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 …
“Need to replace buses that have outlived their service years” The Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday approved the purchase of 1,100 more buses for the Delhi Transport Corporation. This purchase is over and above the procurement of 625 non-air-conditioned low-floor CNG buses which had earlier been approved of. Chief Minister Sheila …
The Delhi government gave some relief to the people living below poverty line from the Centre’s decision of curtailing number of subsidised LPG cylinder. The city government on Monday decided to provide nine subsidised LPG cylinders instead of six to the BPL people of the city. The decision was taken …
The Delhi Cabinet on Monday decided to provide to 3.56 lakh poor families covered under the recently-launched Kerosene-Free Dilli Scheme three more LPG cylinders per annum at subsidised rates to soften the blow of the Centre’s recent decision to limit the subsidy on domestic cooking gas to just six cylinders …
Govt Study Finds Public Transport System Suffering With Few Buses And Delays New Delhi: The preliminary findings of a study commissioned by the urban development ministry at the Centre has found that the availability of public transport (buses and Metro) in Delhi per 1,000 people is a shocking 0.504. Worse, …
AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) was felicitated by the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize during the World Cities Summit 2012 on 2nd July in Singapore for its early success in implementing a city development plan which aims to transform India's seventh largest city into a more liveable, equitable …
New Delhi The Delhi government on Monday approved a proposal to introduce 1,552 more buses into the cluster bus service being operated by private operators under PPP model in the national Capital. Government officials said the bus service in four clusters — six, seven, eight and nine — would start …
For a city that hopes to follow Delhi’s growth trajectory, Mumbai is only all too eager to soak in everything that a three-time chief minister “passionately in love with Delhi” has to offer. So when Sheila Dikshit came to Express Adda in Mumbai for a freewheeling chat, an exchange of …
Terming as “justifiable” the government’s move to impose five per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) on CNG, the fuel on which the public transport runs in the city, chief minister Sheila Dikshit has ruled out any rollback of the increased price of the fuel. “We will not withdraw the VAT …
New Delhi: Built to promote public transport, specifically bus travel, the bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor from Ambedkar Nagar to Moolchand doesn’t seem to have had any such impact. An interim report by the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) to the Delhi high court states that there is little difference …
NEW DELHI: More than a month after a prodding by the Delhi high court to conduct a "scientific study" of the 5.8km-long bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor at Ambedkar Nagar, commuters will finally see some temporary changes on the stretch. The trial run, which kicks off on Saturday, will do …
Next month, the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor will see a free flow of traffic for a week, as part of the Central Road Research Institute’s study being carried out as per High Court orders. Under the second phase of the study, free flow of traffic will be allowed on …
New Delhi: A year after Delhi government launched the bus cluster scheme, Delhi transport minister Arvinder Singh feels the dynamics of the city’s public transport system has undergone a change. “When the government had said in its affidavit that 11,000 buses are needed, the Delhi Metro still had a small …
New Delhi: In May 2011, the Delhi government launched the vaunted bus cluster scheme which promised to give the city a clean and modern alternative to the “killer” Bluelines. A year later, the scheme seems headed for a spectacular failure. Of the 6,600 buses promised by 2013, only 247 have …
New Delhi: As part of a Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) study on BRT, the opinion of 10,000 road users will be collected and analyzed. CRRI has decided to visit nearby establishments such as the Saket court complex, markets, schools, colleges and offices. “We have around 20 more days for …
Colombo: Delhi’s transport system will now be replicated by other major cities. Sri Lankan minister for petroluem and oil Sushil Premajayantha said that they were using Delhi as a model to replicate the CNG-transport system in Colombo and hoped to start work on the same in coming months. The minister …
Twenty four semi-low floor buses were added to Delhi’s roads under Cluster 5. These buses will mainly ply in North and Central Delhi. A total of 120 buses are to ply under cluster 5 but lack of available land for depots has led to delays in rolling out of the …
The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has clamped immediate ban on the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) in public transport vehicles to prevent deadly accidents, ease gas shortage and improve gas pressure. The decision was taken in a meeting headed by the chairman Ogra here on Friday. The …
A decade ago, plans for a metro and clean-fuel buses were hailed as New Delhi’s answer to pollution. But air in the Indian capital is as dirty as ever — partly because breakneck development has brought skyrocketing use of cars. Citywide pollution sensors routinely register levels of small airborne particles …
The West Bengal government, in partnership with Essar Oil and Indian Oil, may soon run India’s first buses on coal-bed methane, a natural gas extracted from coal beds and, like other gases, considered a better alternative to petrol or diesel. “We were approached by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board …
To Ply On Teevra Mudrika, Punjabi Bagh Route The Delhi government on Monday announced the introduction of cluster bus service in west and north Delhi. As part of it, 50 buses were pressed into service, which will ply on the Teevra Mudrika route, Punjabi Bagh and the Ring Road. Monday’s …
