Jostling for space: 432 cars per km of Kolkata road
The number of cars in Kolkata has touched 8 lakh, taking the car density to 432 per km of road in the city. The total road length in Kolkata is 1,850km. If all light motor vehicles (LMVs) were hatchbacks and queued up bumper-to-bumper, they would have to bump each other out as the equation translates to 1.6km of cars per km of road. Now throw in larger sedans and SUVs and the space crunch becomes more acute.