Urban 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 …

Gammons trouble may hit BMRC

Gayathri Nivas and S Praveen Dhaneshkar, Bangalore: The decision of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to issue show-cause notice to Gammon India may have implications for Namma Metro. The reason being that the Mumbai-based firm has been contracted for some of the construction work by the Bangalore Metro Rail …

CNG buses pilot project gets going

There would be 50 CNG buses covering two routes initially. Two different manufacturers, each providing 25 buses, have made these CNG buses locally. The CDGK has already paid the full cost for the buses. The purpose of putting CNG buses on the roads is to ensure that the citizens were …

PM nod to CNG for city

July 26: The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has given the green signal to switch over to the CNG transport system in order to stem vehicle pollution in Hyderabad. Dr Singh agreed to the Chief Minister

Govt stoops to cut bus cost

May Allow Half The Fleet In Cluster To Be Semi Low-Floor With the corporatization of the Blueline fleet yet to take off, the government may decide to allow private operators to have semi-low floor buses as half of the fleet instead of the low-floor buses to bring down costs. In …

Time to go, Mr Sreedharan

It is impossible to replicate the Delhi Metro model Sunil Jain / New Delhi July 20, 2009, 0:04 IST Till even a few days ago, if you took a poll, despite the recent string of disasters in the Delhi Metro

Maytas to bid again for Metro

July 18: Maytas Infra decided on Saturday to bid for the Rs 12,132-crore Hyderabad Metro Rail project again after being ejected out of it a week ago.

PMC plans yet another transport plan for city

Pune Even after preparing more than 20 reports on city

Fresh cloud over Navi Mumbai Metro

Mumbai The first Metro project of Navi Mumbai appears to have run into a fresh roadblock, long before work has begun. The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) is reconsidering whether to opt for a Metro rail or to resume the suburban rail project it had opted against. CIDCO managing …

CAG pulls up Delhi Metro

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has observed that Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) had scaled down its testing requirements in four cases, company representatives did not witness the tests in eight cases, and that it tested material in non-accredited laboratories and did not preserve the reports. These tests were …

Second phase of BRT to open from Sept. 1

The second phase of the pilot Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor connecting Moolchand to Delhi Gate will open from September 1. Delhi government on Friday decided to open the remaining stretch of the first corridor in which the buses will ply on the left side from Moolchand to Delhi Gate. …

DMRC under CAG fire on land use, financing policies

New Delhi: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) chief Ellatuvalapil Sreedharan may have sparked off a nation-wide debate last year on whether allowing commercial exploitation of land by private metro rail developers as in the Hyderabad Metro Rail project was akin to

14 BRTS buses ply city roads on trial run

AHMEDABAD: For the first time on Wednesday, about 14 BRTS buses were operated on the corridor on a schedule table. The bus frequency was fixed at a bus every five minutes and then taken to three to four minutes during peak hour timings. Though Global Positioning System (GPS) was installed …

DMRC to prepare detailed plan

KOCHI: With only one more hurdle before the Kochi Metro Rail project, the authorities of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), the implementing agency for the project, has decided to prepare a detailed execution plan for the project. A meeting convened by DMRC Chairman E Sreedharan in Kochi on Wednesday …

Up to the Cabinet now

KOCHI: What is the first and foremost requirement to start the work of the Metro Rail project? It

METRO: First rake to arrive in October

Mumbai Mumbaikars will get their first glimpse of the Metro rail this October when the first rake will be shipped from Shanghai, China, for a trial run on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar link. The trial run of the four-coach rake will be held on a 100-metre stretch between D N Nagar and …

New impetus to transport plans

Mumbai With UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi calling for expediting infrastructure projects in the city during the inauguration of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, the state government has swung into action to chalk out a new financial model for the 22.5-km Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL). The government had put off the …

AP scraps metro rail project with Maytas Infra

The Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday scrapped the Rs 12,132 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail Project contract awarded to Maytas Infra. Minister of Municipal Administration and Urban Development Anam Rama Narayana Reddy said that a Cabinet meeting would be held on July 13 to decide whether to go for global retendering.

YSR aborts Rajus Metro dream ride

July 7: The state government has finally ejected the scam-hit Maytas and the consortium it heads from the Hyderabad Metro Rail project. After extending the deadline for financial closure several times, the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, on Tuesday directed officials to cancel the concession agreement signed with the …

Govts cure for sick state transport: 40,000 low-floor buses

New Delhi: In a move to improve public transport in rural areas and to help revive sick State Transport Undertakings (STUs) such as in Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, the road transport and highways ministry has mooted a proposal to provide them 40,000 low floor buses. The proposal …

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