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 …
A senior leader of the Delhi BJP, Vijender Gupta, demanded that the Delhi government should issue a white paper on the purchase of low-floor buses in the Capital. The Congress in its assembly election manifesto promised to replace Blueline buses with low-floor buses if it was voted to power. But …
Pune In a new twist to the bus purchase saga, the Central Government has opposed the proposal of the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) to purchase 200 low-floor CNG-run buses and asked it to go for diesel-run buses instead, saying the CNG-bus manufacturers would not be able to supply …
There is no proposal by the government to restrict the use of private cars in the city in order to cut carbon dioxide emissions, nor is there a plan to impose any congestion tax, Union minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh said here on Monday. The objective …
The Federal government has started implementation of launching of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses in all the major cities of the country and it will be completed by the end of 2010. According to a senior official of the Environment Ministry, the government was implementing on priority as the pilot …
There would be 50 CNG buses covering two routes initially. Two different manufacturers, each providing 25 buses, have made these CNG buses locally. The CDGK has already paid the full cost for the buses. The purpose of putting CNG buses on the roads is to ensure that the citizens were …
Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan inaugurated on Monday a CNG bus project, saying that it was a gift for the citizens of Karachi and would ease their transport and pollution problems. In the first phase, the city government will run 50 CNG-powered buses on two different routes
May Allow Half The Fleet In Cluster To Be Semi Low-Floor With the corporatization of the Blueline fleet yet to take off, the government may decide to allow private operators to have semi-low floor buses as half of the fleet instead of the low-floor buses to bring down costs. In …
The corporate buses will start plying from September and will have GPS and smart card fare system The Delhi transport department has decided to install global positioning (GPS) and smart card fare systems in corporate buses that would run on city roads from September. Commissioner and secretary of Delhi transport …
Work on CNG buses project for the city has come to a halt, as the Ministry of Environment has delayed releasing Rs 500 million to the Karachi Mass Transit Cell (KMTC) of City District Government Karachi (CDGK) in the outgoing fiscal year. According to reliable sources, the money reserved for …
LUCKNOW: It is an official projection that 6-hours is the minimum waiting required for a vehicle to get re-filled at any of the CNG stations in Lucknow. In such a situation even temporary shutdown of any of these stations for routine maintenance hits public transport hard. However, commissioning of an …
National Forum on Environment and Health (NFEH) has expressed grave concern over the fast degradation of environment in the country especially Karachi in the past 12 years which inflicted huge losses to the economy and posed threat to resources. In a "fact sheet on environment protection", issued here Friday on …
Much-needed CNG-powered buses will start plying on 40 designated routes in the city any time during the next financial year as the ground work for the launching of the scheme has been completed in all respects, according to well-placed city government officials. The government was now looking to the banking …
New Delhi: The state cabinet on Monday gave its nod to DTC to purchase 1,000 semi low floor buses. DTC has been asked to expedite the procurement of these buses. This is a divergence from the earlier decision to procure only low floor buses and officials say it was necessitated …
Pune The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd (PMPML) Board has opted for a private-public partnership (PPP) to buy 650 buses, including 200 AC coaches, under the JNNURM scheme. The project is worth Rs 400 crore. As many as 100 will be Volvo buses run on diesel and the rest will …
The Chinese delegation headed by Jamshaid Ullah, General Manager, Rimedyne Refrigeration System Co Ltd, committed to export 30 CNG buses in the first phase for Islamabad, while CDA informed that they need 500 CNG buses for Islamabad which is environment friendly. A nine-member delegation from People's Republic of China visited …
LUCKNOW: At least 500 buses plying in Lucknow are awaiting CNG conversion. Close to 30,000 kg of CNG is left un-used everyday. Going by the fact that a single bus runs on 60 kg of CNG, 30,000 kg is sufficient to run 500 buses everyday. The reality, however, is otherwise. …
13 May 2009, 0300 hrs IST, Abantika Ghosh, TNN NEW DELHI: If you have been wondering why the number of low-floor buses in the city do not seem to be increasing, here's why. Delhi has not received a single low floor bus since July 2008. The next lot of 2,500 …
Ministry of Environment has decided to enforce Euro-II emission standards for all new petrol driven imported and locally manufactured vehicles from July this year and the same standard would be applicable for diesel driven automobiles from July 2012. According to a senior official of the Environment Ministry the decision to …
