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
Bangalore
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Air pollution cannot be taken lightly. And here’s proof
In February, artist Avril Stormy Unger spent 10 hours each day for five days on Old Madras Road, sitting with wilted flowers and an anti-pollution mask, on an over-sized chair, next to an air quality index
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Urban transport planning in Bengaluru- A polycentric governance system
<p>Transport planning in Bengaluru is characterised by institutional fragmentation, increasing private modes of transport, and questionable investment decisions in the transport sector. What are the possibilities
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Implementation plan for electrification of public bus transport in Bengaluru
Last year, Karnataka announced a landmark policy on electric vehicles, becoming the first Indian state to do so. Now, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is in the process of procuring
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City calling
The urban voter in Bengaluru was once voiceless, with no say or sway in the poll outcome—blame it on the vote bank’s negligible size and political apathy. But, post the 2008 delimitation of constituencies,
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Worlds cleanest petrol, diesel now in Delhi
Worlds cleanest petrol and diesel are now being supplied in Delhi after state-owned oil firms advanced rollout of Euro-VI grade fuel by two years in a bid to combat alarming levels of air pollution.
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Bangalore’s toxic legacy intensifies: status of landfills, waste processing sites and dumping grounds, and working conditions of Pourakarmikas
A wide range of people from all over Bangalore, representing a range of organisations and communities from within the city, peri-urban areas and villages affected by waste disposal, were present when Justice
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Water bodies in Bengaluru Metropolitan Area
<p>Objective of the project is to create a database on water bodies in Bengaluru Metropolitan Area (Jurisdiction of BBMP and BDA) by identifying the water bodies through physical verification; assessing
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A long way to go before we can breathe easy
All monitoring stations in Bengaluru continue to record higher than permissible limits of air pollution The numbers may have improved slightly in the city, but Bengaluru remains far from achieving healthy
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Number of vehicles in Bengaluru more than doubles to 70 lakh in 10 years
BENGALURU: The number of vehicles registered in Bengaluru has climbed to 70.28 lakh -- 48.69 lakh two-wheelers and 13.58 lakh four-wheelers. However, the actual number could be higher since out-of-state
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All three extreme events and the cause common
The bouts of rainfall that battered Houston, Mumbai and Calcutta last week, albeit in vastly different amounts, may earn tags of extreme rain events that weather scientists say are becoming more common