Private stage carriage bus operators across the country ferry 150 million people daily! With a majority of them operating in the non-urban sector, these operators provide critical and affordable public transport linkages across the regions. However, the rising fuel (diesel/ CNG) prices significantly threaten their current business. This issue brief …
Kakoly Chatterjee, Yogima Seth New Delhi: Eleven months down the line, only 1,800 buses have been delivered so far against the expected 14,000 buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) announced in January, 2009. This has triggered a blame game between the urban development ministry and bus …
While the citizens of the Capital do not have enough potable water, the transport department of the Delhi government has decided to install water-softener plants to wash low-floor buses with an expenditure of lakhs of rupees. Delhi minister of transport Arvinder Singh said the water-softener plants would be installed in …
three hundred new buses bought by the state government with central funds have found no takers. Of the 900-plus semi-low floor and low-floor buses purchased under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission scheme, 600 have hit the road. About half are being run by private operators and the rest …
The urban transportation toolkit was initially conceived by the Asian Development Bank in conjunction with the Government of Maharashtra. The initial approach followed to prepare the toolkit included a review of documentation available on PPPs in urban transportation. The documents included case studies, reports, articles and presentations on the implementation …
New Delhi: In a move that will make travel between Delhi and national capital region cities like Noida and Ghaziabad a lot simpler and cheaper, taxis and radio cabs plying between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh will not be required to pay any tax at the border from Wednesday. This was …
There is potential scope for light weight materials in passenger buses to improve fuel economy. NVH aspects, emission to meet future norms. A study was conducted to identify components for which light weight materials such as High Strength Low Alloy Steels (HSLA), Aluminium Alloys, plastics and composites can replace in …
Three low floor buses were flown into service by the state transport minister, Mr Ranjit Kundu, today. The vehicles have been procured under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme. The buses would ply on routes ~ 221, 214 and 32 ~ one each. The state government has …
The impasse over a smooth and hassle-free access from the new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor on Mathura Road to the Supreme Court seems far from over. On Tuesday, Supreme Court judges and senior government officials met for the second time to discuss the issue but the meeting remained inconclusive, …
The government will formulate a new transport policy to effectively regulate the functioning of private operators and the state road transport corporation will make efforts to secure agency of the Tata Motors for supply of chassis and spare parts. Stating this, while replying to the discussion raised recently in the …
MUMBAI: Even as the Union urban development minister, Jaipal Reddy, on Tuesday stressed the importance of the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) for Mumbai, officials in charge of the project say it is still in the planning stage and needs seven to eight months before work on the ground begins. …
The government's plan to phase out Blueline buses in the capital is likely to take more time than expected. While its "cluster" scheme, in which private players were to be invited to run buses on particular cluster of routes, seems to have encountered a financial problem, the arrival of the …
Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain said on Saturday old and junk vehicles plying in the city for more than 20 years would be removed from the roads. "To implement the plan, a tender is under the process for purchasing 100 new buses in the public sector and 100 more new …
Traffic curbs suggested by the Bombay High Court to reduce congestion in Mumbai has been termed impractical by Maharashtra. On June 10, the court had asked the state to try out a traffic restraint scheme. It entailed private vehicles bearing registration numbers ending in particular digits are kept off the …
Traffic curbs suggested by the Bombay High Court to reduce congestion in Mumbai has been termed impractical by Maharashtra. On June 10, the court had asked the state to try out a traffic restraint scheme. It entailed private vehicles bearing registration numbers ending in particular digits are kept off the …
Easing traffic the Beijing way impractical for Mumbai says government traffic curbs suggested by the Bombay High Court to reduce congestion in Mumbai has been termed impractical by Maharashtra. On June 10, the court had asked the state to try out a traffic restraint scheme. It entailed private vehicles bearing …
The capital has often been riled for not overhauling its rickety, unreliable and, at times, killer public transport (read Bluelines). Even though Metro brought about a much-needed image makeover, Delhi has a lot of ground to cover. And Commonwealth Games 2010 came as a godsend opportunity for city government to …
Patiala is all set to have a state of the art multi-storeyed bus stand. Project worth Rs 500 crore is being executed in public-private participation, for which a private firm has been awarded the contract. Managing director of the Pepsu Road Transport Corporation Manvesh Singh Sidhu told The Tribune here …
