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 …
New Delhi: With both BJP and AAP making chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s pet project, the Bus Rapid Transit Corridor, a poll issue, the CM has let it be known that even the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand stretch will be scrapped if her party returns to power. This realization, an admission of failure, …
‘No More Trial Runs Till Survey Is Done’ Pune: The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML), the city’s bus transport undertaking, has urged the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporations to conduct a road safety audit of the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT) routes which would be commissioned in a …
Civic Chief Says It Is The Only Option To Solve City’s Traffic Woes Pune: Despite the elected representatives demanding to scrap the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), municipal commissioner Mahesh Pathak said on Thursday that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will have to go ahead with its implementation, as it …
An independent cell for bus rapid transit (BRT) operations will ensure its success. The Nagrik Chetna Manch (NCM), a non-political organization working on sustainable transport and civic issues, has stressed on the need for such a cell, to manage and operate the BRT system and urged the traffic police and …
GAZIPUR: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday laid the foundation stone of bus rapid transit (BRT) and metro rail here aiming to ease the sufferings of commuters, reports UNB. The foundation laying ceremony took place at Bhawal Badre Alam University College, Gazipur where the premier will address a public rally. …
Environment and forests minister Hasan Mahmud slammed Transparency International, Bangladesh for its recent investigation report on the government’s climate change trust fund utilization. Read more in this October 2013 edition of the Monthly Bangladesh State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share. ENVIRONMENT …
Inauguration of the first four-lane road and foundation laying ceremony of the city's mass transport projects will be held on October 31. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lay the foundation stones of mass rapid transit (MRT) line-6 and bus rapid transit (BRT) at Uttara and Gazipur and inaugurate the Nabinagar-Chandra …
Pune: Incomplete works to facilitate the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on a 16-km stretch between Vishrantwadi and Wagholi on Ahmednagar Road that can jeopardize the safety of commuters if the project is launched in its current state, have irked citizens and members of industrial associations. A joint panel, comprising …
NewDelhi: Environmental activist Sunita Narain was hit by a car while cycling to Lodi Gardens from Green Park at 6am on Sunday. She sustained serious injuries on her face, nose and both arms, and underwent an eight-and-a-half hour surgery at AIIMS trauma centre during which two rods were implanted in …
Pvt Vehicles Rise As Public Transport Remains Poor Pune: Smaller cities, experiencing a more rapid shift to personal vehicles in the absence of adequate investment in a strong public transport system, are struggling with severe air pollution, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) research has observed. Such is the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Kishor Kodwani & Others Vs District Collector, Indore & Others dated 07/10/2013 regarding felling of 3152 trees which were coming within the expansion of the BRTS Corridor in the city of Indore. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/19-2013(CZ)(OA)_7Oct2013.pdf
Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility argues that the development of sustainable urban transport systems requires a conceptual leap. The purpose 'transportation' and 'mobility' is to gain access to destinations, activities, services and goods. Thus access is the ultimate objective of transportation. As a result, urban planning and design …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Centre for Environment Protection, Research & Development Vs State of Madhya Pradesh dated 27/09/2013 on steps taken during the past seven years on containing and reducing the pollution levels in the city of Indore. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/1-2013(CZ)(OA)_27Sep2013.pdf
"In India, use of bicycle is still not encouraged much. However, in countries like Denmark and Netherland, bicycles are extensively used and are even considered a convenient means of transportation," said a New Delhi-based expert on transport, Anvita Arora. She was addressing a seminar jointly organized by Indore-based NGO Rupankan …
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) plans to purchase 665 buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Bapu Gaikwad, assistant transport planner of the civic traffic cell, said, “The Union government has sent letters to various cities, including Pimpri Chinchwad, informing them that it had extended …
The major cities of Amritsar and Ludhiana are all set to acquire the internationally recognised bus rapid transport system (BRTS) with Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal giving his nod to replicate this system in Punjab, after he studied the BRTS in Turkey. An official release said Sukhbir today conducted …
Refurbishing It Will Waste Taxpayers’ Money, Say Experts New Delhi: Five years after the bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor was constructed, the transport department is looking at “overhauling” the 14.5km stretch. A proposal to refurbish the corridor at a cost of Rs 10-15 crore has been submitted to the department …
For most Puneites, traffic and transport pose the worst kind of problems. The clamour for a metro and a more effective Bus Rapid Transit System is growing, but urban planners and experts have warned that investments in both modes would be wasted if access to these public transport systems is …
Despite The Expansion, User Numbers Not Increasing The BRTS has had a rather empty beginning in the walled city. The service is failing to draw large numbers of passengers. On the stretch from Ellisbridge to Sarangpur, an average of about 800 passengers board these buses every day. Even the Delhi …
The City’s hopes of getting a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) may have floundered in red tape, but the State government has offered Bangaloreans a fresh ray of hope that BRTS can be made a reality. The government, recently started the process of preparing a detailed project report (DPR) on …
