Referring to the Supreme Court opinion on the scope of judicial review in policy matters, the Delhi Government has urged the Delhi High Court to refrain from interfering with the BRT corridor issue. In an affidavit filed through R. P. Meena, Additional Commissioner of the Transport Department, urging the Court to maintain the sanctity of the BRT corridor, the Government said: “Maintain sanctity of the BRT corridor because if any other vehicles are allowed in BRT corridor, no bus will be able to reach designated platform for proper embarkation and disembarkation of passenger.” The courts ought not to act as if they are an appellate authority examining the correctness, suitability and appropriateness of a policy, the affidavit said alluding to the Apex Court opinion on the judicial review in policy matters. The Government filed the affidavit in reply to a report by the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) recommending mixed traffic on the dedicated corridor for buses after conducting an experiment of allowing vehicles other than buses to ply on this stretch on a direction by the Court on a public interest litigation seeking a direction to end the exclusivity of buses on the corridor. The Government also brought in the argument of giving fillip to public transport over private vehicles to defend the BRT corridor, submitting that “the debate is not just about BRT, the debate is about improving alternatives to cars to meet environmental and social goals.” “The anger and arrogance of car owners may not be permitted to wipe out the fragile protection of common good,” the affidavit stated. The affidavit further said that any wrong step in Delhi might jeopardise the entire policy as the BRT corridor had been sanctioned for the whole country under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission of the Union Ministry for Urban Development, not for Delhi alone. The affidavit also questioned the expertise of the CRRI to conduct the trial run of mixed traffic on the corridor and said that “although this court deemed it appropriate to seek the expert advice of Central Road Research Institute, it is submitted that CRRI is neither an expert agency for traffic management nor does it have any expertise in designing public transport system.”