News Update on Aug 12, 2011

NEWS UPDATE ON AUGUST 12, 2011

PUNE

Footpaths, signage, speed-breakers a 'must' in Pune
Daily News & Analysis
... Agency: DNA The Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal corporations have to earmark ... including the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Pimpri Chinchwad ...

Ray of hope for city's stuck Development Plan
Mid-Day
There are over 100 DPs, including one submitted by the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), pending with the UDD for approval, the source added. Also, the proposed Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) is yet to get.



Volvo cuts safety features on India market
The Local.se
In a bid to increase its automobile market share in India, Volvo has announced that it ... Features such as lane departure warning and pedestrian detection ...

Parliament goes green
Hindustan Times
"It is an important step that holds immense significance and symbolism towards setting the standards for using environment-friendly energy," she said. She noted that with a solar energy system operational within the precincts of the highest legislative ...

Nitish Kumar asks students to protect environment
Times of India
... for protection of environment else the very existence of the earth and its creatures would be at stake," Nitish told the students of the Government Girls` High School at Shastrinagar at a function organized to mark the Quit India Movement, 1942. ...

Traffic cops assess Udyog Vihar issues
Times of India
GURGAON: To ease Udyog Vihar's perennial traffic problems, the traffic police conducted an inspection of the area jointly with citizen volunteers (road safety officers) and representatives from the industrial association. Issues ranging from parking ...

 

On the road to chaos in Ahmedabad
Daily News & Analysis
Road traffic in Ahmedabad is as smooth as flowing water - each rider finds his ... New parking spaces have to be created and the defunct spaces in building ...

 

Assocham says transport infrastructure in Bangalore is dismal
Hindu Business Line
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has ... and sustainable public transportation system in Bangalore following the Delhi ...

 

'Green infrastructure needed to spur growth'
Times of India
Focusing on sustainable development, she said: "India has managed a good growth rate ... efficient and switch to better modes of public transport," he said. ...

 

No roads lead to Gurgaon's Cyber City
Times of India
Appalling roads and non-existent traffic management have become permanent ... Yogesh Kochhar, director for strategic engagement in Microsoft India, ...

 

Chouhan in huddle over Indore's development, but is Bhopal concerned?
Daily Bhaskar
The pending projects include BRTS, sewerage project, multi-level parking, feeder road and MR-9. Apart from these, the Indore Master Plan has been stuck in ...

 

MP Midday - Work on Indore BRTS must be speedier: Collector
Indore: The work on the BRTS Corridor must be carried out at a faster pace. The work must be even speedier at places at sites that have been declared clear ...     

    

News Update on Aug 08, 2011

Planning Commission applauds Madhya Pradesh's decentralized district plan
ummid.com
These include non-government agencies, Panchayats, urban bodies and private sector. This information has been collected in consultation with masses and resources are being utilised in development of the state through these plans as per people's ...

Will de-notifying small towns help? The Hindu But the book does not address the role the small towns play in India's urbanisation or the question of how they relate to the urban morphology of the country. With municipal finances as the central theme, Paromita discusses how the civic bodies of ...

There is a huge gap in terms of funding for real estate by banks
Livemint
We met Union urban development minister Kamal Nath, Union housing minister Kumari Selja, and we recently met members of the Planning Commission and explained the need for coordination and transparency. The problem is, individually, everybody is ...


Architect Karan Grover joins CW Awards jury team
Construction Week Online India
One of the highlights of this fabulous show will be a power packed high profile panel discussion on 'Urban Transformation'. Of course, there will be a lot more happening at the Crystal Room as we all join hands to recognise and honour the glorious ...


Modernity and mega cities
Livemint
What's the future after skyscrapers and their glass facades— “projected to make India appear efficient and competent”—have become de rigueur? Mehrotra spoke to Loungeabout the tension between development and architectural aesthetic in modern India, ...  

A future filled with “feral” cities?
Fleet Owner (blog)
Urbanization expert Dr. Willfried Wienholt, for one, believes future urban development strategies must give greater consideration to the principle of sustainability as, between now and 2030, 90% of global population growth will occur in cities. ...

Your money gone down the pothole
Times of India
However, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is finally reviewing the quality of roads and the material used for laying them. AMC is also assessing the damage sustained by the roads. Despite a five-year performance bond that AMC makes contractors ...

Councillors plan trip to learn best practices
Times of India
However, we should keep in mind that the municipal corporation is at a nascent stage and many councillors are first-timers who don't have prior experience of holding public office. Most of us were unaware of our duties and rights before we attended ...

Share autos to stop far from bus stands
Times of India
CHENNAI: Soon, share autos will not be able to stop at will on city roads. The police have identified pockets where share autos will be permitted to pick up and drop passengers. These areas will be demarcated by barricades with signboards and will ...

City has no space for the pedestrian
Times of India
Bikers and three-wheelers are next at risk, accounting for 7% and 4% of fatalities There are 220 pedestrians per car in India compared to 2-3 per car in ...

Bumpy ride for BRTS passengers
Times of India
The Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited (AJL) road engineers have already started working on ways to rectify this problem. "When the bus applies breaks to stop at a ...

Pimpri Chinchwad mayor asks for fresh survey of hawkers
Times of India
But the general body of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has approved a supplementary resolution to reduce this limit to a minimum of 10 ...

