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: The Delhi chief minister on Sunday ruled out any rollback of the 5% VAT on CNG proposed in this year’s budget. CM Sheila Dikshit, while speaking to media persons, reiterated that the government would not succumb to pressure from the opposition benches to defer the tax on CNG. …
The BJP has called a Delhi bandh on Thursday to protest rising prices, including that of petrol, and imposition of VAT on CNG by the state government. The BJP-led NDA has called a nationwide bandh on the same day against the increase in the price of petrol. All prominent business …
New Delhi: In a fresh twist in the PIL being heard by the Delhi high court on utility of the BRT corridor, another NGO has moved court against scrapping of the project. National Alliance of People’s Movement, an umbrella organization has sought to be heard as a party to the …
The Delhi High Court defended the Delhi government’s decision to make Global Positioning Systems (GPS) compulsory for autorickshaws in the city, by dismissing a challenge against the government’s authority to pass this order. The court said such power was given to the government under the Motor Vehicles Act. A division …
Slow & Steady, These Tours Show You Hidden Facets Of City And Enrich Experience New Delhi: It’s difficult, maybe impossible, to truly explore Delhi from the confines of a tour bus or through the rehearsed words of a guide. As the city evolves, it’s only natural that the ways of …
‘Only commuters can comprehend the hassle that Guwahatians have to go through engaging the service of an auto...’ Necessity, so the saying goes, is the mother of invention. Well, one of the latest inventions to have gestated out of necessity is the flying car, set to hit the roads as …
To bridge the gap between commuters and Metro stations, eco-friendly electric rickshaw service has been launched in the city. The state-of-the-art public transport system has been started by Green Wheels Private Ltd., a subsidiary of the Argentum Group. Branded as G-Rik, these eco-friendly electric vehicles will bring in a world-class …
New Delhi: The city has been fighting a losing battle against private vehicles but it had chosen to clamp down on the most eco-friendly mode of transport — cycle rickshaws — to prevent congestion. However, tri-cycles finally got some respite on Monday after the Supreme Court upheld their right to …
This paper, on the basis of a primary survey of cycle rickshaw pullers and rickshaw owners in Delhi, India, estimate the causal impact of the opening and extension of Delhi Metro on the rental rates of cycle rickshaws. The cycle rickshaw rental market provides employment opportunities for unskilled, assetless workers …
NAIROBI: The auto rickshaw may be losing its way in the transport debate in India, but the ubiquitous three-wheeler is being discussed in global forums as a possible option for sustainable transport. While autos lose out to cars in the Indian consciousness, but when it comes to sustainable urbanisation and …
MUMBAI: After autorickshaw drivers, cabbies are now demanding a fare hike after an increase in compressed natural gas (CNG) prices last week. Taxi union leader A L Quadros on Tuesday led a delegation to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Transport Autho- rity (MMRTA) secretary and submitted a memorandum demanding a Rs4 …
The Punjab secretary has issued orders to replace the two-stroke rickshaws with four-stroke ones or to convert the two-stroke into four-stroke. Two-stroke rickshaws will be banned after March 1, the Punjab secretary said in a notification. The government is of the view that two-stroke rickshaws caused environmental pollution, which could …
CNG prices have increased from Rs 31.47 to 33.10 per kilogram. Mahanagar Gas Limited has also increased commission for dealers from 87 paise to Rs 1.35 paise Mumbaikars may have to bear another pinch of inflation with demands of auto rickshaw and taxi fares hike after the price hike in …
The process of listing out authorised vendors for installation of GPS in autorickshaws is likely to begin soon. The autos will be fitted with GPS from March onwards, said officials from the transport department. Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transport System (DIMTS), which will carry out the empanelment process, said the entire …
GUWAHATI: In an effort to reduce pollution in the crowded streets of Guwahati, Rickshaw Bank Project of Centre for Rural Development (CRD) in association with Electroplus launched a solar-electric rickshaw called the Deep Bahan for urban transport today. CRD director Dr Pradip Kumar Sharma said that Deep Bahan, with its …
With the conflict between auto rickshaw unions and drivers on one hand and the commuters on the other increasing, imaginative solutions are being sought. One such proposal is using electricity-powered auto rickshaws in Mumbai. Transport analyst Ashok Datar, who has been driving an electric car for the last five years, …
KOLKATA, 10 OCT: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will give subsidy for buying cycle-rickshaws powered by solar energy. A senior official of KMC said a large number of economically-challenged people from backward classes and minority community are earning their livelihood by driving cycle rickshaws. The erstwhile Left Front government took …
Five soleckshaws – a solar-powered vehicle that also allows the rider to pedal – were distributed among rickshaw pullers here on Sunday to mark the launch of the vehicle in the city. Developed and manufactured by Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute in Durgapur, the zero-carbon-emitting vehicle, uses both the mechanical …
New Delhi: The price of CNG in the capital will go up by Rs 2 per kg from Oct 1, dealing another blow to consumers after the hike in petrol prices. Everyone from auto drivers, taxi unions, housewives to office-goers, expressed anger over the hike. Life has become even more …
Tampered meters in auto rickshaws and taxis and rickety, unsafe and smoke-emitting trucks, buses and private vehicles will soon cease to exist. The state transport department has a hit upon a state-of-the-art, technology-based solution — the mechanical fitness test lane. The project, which will take at least 18 months to …
