Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
Only mass rapid transit solutions can provide India’s urban commuters with efficient mobility. Billions of man-hours are lost with people ‘stuck in traffic’. This fact is also echoed in government’s national urban transport policy. The reasons are well known: exponential growth of motor vehicles with negligible increase in road space. …
The Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project could be pulled out of cold storage and become a reality shortly. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, while interacting with TOI journalists last week, said the project was "still on the cards". Chavan said, "I have not given up completely on BRTS, an internationally …
New Delhi: The transport department is on a review overdrive. After the chief minister called for a reassessment of the upcoming BRT corridors, the department has drawn up a list of design specifications for the project. These include integration with the Metro, extensive use of foot overbridges and reclaiming additional …
AHMEDABAD: A team of US researchers looking to study the impact of traffic on society decided to take the road less travelled. Rather than going for usual parameters such as pollution, fumes emitted or how many people travel per car, they decided to take three streets with high, moderate and …
A cabinet meeting, chaired by prime minister Sheikhy Hasina, on Monday approved in principle a proposal for the creation of a special organization for operating Bus Rapid Transit between Shahjalal International Airport and Gazipur to curb the capital city’s traffic congestion. The Roads Division of the Communications Ministry placed the …
NEW DELHI: As envisaged earlier, there will be no monorail link to the proposed knowledge-based industrial park in South West Delhi if the city government accepts the report of an expert group which gave thumbs down to the project on the grounds of financial viability. The Rail India Transit and …
NEW DELHI: Declaring the monorail link a financially unviable option, RITES, a transport and infrastructure consultancy, has in a report to the state government recommended that a high speed Bus Road Transit (BRT) elevated corridor should be constructed instead. The report states the BRT will provide easy access to people …
The controversial East-West Corridor may finally see the light of the day with the PWD suggesting its integration with three new BRT corridors. "Parts of these three BRT corridors fall in the same route as the proposed the East-West Corridor and it has been suggested that the project be integrated …
This document details the new Standard of assessing the quality of BRT systems developed by Institute for Transportation & Development Policy. The BRT Standard is an effort by leading technical experts to come to a common understanding of what constitutes internationally recognized best practice in BRT system design. The best …
Lahore—Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif laid the foundation stone of first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System of country’s history at Ferozepur Road, here Sunday. In the first phase, 27 kilometer long track will be laid from Gajjumata to Shahadara and this project will be completed in collaboration with Turk …
New Delhi: Travelling on the Ambedkar Nagar-Delhi Gate bus rapid transit corridor could get difficult in the days ahead. Officials of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) say work on the Janakpuri (west)-Kalindi Kunj line will start soon, with construction of Chirag Dilli station expected to begin in May 2012. The …
The preliminary project report for the six Bus Rapid Transit corridors (BRT) under Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System (DIMTS) has been submitted to the government. Keeping in mind the congestion along all the BRT corridors, DIMTS has suggested that some portions along each of the corridors need not have dedicated …
The East-West Corridor project, which has hit several roadblocks over the years, will now be re-evaluated in view of the fact that three of the 14 proposed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors will fall along the route. The decision to re-evaluate the project was taken after a recent meeting in …
PWD Likely To Get Govt Nod To Integrate Controversial Corridor With Three New BRTs New Delhi: The controversial East-West Corridor may finally see the light of the day with PWD suggesting its integration with three new BRT corridors. “Parts of these three BRT corridors fall in the same route as …
The Urban Development Ministry has given in-principle approval to three Regional Rapid Transit System corridors which will vastly improve Delhi's connectivity with Alwar, Panipat and Meerut. The Urban Development Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, “approved in-principle the concept proposal of implementing Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) in three important corridors in …
Capital Development Authority (CDA) has finalized feasibility report for launching of Prime Minister’s CDA Rapid Bus Transit Project and will advertise the formal process for the procurement of CNG buses during this week. The process of procurement will be completed within 20 days after the advertisement and the project will …
New Delhi: Months after the Delhi government announced the construction of 14 new BRT (bus rapid transit) corridors across the city, its ambitious project seemstobe miredin doubt. Sources say that the decision to start the next BRT corridor in KarawalNagar-Shastri Park is in limbo as the government has asked for …
The Centre has sanctioned Rs 121 crore for the revised plan of city's BRTS (Bus Rapid Transit System) corridor project. This was conveyed on Thursday by the Union Urban Administration Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, at a meeting held in New Delhi, sources in the Madhya Pradesh Urban Administration Department said. …
Urban mobility has different dimensions. Mobility is due to various purposes and needs. It encompasses movability by public, private and personalised modes, and manoeuvrability through the facilitations of various transport infrastructure and services provided by the concerned authorities. In this context, the role of various modes of public transport in …
Environmentalists, architects and planners on Friday demanded cancellation of the proposed 'metro rail' route that will affect the Jatiya Sangsad premises. They made the demand at a press conference jointly organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andalon (BAPA), Bangladesh Architect Institute (BAI),Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) and Sacheton Shipli Samaj at the …
