Public Transport

Judgment of the National Green Tribunal regarding plywood factories operating in Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, 27/05/2025

Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …

City to get 2,500 CNG buses

The city government has decided to launch the "CNG Bus Project' on a public-private partnership basis for the introduction of an environment-friendly public transport system. Under the project, 2,500 more CNG buses would be brought to city over the next five years. City government sources said that in the first …

Right track but wrong assumptions

THE Eddington report contains the right approach to reducing greenhouse emissions from transport, but the assumptions it makes deserve to be challenged. They are, in some cases, far too timid, in other cases over-optimistic and, in general, heavily biased towards business as usual. Eddington's approach, which is correct, is to …

Last Days of the Rickshaw

Among the great cities of the world, Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal and the home of nearly 15 million people, is often mentioned as the only one that still has a large fleet of hand-pulled rickshaws. April 2008

Transport options and traffic management in urban areas: A case study of Pune city

Traffic conditions in most of the cities are very chaotic and crucial, this is particularly observed in million plus cities. As the urbanization process takes momentum, these problems crop up due to the lack of commensurate development of infrastructure, particularly roads, road transport and inadequate public transport system. Weak public …

Public transport scores over private in Goa

Evidence against the efficiency of private transport system is mounting. Latest is a study of the transport system in Goa that punctures the perception that private operators provide better services than public undertakings. The Gujarat-based Institute of Rural Management Anand (irma) compared the services of the state undertaking Kadamba Transport …

HC admits PIL against Metro Rail project

The High Court admitted a PIL filed by CMH Shops and Establishments and Residents Association challenging the very commissioning of the Metro Rail project. The High Court on Thursday admitted a PIL filed by CMH Shops and Establishments and Residents' Association challenging the very commissioning of the Metro Rail project. …

Manmohan gives city cleanest, greenest tag

The Sheila Dikshit government on Monday received a pat on the back from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Speaking on occasion of the foundation stone laying ceremony of the 1,500-MW power plant in Bawana, the PM lauded the

Much-hyped BRT gets small change

The allocation for transport has been increased by nearly Rs 900 crore in this year's budget. But the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system which had featured prominently in last year's budget speech

Metro bags Rs 819 crore

With construction of Delhi Metro's second phase on full-stream, and the first section between Dilshad Garden and Shahdara up for completion by the year-end, the state budget has allocated a sum of Rs 819.93 crore for Metro rail in 2008-09. The money will be utilised for construction of eight new …

Bus service to be overhauled

With a clear aim to give a fillip to the Capital's public transport system before the Commonwealth Games, the government has given the largest allocation of funds to the transport sector. A whopping Rs 2,933 crore (29%) has been set aside for new buses, more roads and bridges and expansion …

3.4m deal to power clean buses

International firm Air Products will fuel London's planned fleet of hydrogen buses in a

Fate of imported CNG buses hangs in the balance

The fate of 15 CNG buses, which had arrived at the Karachi port over seven months ago, hangs in the balance as the transport company plans to challenge a government notification describing the buses as of Indian origin. "We will challenge in a court of law the government notification giving …

Low-floor buses run on trial

The transport department of Delhi put 50 low -floor -high capacity buses on five-km -trial run in the high corridor today from Ambedkar Nagar. The passed off without any difficulty. The Ambedkar Nagar to Delhi Gate corridor will be completed till April 2008. The decision to construct the corridor was …

London double-decker set to ply Shimonoseki's streets

A distinctive red double-decker bus from London on loan to the city of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, was unveiled to the press Wednesday ahead of the start possibly this spring of its scheduled service. Shimonoseki will be the first Japanese city operating a Routemaster bus on a regular basis. Aimed at …

Policies leave the city choking on traffic fumes

WITH EastLink due to open in the middle of this year, inner-city Melbourne will need to brace itself for the additional traffic that will hit the end of the Eastern Freeway. Around 140,000 vehicles use the Eastern Freeway every day, and EastLink is expected to add more than 20%. So …

Mumbai's metro rail on wrong track

V K J RANE The Mumbai metro looks set to run on standard gauge tracks. The Union Ministry of Railways had recommended the broad gauge system, but the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority deemed the narrower standard gauge system suitable for Mumbai's geography. Not everybody is pleased with the decision. …

CNG-based public transport system promised by June

The government will launch a pilot project on the public-private partnership basis for improving the public transport system of Karachi in June this year. The Senate Standing Committee on the Environment was informed on Thursday that the project would focus on plying CNG buses in the provincial metropolis. Expressing its …

BEST deal in Metro projected

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) which has taken up mass transport system projects like Metro rail, Mono Rail, BRT etc will soon get one more partner for its ongoing developmental projects - BEST Undertaking. According to the new proposal, the BEST is going to provide its prime spaces …

10,000 new buses by 2010: Sheila

To revamp the transport scenario ahead of the Commonwealth Games in 2010, the Delhi Government will introduce 10,000 new buses -- including modern low-floor ones -- within two years and as many as 20 per cent of them would be air-conditioned to bring more personal vehicle users on to the …

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