Intermediate Public Transport (IPT) caters to 17% of the daily trips in Lucknow. This short report offers an overview of IPT vehicles i.e. auto-rickshaws, tempos and e-rickshaws in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The team conducted a survey in Lucknow, covering 322 IPT drivers to understand their vehicular, operational and economic characteristics. …
NEW DELHI: Suggesting the imposition of a "congestion fee" on private cars entering certain parts of Delhi as one way to ease the nightmarish traffic situation on city roads, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday made a decisive intervention to regulate movement of vehicles in the capital. A full HC …
NEW DELHI: Cycle rickshaws can ply in the national capital without any curb on their number, the Delhi high court ruled on Wednesday, saying the Reversing an earlier verdict of its division bench, a full bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah quashed MCD's cap of 99,000 rickshaws on …
Text of Delhi high court judgement in response to petition filed by Manushi & ITD against MCD on limiting cycle rickshaw licenses.The court has directed Delhi government,MCD,DDA & Delhi Police to constitute a task force to explore for solutions to manage road traffic, minimize congestion, reduce vehicular pollution and ensure …
In a first of its kind effort to encourage technology-driven development at the grassroots, the science-related departments of the government got together to inform the states about indigenous technologies currently available in the country and how they can be utilised to solve everyday problems. Seven scientific departments, including the Department …
Ecocab is a new name given to traditional rickshaw operation by improving its accessibility and quality.With an idea to strengthen existing unorganized network of cycle rickshaw as a post modern technology in the area of Intermediate Public Transport System for the Fazilka. Five Ecocab call centers are established within the …
There is finally some respite for cycle rickshaws from the Delhi High Court. Recently the chief justice bench while hearing a petition on lifting of ban on cycle rickshaws on the main arteries of Delhi asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to submit an action plan for cycle rickshaws …
They will come in the way of efforts to make Delhi a world-class city: Police Old World Charm: The good old cycle-rickshaw, the plying of which was opposed by the Delhi police in an affidavit filed in the Delhi High Court, has drawn censure from the Bench. NEW DELHI: The …
PRASHANT PANDEY Nov. 16: Cycle rickshaws in the city may get registered like other commercial motorised vehicles as the lieutenant governor has asked the Municipal Corp-oration of Delhi to redraft their rickshaw policy. The rickshaws may be categorised along the lines of slabs made for property tax. Lieutenant governor Tejendra …
Although the countdown for the 2010 Commonwealth Games has already started, the public transport system of the city has miles to go before it could match the international standard. Even transport department is far away from sticking to the rule book, Delhi Motor Vehicles Act 1993, to regulate public transport. …
Finally, commuters can hope for some relief from being fleeced by autorickshaw drivers on the city roads. The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) is exploring how tamper-proof auto fare meters can be designed and the authority is expected to submit its report in the next three months. Transport department officials …
EPCA Examines Role Of Financiers To Break Stranglehold New Delhi: The autorickshaw autocracy in the capital may just come to an end soon. The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) is reviewing whether cap on total number of autorickshaws in Delhi, fixed at 55,000 by the Supreme Court, should be revised. …
After the pink auto rickshaws called 'Tuk-Tuk', the city administration is now looking for a new avatar of cycle rickshaws. It has asked a university here to modernise the good old pollution-free vehicle and present it as an attractive option for tourists in the coming months. "Chandigarh administration has assigned …
Transporters today failed to get a Supreme Court stay on the ban on commercial vehicles over 15 years of age from August 1. Calcutta should be able to breathe easy. But can it?
Almost the entire public transport system may disappear from Friday if the operators go ahead with the indefinite strike. Metro narrates the consequences and focuses on the issues at stake and the parties involved. What could be off the street? Around 12,000 buses; 3,500 minibuses; 2,000 contract carriages (including school …
The government is making a hush-hush move to give two-stroke autos an escape route. The writ so far, ruled by court pressure, was to scrap all polluting two-stroke autos and allow only four-stroke single-mode LPG ones to ply on city streets. Now, the administration is plotting the conversion of two-stroke …
Supreme Court on Tuesday assigned federal and provincial environment departments the task of exploring a way out for providing financial assistance to the owners wherever needed for conversion of 'carbon emitting' buses and auto rickshaws into environment friendly vehicles running on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as fuel. The apex court …
The high court on Monday directed the government to allow conversion of a two-stroke autorickshaw to battery mode. The private firm doing the switchover would send the three-wheeler to the Automotive Research Association of India to ascertain its feasibility, the court added. The conversion, by Tara International, has to be …
