Urban Roads

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of waste in a canal in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …

Corporation to develop model roads in Coimbatore

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation is planning to convert three major stretches in the city into model roads at Rs.5.5 crore. The scheme and the allocation of funds were announced in the Corporation

Causal analysis of car CO2 emissions and urban infrastructure using structural equation modeling

The present study examined the relationship between urban land use and car transportation. The results derived from applications of the structural equations modeling revealed that suburbanization directly caused a proportional increase in car ownership and construction of roads, and in turn, indirectly increased the carbon dioxide emissions from cars. This …

Smart signals on road to 2010

New Delhi: These are traffic signals with brains. They take a volume count of the number of vehicles at an intersection and automatically adjust the available green signal time on the basis of changing traffic demand. And the good news is that Intelligent Traffic Signals (ITS) are going to become …

Low temperature of hot mix to blame for poor roads: MCD

NEW DELHI: Having drawn the flak for the sorry state of several of its roads, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday blamed the alleged failure of Central Pollution Control Board to prescribe norms to the civic body for construction of eco-friendly hot mix plants in the Capital since the …

Priority for education and health care in MCD budget

NEW DELHI: Delhi Municipal Commissioner K. S. Mehra presented revised budget estimates for the current financial year and budget estimates for the next fiscal in respect of the general wing and slum and jhuggi-jhonpri wing of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Friday. The proposed expenditure during 2009-10 has been …

Haryana to spend 98 crore on roads

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government is going to spend Rs.98.81crore on repair and reconstruction of roads in Gurgaon. Out of this, Rs.78.84 crore will be spent by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) and Rs.19 crore by the Municipal Corporation, Haryana Chief Secretary Dharamvir announced on Monday. Reviewing various development works …

Renewed bid to get green clearance for Peddar Rd flyover

Mumbai, September 21 After failing to get environmental clearance for the city

Work on resurfacing major roads to start soon

Staff Reporter NEW DELHI: Municipal Corporation of Delhi Standing Committee chairman Vijender Gupta has announced that the civic body will soon start work on strengthening and resurfacing of major roads in the city. Mr. Gupta has directed the executive engineers to ensure that the drainage system begins working properly before …

MCD sets up committee to oversee road repair

Staff Reporter To ensure that the work of repair is completed within 10 days A view of the badly damaged road at Azadpur in Delhi following heavy rain. NEW DELHI: Under pressure from various quarters for its failure to repair potholes on the Capital's roads following tall promises, the Municipal …

Rs 500 crore more on the way to help improve city roads

Pune, August 19 In a major relief to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), the Union government on Tuesday approved Rs 511 crore additional funds for roadwork, including BRTS, being implemented under JNNURM. Of this, the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) roads get Rs 165 crore though there are only about 50 days …

Waterlogging panel formed

Tribune News Service New Delhi, August 8 Leader of the house in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Subhash Arya and Standing Committee chairperson Vijender Gupta have said that the MCD has appointed a high power co-ordination committee under the chairmanship of Mayor Arti Mehra to monitor waterlogging on the …

Unravelling myths about subsidies in urban transport

Is urban public transport subsidised more than its private counterpart? Through a case study of urban transport in Pune, this article demonstrates that car and two-wheeler users receive larger subsidies than bus users when all costs imposed by transport modes are considered.

Roads in bad shape do not belong to MCD: Mayor

NEW DELHI: Delhi Mayor Arti Mehra has urged Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to look into the miserable condition of roads maintained by the Public Works Department in the Capital. Addressing a press conference here, Ms. Mehra said: "The Chief Minister and her government have criticised the poor maintenance of roads …

Panipat flyover opens

Will save fuel worth Rs 15 lakh daily: Baalu Manish Sirhindi Tribune News Service Panipat, July 16 To ease out congestion in the city on the NH-1, the 10 km Panipat elevated highway that includes a 3.4 km flyover on the North-South Corridor was today inaugurated by union minister for …

Road widening works: Tree felling needs clearance

Bangalore: The road widening projects proposed for City by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will now have to go through the scanner of a seven-member Review Committee headed by environmentalist A N Yellappa Reddy, to check on its environmental and social sustainability. A city NGO Environment Support Group (ESG)'s president …

Panipat flyover to open on July 17

It's official now. The much-awaited Panipat flyover on the National Highway No 1 is finally going to be inaugurated on July 17. The flyover that was expected to be opened for vehicular traffic in the first week of June got delayed due to certain reasons. The bridge would now be …

Bigger Bypass to tackle jam

If driving past the Ruby rotary on the EM Bypass during peak hours leaves you on the edge, the good news is that you won't have a bad time on that road every day for the rest of your life. The Bypass will be expanded from two to four lanes …

Nod for Science City twin - Clone in Barasat in lieu of Bypass acres

Science City, on EM Bypass. A Telegraph picture Firemen fight the flames at Saqi Bar on Sunday. Picture by Sanat Kumar Sinha The state will get its second Science City in Barasat. The National Council of Science Museums, which runs the Bypass Science City, has agreed to set up the …

KMDA to set up second flyover in Baghajatin

The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) would be taking up the construction of a second flyover at Baghajatin for faster movement of traffic along the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass. The project is a part of the agency's move to add to the speed of vehicles particularly those bound for airport from …

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