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. …
Chandigarh: The Chandigarh Administration has decided to phase out all petrol and diesel-run autorickshaws by August. They will be run by LPG now. Secretary (Transport) Ram Niwas, who is also the UT Home Secretary, made the announcement while inaugurating the 20th National Road Safety Week in Chandigarh on Thursday. Ram …
Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to extend the deadline for old and polluting autorickshaws. The three-wheeler phaseout was to happen in three phases
It has been touted as a solution to urban India's traffic woes, chronic pollution and fossil fuel dependence, as well as an escape from backbreaking human toil. A state-of-the-art, solar-powered version of the humble cycle-rickshaw promises to deliver on all this and more. The "soleckshaw," unveiled this month in New …
Solar power: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Union Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal riding a solar-electric rickshaw after launching it in Delhi on Thursday. NEW DELHI: Solar-powered rickshaws called green rickshaws were introduced in Chandni Chowk here on Thursday as part of a pilot project. Each of these …
The provincial transport minister, Akhtar Hussain Jadoon, said that permits for old rickshaws could be renewed till June 30, 2010 provided they used silencers which produced relatively less noise and emission as introduced by the Rickshaw Owners' Association (ROA). He was speaking to an ROA delegation that called on him …
June 29: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will soon begin a pilot project to test the efficacy of its new rickshaw policy. The standing committee is soon to approve a proposal to launch the rickshaw policy in the Sadar Paharganj and City zone areas. The project to be executed …
THE bicycle rickshaws that weave through New Delhi's narrow lanes have long been scorned by authorities here for congesting the city's already fierce traffic. The creaking carriages crawl alongside luxury sedans, book hawkers, horse-drawn carts, hulking buses and cows, said a report published in The Washington Post. In this city …
National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has so far handed over about 50,000 environment friendly CNG rickshaws worth more than Rs 5.5 billion to applicants all over Pakistan under its Rozgar scheme. This was stated by the Group Chief Consumer Banking NBP Aamir Siddiqui in an interview here Monday. He said …
Among the great cities of the world, Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal and the home of nearly 15 million people, is often mentioned as the only one that still has a large fleet of hand-pulled rickshaws. April 2008
Chandan Kumar, the main designer of the Chandra Rath, talks about the vehicle in crisp technical parlance which he picked up in the last two years at DCE. The fact that he pulled a rickshaw in Allahabad till three years ago only reassures that crossing hurdles to make it big …
more than 80 per cent of Delhi's cycle-rickshaws are facing a dead end. This is because the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (mcd) reintroduced the licensing system for these non-polluting vehicles on March 8. The system was suspended two-and-a-half years ago on the directions of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The …
On January 5, 2003 hundreds of rickshaw pullers in Hyderabad got together to declare: "Protect our right on roads.' The city was hosting the Asian Social Forum and some 500-rickshaw pullers from different cities and towns had decided to use the occasion to organise in an informal but cohesive way …
authorities are mulling over a policy to control Delhi's ubiquitous cycle rickshaw traffic. But whether this is the answer to the woes of rickshaw pullers or of slow-moving traffic in the capital is the moot question. A high-level committee constituted by the state on November 13 is to submit its …
after many years of pulling the traditional rickshaw, 48-year-old Hira Lal is a much relieved person. He is a proud owner of a new model of cycle rickshaw that was recently introduced in his city, Agra in Uttar Pradesh. He says that the effort that had to be put in …
