Urban Trends: A Glossary of Ideas, released by BMW Guggenheim’s Mumbai Lab, a mobile urban laboratory centred around the topic of life in cities, on Wednesday. The glossary is a part of a series released by BMW Guggenheim Labs’ in New York, Berlin and Mumbai, which identifies the trends and ideas discussed at the three venues.
The interdisciplinary mobile labs were born out of a collaboration between the BMW group and the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation and aim at visiting nine cities over six years.
The first cycle, which ran along the theme of Confronting Comfort, saw citizens taking an interest in making their urban environment more conducive and responsive to their needs.
Innovative solutions for challenges which many urban cities face were bandied about at the labs.
The Mumbai lab ran from December 9, 2012 to January 20 this year on the grounds of the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Byculla, with additional satellites.
Here’s where Tendulkar and several others came up with ideas to change the rules of the game. Another suggestion that stood out was retrofitting transportation, sewage, water and electricity infrastructure, instead of redesigning it from scratch.
How can such glossaries help? “These are meant to take forward the conversations which began at the labs, as well as spark analyses and comparisons of the three cities. Integral to these glossaries is the concept of cities as idea hubs and how their lab has captured some prevailing thoughts,” reasons Richard Armstrong, director of Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and Foundation.
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