Electric bikes, or e-bikes, are close substitutes for cars and two-wheelers because they cover longer distances with less effort. Thus, e-bikes will play a key role in shifting passenger and freight trips away from high-polluting private vehicles and generating fewer emissions if used at scale. While vehicle electrification has focused …
Staff Reporter NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan on Monday demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into purchase of 625 non-air-conditioned low-floor buses by the Transport Department of the Government on the ground that these buses had been purchased for Rs.41.74 lakh each from Tata Motors …
For Value-Added Services, Operators Allowed To Fix Fares New Delhi: The state cabinet on Monday, gave its approval to a proposal to allow corporates operating buses on prescribed route clusters. The proposal is to provide value added services like AC buses and sitting-only buses for which, the operator would be …
Pune, September 16 Army hurdle over, natural gas by first week of October Pune is all set to get piped Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in time for the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG). With the Army having given clearance for the Dehu Road stretch of the pipeline project, Gas Authority of …
Chasing deadlines with low gas Bottlenecks In CNG Availability Affect Complete Switchover To Clean Fuel Neha Shukla | TNN Lucknow: CNG is on its way to become the most widely used fuel in the city, courtesy air quality management plan of Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) which envisages use …
Staff Reporter DTC directed to initiate negotiations for the purchase The Cabinet also gave the green signal for re-development of DTC depots and terminals PWD proposal for construction of a road over-bridge and road under-bridge cleared NEW DELHI: The Delhi Cabinet on Monday gave its nod for purchase of 1,250 …
WEEKEND RUMINATIONS T N Ninan / New Delhi August 02, 2008, 5:02 IST The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has a fleet of some 3,600 buses. In two years, it will have 80 per cent more buses, despite retiring about half of today's fleet. That is not because the existing fleet …
Mandakini Gahlot New Delhi, July 27 The number of vehicles on the Capital's roads has been growing at a fast pace. And now this growth is expected to speed up further. Newsline looks at some figures * The two decades between 1981 and 2001 have seen a phenomenal increase in …
Raju William Tribune News Service Gurgaon, July 22 Thousands of commuters between Gurgaon, Delhi and the National Capital Region may feel relieved as 23 CNG-operated buses, including seven low-floor air-conditioned ones, will start plying from tomorrow. The step follows the start of two CNG filling stations here. Without causing much …
The Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts and Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM) has flayed allowing import of 10 years old Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses from India, announced in the Trade Policy 2008-09. Chairman PAAPAM, A Malik said Monday that Pakistan would become a junkyard of used machinery as a result of …
Residents of Madangir in south Delhi blocked the traffic at the Pushpa Bhawan crossing on the pilot Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor on Monday morning, inconveniencing scores of commuters headed to work. The protesters demanded that the bus lanes throughout the corridor should be shifted to the extreme left of …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who has been in power for almost 10 years, has been credited with taking Delhi from a doom city to a boom city. But her detractors say she has made the city a huge construction site, as it gears up for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. How …
NEW DELHI, July 8: The Delhi transport department has impounded a large number of buses in wake of the Supreme Court's order to convert the school vans and school buses to CNG mode and formally register them as commercial contract carriage passenger vehicles. The department impounded a total 45 vans …
Megha Suri New Delhi: Using public transport to reach IGI airport may soon be a whole new experience. After the metro's upcoming 20-minute line to IGI from Connaught Place, the urban development ministry along with Delhi Transport Corporation is planning a
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. No urban development project in the recent past has received so much attention as the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in Delhi. In …
The changing face of public transport is all set to change the way Delhi travels. Small cars are passe, it's the age of the AC buses. Says transport commissioner R K Verma,
The bus commuters plying between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh can now look forward to an easy journey. The Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Governments signed an agreement on Monday, which would facilitate free movement of vehicles in each other's territory. "Better connectivity between NCR in UP and Delhi and free movement …
