The document discusses initiatives for transportation in Indian cities, specifically Unified Metropolitan Transport Authorities (UMTAs). It makes three key points: 1) UMTAs aim to harmonize different transportation modes in cities that developed piecemeal over time, but they struggle due to different origins of agency powers. 2) Internal agreement within UMTAs on overall transportation policy, even if allowing some flexibility, would be an important achievement in unifying networks. 3) If successful, UMTAs could become major innovators and drivers of unified action at the metropolitan level.