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 …
People seem to be disgusted or even ashamed when they see a bus with fewer than 50 people inside it. Let us recall some basic figures, that I will name
function openroad(){ var popurl="html/20030515_moreroads.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=600,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } Foremost among the traditional approaches governments take is to increase existing road capacity (see table: More roads...). But how effective is this method? New roads and flyovers invite more traffic and get filled up within a few years. Experts argue that drivers are induced …
A novel referendum by the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (smc) spelt doom for 122 trees. The civic body asked people to choose between the trees and traffic jams. In the voting, the roads won by a mile. The corporation prepared a list of the trees and obtained a no-objection certificate from …
"I have to have two cars to address my family's needs. To use public transport is an ordeal, and to use the streets as a pedestrian or cyclist is unthinkable. People in automobiles travel freely. Curbsides are filled with parked cars. Road space belongs to vehicles and the city belongs …
When roads become an extension of living rooms When Hannes Linck moved in August 1999 to Quartier Vauban, a newly-built neighbourhood in the southern German city of Freiburg, he decided to sell off his car. Hannes lives with his wife and two children in a flat built by a housing …
Whereas European cities are making an effort to return to walking and cycling through innovative ways of pedestrianisation and car-restraint policies, the tradition of cycling and walking is being squeezed out of Asian cities. Only Japan and Singapore are making some efforts to revive these practices. In Chinese cities, where …
T he Global Environmental Facility’s ( gef ) governing council meeting held in Washington dc , in early May, has approved grants totalling us $12 million for the first phase of two projects in India and China to facilitate the use of fuel cell buses ( fcb s). Both projects …
As governance formally surrendered the administration of Delhi to chaos on All Fools' Day, April 1, 2001, the fate of its citizens' health and public transport continued to hang in balance. Ministers and politicians had a field day blaming each other for the chaos and rioting that broke out on …
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has been launched by Govt. of lndia for promoting urban reforms and investments in the selected 63 cities of India. Ludhiana is one of the eligible cities. CDP is a requirement to access the funds under JNNURM as per the guidelines. A set …
in the 1960's, when the Netherlands' economy boomed and politicians promoted "a motor car for every labourer', bicycles were seen as the poor man's transport. But Luud Schimmelpenninck, then in his early twenties and a hippie, thought differently. Under his leadership, a group of rebellious student hippies launched Provo, a …
The transportation modes in Indian cities are multifarious with varying capacity and widely varying sizes and speeds. The objectives of this study are: to evolve alternative urban transport development policies and strategies at national, sate and city levels covering infrastructure development, traffic management, control and enforcement, public transport development and …
tomorrow's commuters may not travel to work in cars or underground railways, but in overhead carriages 16 feet above city streets. Called System 21, it differs from the conventional light rail transport system in that the trains travel above an overhead six feet steel beam. Futrex, a transport technology company …
THE Washington -based International Institute for Energy Conservation has recently compiled a report, Modeling Urban Transportation Emissions and Energy Use - Lessons for the Developing World. The report concludes that traffic modelling advances and challenging planning practices lay in technological evolutions like powerful low-cost microcomputers that would enable better systems …
The public sector Delhi Transport Corp (DTC), whose buses have a reputation for being polluting, has received an award by the Indian Oil Corp (IOC) for saving fuel. Presenting the award, instituted by IOC to encourage state transport authorities to conserve petroleum products, secretary to the ministry of surface transport …
EVEN AS Calcutta's transport authorities plan to phase out the tram, it is making a comeback in other parts of the world as technology's solution for a low-cost, non-polluting urban transport system. British firm JPM Parry and Associates has developed a modern tramway system, which does not require overhead wires …
THERE was this jeepney driver in the Philippines who, along with an exceptionally devout pastor, knocked on heaven's door for entry. St Peter went through their credentials and bestowed a heavenly smile on the driver, allowing him to pass through the pearly gates. But, to the pastor, St Peter said, …
IT'S a well-known fact that if people could be encouraged to get on their bikes, air pollution would decrease. Now a study published by the Cyclists Touring Club of Britain shows how the share of cycle use could be increased from the current four per cent to over 40 per …
The initial phase of UPA II witnessed prolific rule making, but this was not followed by responsible governance The United Progressive Alliance II (UPA II) and the Nano car arrived together in 2009. The frenzy of the new electoral win and the Nano, symbolising aspiration, made many smug. No one …
Indian cities were originally designed as compact entities to reduce travel trip length. But with rapid urbanization and motorization, our sprawling cities are becoming victims of killer pollution, congestion, and a crippling oil guzzling, car dependent infrastructure that endangers our quality of life. While sprawling cities, flyovers and signal- free …
