The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) will construct dedicated Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) lanes on the Pune-Mumbai highway and Aundh-Ravet Road at an estimated cost of Rs 12 crore. Shirish Poreddy of the civic engineering department said, "The 12-km stretch of the Pune-Mumbai highway from Bhakti Shakti chowk …
Pak Invitation For University Ahmedabad: Who do civic authorities in Pakistan’s second largest city — Lahore — turn to when they want to improve their bus service? They have requested experts from Ahmedabad’s Cept University to give inputs towards improving Lahore’s latest public transport service — Metro Bus System. A …
Ahmedabad: The widening work on an important stretch of the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar highway (NH 8-C), which connects the western part of Ahmedabad to the state capital, has finally taken off after a delay of over six months. The Rs 55-crore project has, however, hit a roadblock with the compound wall and …
The Planning Commission’s Appraisal Has Stressed On Consistent Implementation Of Reforms And Holistic Urban Renewal Pune: Urban planners and activists have criticized the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for their inapt handling of works done under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewable Mission (JNNURM). The PMC has spent crores of rupees …
INDORE: A team of World Bank officials reviewed BRTS progress and expressed satisfaction over its status, here on Thursday. Construction of bus stands on the 11-km stretch of BRTS that has 21 stations, is in its last leg while erection of civil infrastructure started in 2007 is on at a …
Taller Buildings To Be Encouraged Over Wide Area Ahmedabad: Raising the floor space index (FSI) by up to 30% across Ahmedabad to create more affordable housing units will be the thrust of the new development plan (DP) likely to be announced on Friday. The plan, which covers 1,772 sq km …
Pune: Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said that the state government was preparing a new legislation to set rules for integrated urbanization. “Today over 50% of the population in the state lives in urban areas and more villages are merging with urban areas. Urban governance has become challenge in …
NEW DELHI: An end to motorists' BRT woes may finally be in sight. The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has revived a major project to build a 5.5km arterial road running almost next to the Bus Rapid Transit corridor that will enable commuters to avoid the jam-ridden road and will also …
Jaipur: After making alternations in the design several times, the state government has finally decided to shelve the Bus Rapid Transit Service (BRTS) project proposed from Panipech to Sanganer. Finding it non- viable due to space constraints along the road, the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) took the decision to drop …
BHOPAL: Incomplete work on the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) along the Hoshangabad Road stretch up to Misrod is causing inconvenience to the commuters, as the civic body struggles to meet its deadline on the project. Lack of service lanes on the Hoshangabad Road stretch is adding to the problems …
The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notices to the Delhi Government, the State Transport Authority and the Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Limited on a fresh public interest petition seeking scrapping of the Capital’s 5.7-km-long BRT corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand flyover in South Delhi. Issuing the notices, …
This new book by World Bank explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in the growing cities in developing countries including India. Focuses on identifying barriers to and opportunities for effective coordination of transport infrastructure and urban development. 'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit …
This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can prevent their cities from locking into irreversible physical and social structures. At the core of the policy framework are the three main dimensions of urban development. Planning — Making …
Strategy 2020 and Sustainable Transport Initiative of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) acknowledge prioritize the role of transport sector in climate change and vice-versa in transport. The Clean Development Mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) uses project formulation and implementation to combat climate change by …
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) can now push its river restoration as well as construction and development of heritage sites along the Mula-Mutha river projects to completion at the earliest. The reason is that the Central government has released Rs56.63 crore to the PMC for executing infrastructure projects under the …
RITES had proposed the construction of dedicated bus lanes in the grid system in the tricity. It had also suggested that both the Metro under the Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) and Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) System be developed at the same time. Also, it recommended integration points with the …
A total of two Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) projects were sanctioned under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in the country during the last three years and the current year. None of the two projects have missed their deadlines for completion. Ministry of Urban Development is continuously …
Months after giving the go-ahead to seven BRT corridors to be constructed by the PWD, the transport department is looking at the projects to be undertaken by DIMTS (Delhi integrated multi-modal transit system). On Thursday, it reviewed the Dhaula Kuan-Chhawala alignment which is to be built by DIMTS. Sources said …
Transit Oriented Development is essentially any development, macro or micro, that is focused around a transit node, and facilitates complete ease of access to the transit facility, thereby inducing people to prefer to walk and use public transportation over personal modes of transport. The Primary Goals of TOD are to: …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved order on a petition seeking review of an order dismissing a public interest litigation (PIL) praying for scrapping of the BRT corridor in the Capital. A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Manmohan Singh reserved the order on …
