Short-term ideas blur gains in bad-air battle
NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party government did score points for promptly reacting to emergency air pollution episodes with measures never attempted earlier such as restricting cars on roads to alternate
Car Free Days
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Come without your car
A festival helped a small town in Punjab discover car-free mobility Fazilka is a small, 162 year-old town on the India-Pakistan border in Ferozepur district. Its unkempt, garbage-strewn congested streets with small, bustling shops are nothing out of the ordinary. But this town of about 68,000 people
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No-car day
Olympics over, green measures on EVEN though the Olympics are over, there is no let off in Beijing
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Turning blight into bloom
As we become an ever more urban species, cities will be a crucial front in the fight against climate change. Scientists, architects and planners must join forces to make our metropolitan future clean and sustainable. (Editorial)
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Olympics 2008, Beijing raising the bar
Beijing is implementing strict measures to improve air quality, a commitment it took on as host of the 2008 Olympic Games. But a boom in automobile numbers could put paid to its plans. Delhi faces the same challenge with the Commonwealth Games slated for
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Beijing experiments with a cars' day off
cars were off Beijing's streets from August 17-20. The city officials decided to experiment in a drive to check pollution and ease the city's traffic. Traffic congestion and brown haze have been
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Reclaiming urban spaces critical for democracy
at the beginning of the 20th century, the Swiss Canton of Graubunden banned all cars from its streets. The canton of Uri clamped a similar ban, a year after. The bans might seem ante-diluvian in
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China to observe 'no car day'; parking fee to be hiked
chinese cities will join the growing band of urban centres around the world to observe
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Cars off the road in Italy
More than 130 cities in northern Italy, including Milan and Verona, banned car traffic for several hours on the last Sunday of February. In Milan, the ban was for two consecutive Sundays.
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Car-Free Day: Can We Do Without Cars for a Day?
A unique mission for a clear sky, experimented by various international cities like Beijing and Paris and now our very own millennium city Gurgaon is set to give its cars a day off. On Agenda, we ask you
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Car-Free Tuesday: Has Gurgaon Set the Trend for Others?
On The Buck Stops Here, we debate: was Gurgaon's car-free Tuesday a hit or a miss? Has the Millennium City set the trend for others? And can India go car-free regularly? Gurgaon Police Commissioner Navdeep