Rapid population growth and the expansion of metropolitan regions are defining features of India’s economic growth story. The number of Indian cities with populations above one million increased from 23 in 1991 to 53 in 2011. The average population density has also snowballed to 464 persons/sq km in 2020, 13 …
Pune To resolve issues related to implementation of Metro rail project, Mayor Mohansingh Rajpal will meet his counterpart in the neighbouring civic body. The discussion will be held after responding to all the queries of citizens on June 18.
The Gurgaon Qutab Minar stretch of the Delhi Metro will be thrown open to the public soon. The Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety has completed inspection for the mandatory clearance. According to a Delhi Metro official, the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) R.K. Kardam inspected the 14.47 km line …
Pune Managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) E Sreedharan has stated that the state government should take a lead in implementation of Metro rail project in Pune, as the project could not be accomplished through the efforts of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) alone. Sreedharan was replying to …
Mumbai: A major hurdle to the 11-km Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar (VAG) Metro One was removed on Wednesday. The 180-metre railway over bridge (RoB) connecting Andheri West and East finally got the nod of the Western Railway officials. The two concept designs, submitted by officials of the Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd (MMOPL), …
KOCHI: Decks have been cleared for five Metro Rail-associated projects that are expected to ease traffic congestion in the city. With the detailed project reports (DPR) getting ready, tender procedures for the projects will begin by month-end. The five projects include renovation of the North railway overbridge (ROB), construction of …
A demolition and eviction drive by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) at Basaveshwara slum in Okalipura, turned ugly when some slumdwellers refused to vacate the area on Tuesday. According to BMRCL officials, a few residents who are said to be illegal tenants could not produce either a
Metropolitan Planning Committee meet in June to set agenda for Pune region Even as the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is keen on reaching a decision on the metro project and the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has drawn out plans for Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS), the Metropolitan Planning Committee (MPC) …
Mumbai: Travelling woes of faraway suburbs of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region are soon to be over. With the officials of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) putting the Thane-Kalyan-Bhiwandi monorail route on the fast track, these towns will soon see monorail connectivity. Besides, work on the third metro corridor …
two incidents of fire in April ruined traders of the plastic scrap market in Mundka village in Delhi’s outskirts. While waste pickers search heaps of burnt plastic for metal scraps they can sell to buy a meal, the land owners in Mundka are hoping for better times. The plastic scrap …
THE AMBITIOUS PROJECT'S FIRST MANIFESTATION, THE ELEVATED STAGE WILL CONNECT KOYAMBEDU AND ST THOMAS MOUNT As of today we are on schedule... Nearly seven hectares of land have to be acquired. Efforts are on to acquire the land by this year THE work on the elevated stage of Chennai Metro …
The Tamil Nadu Government proposes to enact a law to give statutory authority to the Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (UMTA) soon. The authority will enable creation of a multimodal transport system that will integrate the various public transport systems available in Chennai. In October 2007, the State Government constituted the …
Mumbai: Even before the city gets its metro, a controversy has already arisen over the second route of metro. Residents of H (west) ward have objected to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) starting digging work for soil testing from Bandra junction to Santa Cruz (West) for Metro-II. The …
Metro rails are under construction in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Smaller urban centres are also drawn to it. It is fashionable to place metros in city planning and budgets. Invariably, a coterie of engineers, bureaucrats and ministers make such public transport choices. For a mega-project with unnecessary and irreversible impacts, …
April 28: SMRT Corporation, the pioneer in public transportation in Singapore, has sent proposals to develop metro rail projects in the state including the Hyderabad metro rail project. SMRT proposes to take up the projects based on a Build-Operate-Transfer mo-del. The Singapore metro is one of the few metro rail …
The metro stations will have a concourse level and a platform level. The concourse level is where the automatic fare collection counters will be situated.
The Central Secretariat-Gurgaon Metro corridor can now boast of an automatic train washing plant at the Sultanpur depot, the highest in Asia. Owing to the limited depot area availability (58,423 sq metres), the washing plant was designed in a unique fashion and constructed at a height to suit the requirements …
Pune Civic activists and non-governmental organisations have come together to form Pune Metro Jagruti Abhiyan to spread awareness among citizens about the metro proposal.
