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 …
JLL has listed out 10 things that citizens expect from these Smart Cities. The government last month revealed names of the first 20 smart cities that will get Rs 50,802 crore over five years to become ‘Smart Cities’. The cities will be given funds to solve problems from power cuts …
Emergency services in the capital may soon have to rely on choppers, the Delhi high court observed on Thursday, commenting on the increasing traffic in the city. A division bench, comprising Justices B D Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva, made the remark after learning from traffic police that at least 14 …
Today if you dare to walk down Ahmedabad's busy IIM-Keshavbaugh or Mani nagar road stretches during peak hours you will be exposed to a level of pollution that is almost 10 to 12 times more toxic than what is acceptable under the current central pollution control board standards. What is …
SMP2.0 has been collaborating with six cities to test and refine its methodology and tools for integrated sustainable urban mobility planning. Indore has been one of the six cities and has worked with Ford Motors (lead), BMW Group, Feedback Brisa Highways (Ezeeway), Volkswagen and Fujitsu from July 2014. This report …
PWD Minister Satyendar Jain, along with civic engineers, will visit Malaysia to study its bus corridors week after starting the dismantling process of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridor from Ambedkar Nagar to Moolchand, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday announced that the city will have elevated BRT corridors. …
The bus rapid transit corridor, launched with much fanfare in 2008 and which soon became the bane of car drivers in south Delhi, will get a ceremonial farewell on Tuesday . Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia will inaugurate its dismantling at 2pm from Madangir, while the actual work will start …
Ahmedabad: Cyclists and pedestrians have always been given the short shrift in this city , even though the Rs 1,200 crore transport corridor, designed on the lines of world-class Brazilian Curitiba and Sao Paulo BRTS, had promised comfort and safety for this vulnerable sector of road users. Former deputy prime …
Work on dismantling the 5.8-km stretch will begin from January 18; it was built at a cost of Rs.150 crore in 2008 by the then Congress government By February, Delhi’s only Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor will be history. The Delhi government had decided to dismantle the BRT corridor in …
AHMEDABAD: When the first presentation on the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) was made at the GCCI building on Ashram Road, tall claims of a significant modal shift from car and two-wheeler users to the "world class transportation system" were made. However, some 36 months ago, a survey interviewing 10,040 …
Tendering Process Begins; Work In Two Phases At A Cost Of Nearly Rs 12cr The capital's misadventure with the BRT corridor may finally come to an end with the city government set to start dismantling it from early January . PWD has started the tendering process and work will take …
The Transport and Communications Bulletin for Asia and the Pacific is published once a year by the Transport Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The main objectives of the Bulletin are to provide a medium for the sharing of knowledge, experience, ideas, policy …
Dust displaced in the air is becoming an increasing cause of breathing related problems among children and old-age persons as is evident from the rise in patients reporting at government and private hospitals with such symptoms. Doctors at Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs Memorial Civil Hospital and Guru Nanak Dev Hospital said …
A majority of respondents want Rockfort and Thillainagar area for the project The Thillai Nagar-Rockfort area is likely to be taken up for retrofitting under the Smart City Plan for Tiruchi. Area-based retrofitting (development of an existing area of 500 acres) will be one major component of the Smart City …
Motor vehicle, air pollution, Bharat Stage Delhi’s unbreathable air, with particulate matter levels more than four times permissible levels in 22 of November’s 30 days, certainly calls for emergency measures. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s odd-even scheme, whereby odd-numbered cars can only be used on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, has …
The Delhi government on Tuesday approved an estimate of around Rs11 crore to scrap the controversial bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor in south Delhi built by the previous Sheila Dikshit government for around Rs 150 crore to encourage public transport. In July this year, the Kejriwal government had taken decision …
The ambitious Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project is nowhere near completion. Travelling on city roads especially on a two-wheeler has become a nightmare. Besides leading to traffic jams the ongoing construction and digging work has multiplied dust pollution in the city manifold. It poses a serious health hazard to …
As Delhi grapples with congested roads and the increasing volume of traffic, its PWD minister has an interesting take on the problem. Satyendar Jain says that the city has sufficient road length required to accommodate the 82 lakh registered vehicles, but poor road engineering has let the traffic managers down. …
Delhi is dangerous for cyclists. Last year 820 out 1,629 traffic fatalities were of people on bicycles. This year, the Delhi Traffic Police says that cyclists account for 330 of the 750 fatalities till now. But this is not surprising. A glance at any street indicates the government's priorities on …
Chhattisgarh is all set to adopt the US model of developing dedicated Public Transport corridors in its cities. The development of a highly evolved Public Transport System with dedicated corridors, will begin from the road connecting Swami Vivekananda Airport to Raipur city, said Chhattisgarh’s Urban Administration and Development Minister Amar …
The existing bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor in Delhi is widely criticized but experts agree that Delhi's traffic woes can only end by improving the bus service and creating a wide network of BRTs. There's a new proposal now to let buses run in the extreme left lane along with …
