The 'Nano' has arrived but the million dollar question remains whether the road conditions and traffic situation would allow a flurry of these small cars in the cities and town in Uttar Pradesh.

The state, one of the most densely populated in the country, has traffic already bursting at the seams due to poor road conditions and lack of traffic sense among the people. It is bound to get worse with increasing dependence on personal means of transport in the absence of an efficient public transport system, according to experts.

The state already has about ten million vehicles on the roads, normally registering a ten per cent increase every year. The total number of vehicles include about seven million two-wheelers.

The state capital Lucknow alone has about one million vehicles including 116,000 cars and more than 700,000 two-wheelers. A cursory look at the traffic situation in major cities including Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Agra, Meerut, Bareilly and Gorakhpur and some random surveys in other towns showed that the average speed of the vehicles was only about 20 km per hour, Mr Raman Luthra, associated with the auto sector for the past 25 years, said.

The urban roads are in real bad shape in almost all the towns of the state barring the state capital and Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi.