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 …
A bus rapid transit system is a bus route that operates in a dedicated lane, where passengers pay prior to boarding at boarding stations. Bus rapid transit systems can provide a number of environmental, economic, and social benefits in cities where they are implemented. In order to promote the use …
Traffic and Transportation Policies and Strategies in Urban Areas in India was conducted in 1994 to establish the urban transport scenario and forecast the anticipated issues that would most likely crop up in the future. Further to this, a National Urban Transport Policy was approved in 2006 to help in …
The dramatic projected rise in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Asian [and wider] cities poses a major challenge for the world. Population growth, increased urbanisation, the rise of megacities, increased average incomes and consumption mean that travel demand is rising rapidly. The supply of transport funding and infrastructure to meet …
A project meant to carve out a bus corridor and give pedestrians and cyclists designated space on a 16 km stretch of road in Delhi has resulted in outbursts of anger and acrimony by middle class car owners. Called the bus rapid transit system or the BRT, the roject is …
The India Infrastructure Report 2008 discusses: competitive bidding models for infrastructure projects and critical factors required for a minimum subsidy model to succeed; models on auction bidding for rural infrastructure, e-governance, and multi-channel delivery mechanism; tolling and payment mechanism models for roads, railways, and airports; models for public service financing …
Transport volumes and structures in China change drastically as a result of economic and social development in the country. These changes are associated with increasing energy consumption and negative impacts on the environment, e.g. emissions of greenhouse gases and toxic air pollutants affecting not only the micro and macro climate …
This Writ Petition arrays a range of legal concerns relating to the ongoing road widening programme in Bangalore and exposes that such actions are opposed to settled legal norms relating to management and conservation of urban greenery. In addition it is submitted that the road widening programmes are being advanced …
A mechanical snag in a vehicle on much-criticised corridor has caused a major traffic jam near Panchsheel Enclave on Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand corridor this morning. There was no arrangement of cranes to remove the vehicle from the car track. It was 10.20 am when the Tata Sumo stopped on the track …
Environment activists on Monday met Municipal Commissioner Praveensinh Pardeshi to protest against the Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) proposal of constructing more flyovers in the city, saying that these flyovers do not help improve the overall traffic situation and therefore urged the civic body to withdraw the proposal. The voluntary organisations, …
As per schedule, the Delhi Metro conducted trial runs on the first section of Phase II between Shahdara and Dilshad Garden, covering the 3.1 km stretch on Sunday. Three trial runs were conducted successfully between 10 am and 1 pm on this section.
Despite jams on the controversial Bus Rapid Transit corridor in the Capital, transport authorities on Sunday claimed that the situation had improved since the trial runs began last Sunday. Transport Commissioner R. K. Verma said: "The traffic flow on Sunday was smooth and improving. We are still working on changing …
Delhi need not despair. The expensive traffic mess that goes by the name of the Bus Rapid Transit corridor has also left a similar, unwelcome mark on another city in the country. Inaugurated with great fanfare in December 2006 in Pune, the BRT corridor there has now been categorically slotted …
In an accident where both the vehicle are at fault, the liability to compensate lies more with the bigger one, an Accident Claims Tribunal has ruled. In case of a collision of a car and motorcycle, both of which had faulted, "blameworthiness" should be made out as per the horse …
The chaos prevailing in the Bus Rapid Transit corridor during the trial runs notwithstanding, experts associated with the project maintain that the system takes care of the travelling needs of every type of road user and is safer and easier than the existing traffic management systems. They, however, concede that …
Transmilenio. That is the name of a success story told daily by 1.4 million people in Colombia's capital Bogota. These people are the commuters of the bus rapid transit (BRT) system there, which has 850 buses covering 85 km. It has reduced the travel time by 32 per cent, accidents …
Claiming an "improvement' in the traffic situation on the 5.6-km Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand section of the controversial new Bus Rapid Transport corridor following some fine-tuning of the signalling system, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday announced several new measures to reduce the travel time for private vehicles through the corridor. …
The Central Railway (CR) on Thursday launched the 'GO Mumbai' smartcard, a first-of-its-kind travel card which works like a pre-paid telephone card, and can be used for travel on the main line of CR, its Harbour line and BEST buses. "This is a red-letter day. A journey begins with buying …
The standing committee of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday passed the proposal to engage Urban Mass Transport Company (UMTC) for preparation of a masterplan for various parking projects in Mumbai. These parking projects are to be developed under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) module and will be carried out …
The Delhi Government is hunting desperately for a fig leaf after the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) fiasco. The Centre has washed its hand of, while the Chief Minister is trying hard to fix responsibility for a system that has left the capital city with massive traffic jams just in its …
The BRT corridor has gone bust. Yes, that's the resounding message from two days of chaotic trials on the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand stretch. What else can explain the decision of a panicky government to let in taxis and autos into the corridor dedicated to buses! If the BRT architects are willing …
