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
Having seen the Metro in Delhi and Kolkata, the urban rail network in Mumbai and Chennai, the Bangalorean had always wondered why the City's existing railway llines weren't put to better use. After all, Bangalore had about a dozen railway stations criss-crossing the City...
The second metro tunnel at Hauz Khas was completed today at 11.30 a.m. The Delhi Metro has completed this project three weeks ahead of schedule. This construction of the tunnel had begun in February this year. The 1,453 metre long tunnel was completed just in four months. This tunnel is parallel to the first tunnel from Malviya Nagar to Hauz Khas, which was completed on May 31. The two tunnels will permit movement of Metro trains that will run on the Central Secretariat-Gurgaon section of Phase-II. The section would be opened to the public in 2010.
The metro rail dream was revived once again for Ahmedabad on Wednesday, when a high-level delegation, led by Singapore minister of state for foreign affairs Balaji Sadasivan, told top Gujarat officials that it was interested in investing in the project in a big way. A senior state official, who participated in the meeting, told TOI: "The metro rapid transport system (MRTS) in Singapore is perhaps the best in the world. There is a need to clinch the opportunity.'
DMRC is all set to complete the Vishvavidyala-Jehangirpuri line a record 10 months ahead of schedule. The 6.36-km stretch, which will ferry 1.51 lakh commuters in two years' time, is expected to be ready by December 2008 Megha Suri | TNN
The Opposition parties on Tuesday asked the the state government to keep the Rs 10,000-crore Hyderabad Metro Rail Project in abeyance for six months. Mr P.L. Srinivas of the Telugu Desam, Mr Bandaru Dattatreya of the BJP, Mr Ramulu Naik of the TRS, Mr Y. Venkateswara Rao of the CPI(M) and Mr K. Srinivasa Rao of the Lok Satta, requested the government to keep the opening of financial bids and awarding of contracts on hold.
A Japanese delegation visited the pilot Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand on Tuesday morning and declared it to be
It is certainly not a bumpy ride for the DMRC. A study by IIT students, based on vibration levels inside the trains, states the metro is one of the most comfortable modes of transport and that it adheres to international standards. The study, carried out with the help of equipment developed by UK's Loughborough University, was conducted on the elevated and underground sections of all three operational lines of the Delhi Metro. The results from all sections were within the "most comfortable' category.
Says IIT study using vibration levels inside trains as measure of comfort Commuters delight: Vibration levels inside Metro trains meet the "most comfortable' tag of ISO standards. NEW DELHI: The Delhi metro railway is one of the most comfortable means of public transport, according a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, using equipment developed in the United Kingdom. The study used vibration levels experienced by passengers in the metro as a measure of the comfort level and compared it with international standard ISO 2631-4-1997.
A. Srivathsan The debate on the Bus Rapid Transit System has been acrimonious, ranging from utter dismissal of the project to informed suggestions to revise the design.
Conceding that accidents on the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) route were taking place due to lack of proper road-crossing facilities for pedestrians, Municipal Commissioner Praveensinh Pardeshi at the general body meeting on Monday said that once the frequency of buses plying on the track increases to one bus every five minutes from the present 10-15 minutes, it would automatically deter other vehicles from using the BRTS route and pedestrians from carelessly crossing the roads. He also said that the BRTS pilot project would be completed by December.