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 …
The long-delayed Satellite Town Ring Road (STRR) project to connect Bangalore’s satellite towns - Ramanagar, Dobbespet, Devanahalli, Hoskote, Attibele and Magadi will be implemented by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the State Public Works Department (PWD). While NHAI will develop the stretch between Dobbespet and Hoskote via …
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 …
Engineering consultancy firm, RITES, has suggested construction of a three-lane flyover parallel to the existing one on Rao Tula Ram (RTR) Marg to decongest the stretch. The firm, hired by the Delhi government to suggest ways for improving traffic movement on the 7-km stretch of Outer Ring Road from IIT …
ERP Remains Controversial But It Has Been Effective In Singapore New Delhi: In Singapore, when you drive down from Woodlands to Raffles Place via Yishun during peak hours, a beep on the lower right hand side of your windscreen will tell you that the ride cost you 15 Singapore dollars. …
GUWAHATI, July 2 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today urged Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to immediately release Rs 11,316 crore as immediate and medium term assistance to the state to bail out the State from the crisis it is facing due to floods and erosions. He demanded Rs 1100 …
To fix priorities for development of road links based on maximum utility, the Delhi Government has framed a draft policy on construction and maintenance of Master Plan roads. The policy proposes Master Plan roads to be handed over to Public Works Department and deficiency charges on Delhi Development Authority (DDA) …
Questions Raised On Surveys Too New Delhi: Almost a month after the Central Road Research Institute submitted an interim report on the revised traffic plan for the BRT corridor, the Delhi government and other transport agencies seem to be questioning the methodology applied for the study. Sources said questions over …
Plan To Keep 40km Vikaspuri-Noida Stretch Signal Free New Delhi: The Delhi government is now planning to make the drive from Vikaspuri to Noida signal free. The public works department is studying a plan to turn this 40km stretch into a red-lightfree zone. Out of this, the cabinet has already …
The crucial scientific study on the effectiveness of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridor enters the second phase with the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) conducting an opinion poll from Saturday. Starting April 21, the expert body will take the feedback from regular users of the Corridor and will gauge …
The UP government has decided to review all Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects in the state, including the ongoing ones like the Yamuna Expressway. Uttar Pradesh Industrial Development Commissioner Anil Kumar Gupta on Monday said all PPP projects in the state would be reviewed and decision on their future taken …
Following a Delhi High Court order, Delhi government has decided to carry out a fresh study on the BRT corridor’s utility. The study will be carried out by Central Roads Research Institute (CRRI). The institute will be given six weeks to complete the study. The terms of reference for the …
NEW DELHI: Private vehicles may soon be allowed to run on the dedicated bus lanes of the BRT on a temporary basis. The Delhi high court on Thursday ordered a fresh study on the effectiveness of the BRT corridor, asking the government to throw open the bus lanes to private …
With reference to the series titled ‘Scrap the trap’, you have claimed that ‘people want their road back’. However, do the people here include cyclists and bus commuters or only car/bike users? Without considering the opinions of the first two categories of road users, it would be at best an …
Travelling from Garia to Bongaon may just turn zippy, if the state government’s plan to connect the two with a 100km flyover, tipped to be India’s longest, succeeds. Urban development minister Firhad Hakim announced the project on the sidelines of a CII summit on Tuesday. He said a study had …
The Planning Commission cited shortage of funds as it punctured the Union Urban Development Ministry’s ambitious plans to popularise bicycle usage in metro cities. The Plan panel has refused to dole out Rs 150 crore to the Ministry for the Public Bicycle Scheme, which was proposed to be rolled out …
DIMTS Ready To Replicate Flawed Experiment Even As Govt Refuses To Allow People’s Participation In Decision-Making. The Delhi government decided to rechristen the bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor as integrated transit corridor in 2011, perhaps hoping to erase the memory of the ordeal Delhiites undergo everyday on the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand …
NEW DELHI: Deteriorating air quality in the national capital can translate into 3,000 additional "premature deaths" annually due to air pollution related diseases, the Centre for Science and Environment has said in a report. The report, submitted to the Delhi government, estimated that about 55 per cent of Delhi's population …
Founder member and trustee of Parisar, Sujit Patwardhan, is working hard to bring the environment issues to the forefront through citizens’ campaigns and collaborative activism with other like-minded organisations. The aim is to ensure that industrial and urban development does not lead to damage and destruction of the environment. He …
NEW DELHI: While planners blew up crores on redeveloping some roads in the run-up to Commonwealth Games two years ago, most roads in the city are still without basic pedestrian facilities such as continuous pavements and crossovers. There has been little or no implementation of design guidelines for pedestrian facilities …
NEW DELHI: The government has turned to history to find a solution to the problem of parking at Khan Market. A multilevel parking lot will be set up here, which will be connected by a 40-foot wide road that existed in 1922. To this effect, the Land & Development Office …
