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: Hours after the CRRI report criticizing the BRT corridor became public on Tuesday, the Delhi government had rushed to the Supreme Court filing a special leave petition but failed to secure any relief. Upset with the findings, the government approached the apex court, arguing against mixed traffic usage …
AHMEDABAD: On demand bus schedules on SMS, bus ticket top-ups over internet, GPS-based surveillance, and an efficient e-ticketing system. No, it's not a wish list. Rather, it's a list of promises made to Amdavadis three years back, on the launch of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS). The citizens were assured …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said 14 other proposed bus rapid transport (BRT) corridors, which were to come up in different locations in the city, have been put on hold. This comes after the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) submitted a report to the Delhi High Court on Monday …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Delhi Government to apprise it by July 23 of its views on the Central Road Research Institute’s recommendation to open up the BRT corridor to vehicles other than buses to ease traffic jam along the dedicated stretch. Taking a contrary view to …
The Delhi government on Wednesday asked for more time from the Delhi High Court to go through the Central Road Research Institute’s (CRRI) report that has favoured scrapping of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor. The court fixed July 23 for the next hearing, asking the government to respond to …
Notwithstanding the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) criticising the BRT corridor in south Delhi, the Delhi government on Tuesday resolved not to scrap it and hinted that it would undertake more such projects. Delhi chief secretary P.K. Tripathi said government was determined to go ahead with the project as the …
New Delhi: A day after the court-mandated report by Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) recommended a non-BRT solution for the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand stretch, chief minister Sheila Dikshit said that Delhi government would approach the Supreme Court if the Delhi high court accepts CRRI’s suggestion to scrap the corridor. “Some people …
Report To HC Backs Mixed Traffic Lanes. After examining various scenarios on the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand bus rapid transit corridor, the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) has pronounced that “the no-BRT option yields better benefits for this corridor”. It submitted its final report on Monday to the Delhi high court and …
Rejects Claim That It Serves Large Number Of Bus Users New Delhi: The Delhi government’s argument for continuing with the bus rapid transit corridor — that it serves a large number of commuters travelling by bus — has been shot down by the report compiled by the Central Road Research …
Irrespective of drawing severe criticism from every quarter in the city due to its flawed design, the Delhi Government has refused to budge from its avowed stance on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridor. Its officials are busy devising ways and means to protect the Corridor, despite the traffic gridlock …
Will Include Suggestions By Several Government Agencies In Its Report New Delhi: Days before the BRT case comes up for hearing, the Central Road Research Institute is flooded with “advice” from the transport department and other government agencies on the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand bus rapid transit corridor. CRRI, which had been …
A week after the Delhi High Court directed the Delhi Government to open the BRT corridor for mixed use, the authorities are yet to comply with its order. The traffic on the BRT route continues to flow in the dedicated lane pattern. While the officials of the transport department are …
New Delhi: In 2007 Delhi was in the middle of its own Chipko Movement. Hundreds of residents were out on the streets protesting the indiscriminate felling of trees to make way for its BRT corridor. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit offered an olive branch to Delhiites, a tree authority with a …
Mayor Krishna Gaur along with the officials of BMC visited BRTS corridor and over bridge at Habibganj Railway Station, here on Friday. During the visit she instructed the officials concerned to finish the work within the given time. Further she asked them to present a report to her on the …
The Delhi high court on Thursday directed the city government’s transport department to retain, till its final order, the arrangement that allowed plying of all vehicles in the lane reserved for buses on the BRT corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand Hospital in south Delhi. The division bench of Acting …
Let it be reopened, says High Court. The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Delhi government to allow all vehicles to use the lane reserved for buses on the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) corridor between Amdedkar Nagar and Moolchand in South Delhi. It observed that traffic on the route …
The Punjab government has launched public welfare oriented mega project of Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) in the City, but without holding any public moot or proper survey of environmental impact of plying diesel-run buses on the City routes, sources informed TheNation. They further said that the above-mentioned project might …
The Delhi High Court on Thursday will hear a plea against the Delhi Government for its refusal to CRRI’s request to allow mixed vehicle use on the BRT corridor till submission of the final report. The High Court on the basis of CRRI’s interim report had mandated the CRRI with …
This report provides principles to foster effective decision making in national mass transit investment programs. Examples of practices from the 13 existing programs that are likely to generate more complete information about the projects’ benefits, costs, and risks illustrate each principle, with an emphasis on practices that can be widely …
This study is in response to the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Case filed by M/s Nyaya Bhoomi, versus Government of NCT of Delhi, as the Honourable High Court, Delhi had passed the order directing the Transport Department, GNCTD for carrying out an evaluation of the BRTS corridor and to report …
