Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Multistorey public parking lots should not be located in congested areas and core city areas, but on outskirts of such areas, NGO Pedestrians First has said. Convener of Pedestrians First, Prashant Inamdar has suggested Pune Municipal Corporation that proper access roads for vehicle entry and exit should be available for …
The document provides an overview of the different approaches to on-street parking management and provides advice to policy makers dealing with problems arising from unmanaged on-street parking. It addresses common problems that occur from illegal parking and circulating traffic searching for parking and points out approaches to overcome them. This …
Parking is not a "right" and a good transport policy should lead to a reduction in the demand for parking space. These principles on which Pune's proposed parking policy is based could well show the way for Delhi too. The national capital registers three times the 450-500 vehicles that the …
The corporation, on a mission to address the problem, proposes a panel of experts to chalk out a policy Now, Kochiites know the reason for their parking woes. It is perhaps due to the lack of a proper parking policy. Having identified the problem, the corporation has set out to …
Charges for surface parking lots in areas with multi-level facilities could be hiked by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation to encourage the use of the latter. The SDMC’s Standing Committee decided on Wednesday to explore the option of increasing the rates for the surface level parking lots in Hauz Khas, …
The lack of road safety remains a major challenge in many urban areas, although high levels of road safety are a prerequisite for the attractiveness of cycling, walking and public transport. GIZ publishes the new publication “Towards more livable and safer cities: Examples for save safe road infrastructure design”. Safety …
The National Green Tribunal today reprimanded Uttar Pradesh government for its failure to control traffic chaos near Kaushambi Bus Terminal on the Delhi bordering and directed the traffic police to penalise offending vehicles. "Why are you permitting private buses outside UP Roadways bus terminus in Kaushambi? Why don't you remove …
JLL has listed out 10 things that citizens expect from these Smart Cities. The government last month revealed names of the first 20 smart cities that will get Rs 50,802 crore over five years to become ‘Smart Cities’. The cities will be given funds to solve problems from power cuts …
The Delhi high court has given a verdict that parking cars in common areas of a residential society amounts to encroachment. Unless permitted, a flat owner can only park one vehicle in the designated parking allotted under the rules by a housing society, the court added, clarifying the legal position …
Gurgaon: Huda has decided to crack down on illegal parking on roadsides, and directed police to slap offenders with a stiff fine of Rs 5,000. Illegal parking has been a major issue on Gurgaon-Sohna Road, Golf Course Road, near Subhash Chowk and Hero Honda Chowk. Implementation of the order will …
Will it be odd for Chennai to even consider reducing congestion caused by vehicular traffic? The jury is still out on the odd-even scheme in Delhi. Yet we have learnt that people are willing not just to talk about pollution and congestion on the roads but also to act upon …
Gurgaon: While authorities are focusing on ways to curb vehicular emissions, residents of DLF-III claim that broken, dug-up dusty roads of the area are also adding to the city's pollution. In fact, almost all roads that connect DLF-III with other parts of the city are in bad shape. The stretch …
Restrictions not on exempted vehicles With the odd-even scheme coming into effect from Friday, the Delhi government on Wednesday issued orders prohibiting the parking of odd number private cars on even dates and even numbered cars on odd days till January 15. Officials said that the odd numbered cars will …
Over 70 per cent of the malls and hospitals in south Delhi have allowed free parking at their premises as per instructions issued recently by the area's civic body. This was disclosed at the standing committee meeting of the corporation held here on Monday. Standing Committee chairman Radhe Shyam Sharma …
As the Delhi government prepares the final draft of its policy statement for staggering four-wheeler traffic to bring down air pollution levels in the Capital, the most significant question being asked by critics is the most basic one: do we really need to do this? One of the better persons …
The Centre of Science and Environment (CSE) has slammed the public notice of South Corporation stopping charging parking fee in commercial complexes, malls and hospitals and called it regressive and harmful to the environment. CSE director media, Souparno Banerjee said, “When the capital is grappling with a severe air pollution …
Reacting to a public notice from the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), which said that shopping complexes and malls cannot charge for parking, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has maintained that it is shocked by the move. On Tuesday, the SDMC had issued a notice saying that malls …
Transport sector has always been a significant contributor in emission estimates of cities. The source apportionment studies conducted in the six major cities of the country have shown that transport has significant contributions in PM2.5 and NOx concentrations. Moreover, the lower height of release of vehicular emissions leads to higher …
The Capital provides more land for car parks than for housing for poor people.The approximately 4.5 million slum population in Delhi occupies only 3 per cent of Delhi’s area. But the parking demand generated by cars makes the demand close to 10 per cent of Delhi’s urbanised land, according to …
Global emissions scenarios studies, such as those informing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report (AR5), highlight the importance of the transport sector for climate change mitigation—along with the difficulties of achieving deep reductions therein (1) [supplementary materials (SM)]. Transport is responsible for about 23% of total …
