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. …
A group of IIT graduates in Fazilka are celebrating the success of the eco-cab as a environment-friendly public transport service A group of IIT graduates in the remote south-western Punjab city of Fazilka are celebrating the success of the eco-cab
The just out Economic Survey of Pakistan notes that although air quality in many of our cities is bad, studies conducted in Lahore and Karachi show that carbon monoxide, cadmium and lead levels in these cities far exceed the internationally accepted threshold limits. An estimated 60 to 70 percent pollution …
Officers of Kolkata police and a section of the city-based environmentalists feel that the conversion of two-stroke auto rickshaws into four-strokes LPG mode might get delayed as the Opposition parties ~ who had earlier opposed phasing out of two-stroke auto rickshaws from Kolkata ~ would now oppose the drive with …
onthespot KATATEL OUTLETS The outlet near 8B bus stop Outlets selling katatel, a toxic mixture of petrol, kerosene and naphtha used to run autorickshaws, continue to thrive in the city with the police looking the other way. Metro spotted three outlets of the killer fuel in south Calcutta. Where: Near …
Devesh K. Pandey NEW DELHI: Taking a break from routine car rides and padyatras, the Congress candidate for the Lok Sabha from Chandni Chowk, Kapil Sibal, came up with a novel idea on Monday campaigning on a solar-powered rickshaw in the narrow lanes of the Walled City of Delhi. Much …
To enforce discipline and reduce congestion on roads, the traffic police have initiated steps to ban autorickshaws, registered outside Ranchi, from plying within the municipal area.
Administration forms panel to look into demands; union says will operate till committee takes a decision After remaining off roads for five days, autorickshaw operators have finally called off their strike against the ban imposed on the entry of non-LPG autos in Chandigarh. The decision was taken after a meeting …
The UT administration has decided to seal its borders for petrol/diesel-run auto-rickshaws coming from Mohali and Panchkula from tomorrow. The administration has also notified that these auto-rickshaws would be impounded from tomorrow onwards if they ply in Chandigarh. This means that the tricity residents could be in for trouble without …
KOLKATA, Mach 31: In a new twist to recent controversies surrounding the phasing out of two-stroke autorickshaws in order to bring down the pollution levels, the public vehicles department (PVD) has found out that 17,000 autorickshaws were being plied in the city without valid documents. This has brought to light …
Pune The Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA) has blamed the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML), private bus operators and rickshaw drivers for the traffic chaos in the city. They called on the DCP Traffic Manoj Patil and the CMD of PMPML to take stringent action against …
KOLKATA, March 23: The state transport minister, Mr Subhas Chakraborty, admitted today that the state government have delayed a crackdown on the huge number of unregistered auto-rickshaws plying in the city and its outskirts due to anticipated stiff resistance from their operators. Mr Chakraborty said only 30,000 of the 45,000 …
KOLKATA, March. 19: Calcutta High Court's extension of deadline for phasing out petrol and diesel run auto rickshaws into LPG fuelled four stroke ones by a few months, does not seem to have pleased the auto-rickshaw operators. Leaders of auto-rickshaw operators union today said, even after the extension of the …
The concept of Soleckshaw owes its genesis to the realization that the dignity of human labour needs to be upheld and that all mechanical devices must be designed to decrease human labour and emission of pollutants. But human energy is the best non-pollutant as evident by the use of millions …
The rising level of pollution because of the influx of cars in the Capital has also been a cause of concern for Delhi High Court. While hearing a public interest litigation challenging the New Delhi Municipal Council's directive to ban cycle rickshaws in parts of the city, the Court slammed …
Abhishek Law KOLKATA, Jan. 29: Blame it on humanitarian grounds! The state government seems to have adopted this policy very industriously, and makes it a point to use it as a saving grace every time it fails to act on its own accord. Be it the demolition of illegal structures …
K.P. NAYAR IN WASHINGTON The National City Center in Troy, Michigan, where a hydrogen-powered autorickshaw plies Capitalist America, red rag to Citu, has a way out of Calcutta
A STAFF REPORTER Calcutta is ready to give up the rogue auto for the chance to breathe cleaner air, according to a poll commissioned by Metro. Sixty-seven per cent of the respondents to the poll, conducted by GfK MODE, said they supported the high court
