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
On the eve of Earth Day, Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan on Monday appealed to the people to protest against the controversial new Bus Rapid Transit corridor by taking out candlelight marches across Delhi. One such procession would also be taken out by the Delhi BJP on the 5.6-km Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand Hospital section of the corridor on which trial runs have begun.
A rude shock awaited Delhiites who happened to take the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand Hospital stretch of the controversial new Bus Rapid Transit corridor in the Capital on the second day of its trial run on Monday with utter chaos and clutter crippling traffic flow to a snail's pace.
Guess who's set to drive the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) once it rolls into the city? It's the Amdavadi women, who are ready to hop onto this clean-green mode of transport. An elaborate household survey conducted in March this year to determine the willingness of commuters to shift to BRTS revealed that a whopping 43.19 per cent of women surveyed, cutting across all economic strata, said they would love to take the BRTS. In contrast, 31.9 per cent men said they would prefer the BRTS.
After 1.11 Lakh Trucks, Around 5 Lakh Old Passenger Cars May Go Off Capital's Roads Soon AFTER cancelling the registration of 1.11 lakh trucks older than 15 years last month, the Delhi government is planning a similar move for passenger cars. Of the 16 lakh private vehicles registered in Delhi, a third are over 15 years old and may be taken off the Capital's roads within the next few months.
After strongly rejecting the New Delhi Municipal Council's proposed "three-loop' traffic system last year for being "impractical', the New Delhi Traders' Association has suggested an improvised plan based on the existing pattern to solve chronic traffic problems ailing the heart of the Capital. According to NDTA president Atul Bhargav, the plan has been submitted to the NDMC and Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) S. N. Shrivastava in March, but it is yet to be approved.
The Centre on Thursday said that construction work on the metro rail projects in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata and Kochi would commence within two years. Replying to a question in Rajya Sabha, Union urban development minister Jaipal Reddy said: "The metro projects for Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata and Kochi are in different stages of approval. The government's effort is to expedite the process.
A corridor from Peeli Kothi to Lothian Bridge to be built at a cost of Rs 75 crore Proposed in 2005 and shelved many times, the decongestion plan around Old Delhi Railway station may finally see the light of the day. Announced in the Budget 2007-08 as a part of the plan, a corridor on Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Marg from Peeli Kothi to Lothian Bridge is expected to come up by December 2009.
Wiser after a series of fatal mishaps, police have been seeking help from various municipalities for better traffic management. The civic bodies have been requested to join hands with the cops to spread awareness about traffic norms and take steps to ensure road safety. The municipalities have responded to the plea and are in talks with the police over the measures to be taken.
The trial run on the first 5.6-km section of the highly controversial Bus Rapid Transit Corridor from Ambedkar Nagar to Moolchand Hospital in South Delhi would begin from April 22. To begin with, 20 new low-floor buses would be pressed into service on this section. Disclosing this on Wednesday, Delhi Transport Minister Haroon Yusuf expressed confidence that the corridor would live up to public expectations. "The corridor would be formally thrown open to the public in the first week of May. I am sure people will appreciate it once it is opened,' he said.