On two legs and a prayer
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Electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries in lower- and middle-income countries
The largest economies in the world are rapidly transitioning new vehicle sales away from gasoline and diesel internal combustion engine vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles. This transition is
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Indias mobility merchants
As western auto markets shrink due to environmental concerns coupled with financial tightening and long-term worries about fuel supply, India has witnessed a decade-long steep sales growth rates in all categories of vehicles. The promise of a rapidly growing automobile market has brought every global auto manufacturer of significance to India.
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Subir Roy: When will we ever learn? (editorial)
The name Gore Vidal takes up more than two-thirds of the space on the cover of my old paperback collection of some of his essays. For good reason, as the same cover has New Statesman, a considerable thunderer in those days, describing Vidal as "America's finest essayist'. In it is a little gem, his 1974 essay, "What Robert Moses Did to New York city', which educated Indians worried about the urban blight afflicting their country can read with benefit.
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Noted environmentalist Sunita Narain injured in a road accident
NEW DELHI: Centre of Science and Environment director-general Sunita Narain was injured in a road accident while cycling near the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here on Sunday morning. According
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Cities safer by design: guidance and examples to promote traffic safety through urban and street design
Cities Safer by Design is a global reference guide to help cities save lives from traffic fatalities through improved street design and smart urban development. Over 1.2 million people die in traffic crashes
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Delhi High court order on congestion
Text of Delhi high court judgement in response to petition filed by Manushi & ITD against MCD on limiting cycle rickshaw licenses.The court has directed Delhi government,MCD,DDA & Delhi Police to constitute a task force to explore for solutions to manage road traffic, minimize congestion, reduce vehicular pollution and ensure equitable access to all classes of vehicles including non-motorized tran
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Mobility for all: a strategic transportation plan for Ranchi
Ranchi is the capital of Jharkhand, a state that remains largely rural, but is urbanising fast. The use of personal motor vehicles is expanding rapidly in Ranchi, leading to congestion in central areas
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Our roads not made for this zero-carbon footprint vehicle
Sangeetha HERE is a man who thinks, talks and walks cycle rickshaws even if he does not drive one. Dr Pradip Kumar Sarmah, Executive Director of Centre for Rural Development (CRD) is a crusader for the cause of cycle rickshaw.
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Kolkata cyclists move court in demand of their right to passage
Demanding that cyclists and other users of non-motorised transport (NMT) should be allowed to move freely in the city, activists have sought the intervention of the Calcutta High Court. A PIL filed by members of the 'Chakra Satyagraha', a movement against the NMT ban, is expected to come up for hearing in a division bench of the court of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Joymalya Bagchi on Wednesday.
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PMC’s public bicycle project back on track
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) general body (GB) on Monday approved a proposal for the public bicycle project. Under the Rs7-crore plan, the contractor would make 300 bicycles available to citizens
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Integrating refrigerants with low global warming potential into India’s light vehicle fuel efficiency standards
India’s light vehicle fuel consumption standards currently ignore both direct and indirect emissions from mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems. The MAC does not operate during the official tests that
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Will Mumbai prioritise the Bus Rapid Transit System?
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority and the state government have decided to focus on the
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Civic body to draw norms for plying of cycle rickshaws
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has taken the first step towards commencing the process of registration and licensing of cycle-rickshaws by framing draft guidelines in compliance with the directions of the Delhi High Court. On Tuesday, the matter was laid before the NDMC Standing Committee, but members postponed it till the next meeting stating it required detailed discussions. A letter from the Municipal Commissioner on Tuesday stated that the application forms for registration of cycle rickshaw and licensing of pullers have been finalised. “There shall be a registration fee of Rs.500 (valid for five years) and parking fee of Rs.500 (one time) whereas the licensing fee to be charged for grant of puller/plier licence shall be Rs.150 (valid for three years) which has also been indicated on the top of the application forms…” states the letter.
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Bicycles for health workers soon
KOLKATA, 18 OCT: The state health department has decided to provide bicycles under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) to reach remote areas in the blocks. A team of officials from NRHM recently visited various block primary health care centres and primary health care centres and found that the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), who are
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Official government statistics of road traffic deaths in India under-represent pedestrians and motorised two wheeler riders
<p>Reliable data on traffic deaths are important for planning road safety programmes and evaluating progress. Although pedestrians comprise approximately 40% of traffic deaths in low-income and middle-income
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Evidence-based intervention in physical activity: lessons from around the world
Promotion of physical activity is a priority for health agencies. We searched for reviews of physical activity interventions, published between 2000 and 2011, and identified effective, promising, or emerging
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Delhi tops the country in fatal road accidents and pedestrians and cyclists falling victim, claims CSE
LUCKNOW: About 16 people die and 58 are injured every hour in India due to road accidents - the death rate, in fact, is equivalent to wiping out about 40 per cent of the population of a small nation like
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Indian cities squeeze out cyclists
This week, Indian environmentalist Sunita Narain was hit by a car in New Delhi, while on her daily morning cycle ride. The intrepid Narain underwent nine hours of surgery, but still managed to get her
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Non-polluting vehicles not given due sanctity
Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar lent her support to the cause of providing space to cyclists and other poor people who can ill afford private transport by demanding that the original design of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) be retained in all such corridors coming up in the city.