Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Mandakini Gahlot New Delhi, July 27 The number of vehicles on the Capital's roads has been growing at a fast pace. And now this growth is expected to speed up further. Newsline looks at some figures * The two decades between 1981 and 2001 have seen a phenomenal increase in the growth of vehicles and traffic in Delhi. The number of motor vehicles has increased from 5.13 lakh in 1981 to 32.38 lakh in 2001. The number of buses in the same period has increased from 8,600 to 41,483
A consortium led by Maytas Infra Ltd, a real estate infrastructure company promoted by Satyam Computer owners, has bagged the country's first urban transit project on public private partnership (PPP) mode by quoting a negative grant to the Andhra Pradesh government.
Mumbai, July 24 Even as the construction of first metro rail between Versova and Ghatkopar via Andheri is under way, the displaced shop owners and tenants at the J P Road in Andheri are still breathing nervously due to the "vagueness' on their rehabilitation.
Mumbai, July 24 Mumbai's satellite city Thane is seeking an overhaul with a Rs 8,385 crore
DEEPANKAR GANGULY Armed with a compensation kitty of Rs 100 crore, the government will begin acquiring 7.5 bighas of land in the city's central business district after Puja to create the East-West Metro corridor. The first land-acquisition notices were issued last week to the owners of two central Calcutta properties
JAYANTA BASU The chief minister at the pollution control board programme. Picture by Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya Environment minister Sailen Sarkar on Tuesday denied colleague Subhas Chakraborty's allegation that the notification on the withdrawal of 15-year-old commercial vehicles was issued keeping the transport department in the dark.
The 32-km elevated second phase of the metro rail project which will connect Charkop and Mankhurd via Bandra will have 27 stations. After the state government okayed the project, the Centre accorded its in-principal approval to the line in February 2007. Two years ago, the cost of the project was pegged at Rs5,616 crore. Now, it has been estimated that the project would cost almost Rs8,400 crore. The deadline for the project is 2012. The Ambani brothers, it has been learnt, will bid for the project.
Old, polluting vehicles are on their way out Transport minister Subhas Chakraborty on Monday expressed surprise at the high court order to phase out 15-year-old commercial vehicles but added his government would implement the directive.
JAYANTA BASU The environment department will be drafting a package of incentives to make the city's transport lobby fall in line with its clean-air notification that the high court converted into a verdict last Friday. Transport unions have threatened to contest the order in the Supreme Court, saying they would need substantial financial support to obey it.
Bijith R / New Delhi July 21, 2008, 0:10 IST With all of Delhi getting ready for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the state-run Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) too has got into makeover mode. Its fleet of buses is getting a facelift and the crumbling bus shelters are making way for sleek stainless steel structures. Plans are also afoot to delete some of the red ink splashed all over its profit and loss account.