Pune's Environment Status Report is an eyewash: NGO Parisar
Daily News & Analysis
The statement also said the ESR does not make a strong case for rapid strengthening of the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) fleet and ...   

 

News Update from India on August 01, 2011

AHMEDABAD

***Ahmedabad BRT system hogged the limelight after a record seven lakh earning in ticket revenues in a single day.
 The Times of India on Mobile
AHMEDABAD: As the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) gradually reaches out to ... This fact is ringing loud with cash registers of BRTS as it has crossed Rs 7 ...
m.timesofindia.com/PDATOI/articleshow/9425670.cmsDaily BRTS income crosses 7L mark
AHMEDABAD: As the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) gradually reaches out to more parts of the city, it is also gaining ground among Amdavadis.


 Temple comes up in 2 days on AMC land, demolished
Times of India
The 15 feet structure with a dome, carved pillars and walls had come up near Chandranagar BRTS track. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's (AMC) town planning and estate department officers who had visited the site said that the temple's builders, ...



***FORD to set up a plant near TATA' nano.
Ford's Endeavour to wheel in $1bn next to Nano plant
Times of India
AHMEDABAD: The world's fourth largest car-maker Ford has decided to set up a ... Ford is parking next to Nano, about 25 km from Sanand Chokdi in Ahmedabad. ...




CHENNAI
 ****A model foothpaths in city of Chennai, Chennnai City Connect, partner organisation of ITDP India has been relentlessly working to improve the pedestrian facilities...
 Guidelines for model footpaths getting ready

The Highways Department is formulating guidelines for creating model footpaths on arterials roads in the city under its control, including Jawaharlal Nehru Salai, popularly known as 100 Feet Road and Anna Salai.The focus of the exercise is to ensure that utilities such as junction boxes, garbage bins and streetlights are allotted proper space to make the pavements safe and comfortable for pedestrians. 

'North Chennai's traffic woes will soon be over'
Express Buzz
CHENNAI: “Northern Chennai will be free from traffic chaos and pollution within a year. The government is working hard to develop northern city in par with southern city,” assured Tamil Nadu Assembly speaker, D Jayakumar. Inaugurating the 47th branch ...

When small is big
Frontline
The central locations are Adyar, Alwarpet, Anna Nagar, Besant Nagar, Egmore, Kilpauk, Kotturpuram, Mandaveli, MRC Nagar, Mylapore, RA Puram, Santhome and T. Nagar. The average price value in these areas is around Rs.10000 a sq ft. ...

 
****The love for monorail continues ?
 Top Japanese firm in race for Monorail Project
Express Buzz
Hitachi's Yoshitaka Hirabaya and Mitsubishi Corporation's Koichi Hattori said on Tuesday that monorail was feasible in Chennai as it was simple in construction and would cause less traffic congestion. Offering the Japanese monorail technology for the ...

 Srinidhi Rajagopal writes in Deccan Chronicle on traffic issues in city of Chennai
Eternal traffic woes
Deccan Chronicle
By Srinidhi Rajagopal Over the last few years, Chennai has grown into a teeming metro and one of the biggest IT hubs in the country. This means that the population has also increased rapidly. The result — heavy traffic congestion. ...


****BRTS progress in Chennai, Ms Shreya Gadepalli , senior programme director, ITDP India got quoted in The Hindu. 
The Hindu : Cities / Chennai : Eight corridors identified for BRTS
Phase-I of the plan envisages a BRT network traversing the Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Thoraipakkam-Pallavaram Radial Road and the Grand Southern Trunk Road, ...

 

RAJKOT

Double-decker buses on city roads soon?
Times of India
Vitcos Pvt Ltd that operates city buses has sought permission from the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) to operate the buses in the city. Vitcos moved a formal proposal in this regard to the VMC commissioner last week. Vitcos chairman Haresh Dodiya ...

RMC approves of SPV for operation and management of BRTS.

Rajkot civic body okays SPV for BRTS project - Think India Foundation
RAJKOT: The standing committee of Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) on Friday approved a proposal moved by RMC commissioner to set up a special purpose ...

 








PUNE

Foot overbridge on Karve Road
Indian Express
The PMC seems to be confused over the facilities it wants to set up for pedestrians. After receiving poor response to its foot overbridge project in Pune station area, the civic administration had constructed pedestrian subways at JM Road and Mehendale ...



Lane confusion dogs BRTS on maiden stretch PUNE: Dedicated lanes, touted as the mainstay of a successful Bus Rapid Transit System, are absent in Pimpri Chinchwad's facility. Four stretches have been chosen for the BRTS. While the Nigdi to Dapodi route may go operational in two-three months, the remaining three are in various stages of development. In the absence of exclusive lanes, bus drivers would drive with mixed traffic, defeating the purpose of a BRTS. Officials had no answers to the traffic problems and road accidents arising out of such a situation.

PMPML buses force them to walk
Pune Newsline
Pune The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) bus service has failed to match the pace of Kharadi's progress. While IT companies setting shop ...

UT proposes subway connecting Sector 43 bus stand to Sector 52
Indian Express
The subway at Sector 43 would provide pedestrians a hassle-free passage to the other side of the road. At present the busy stretch of road, with heavy traffic movement, poses a problem for pedestrian movement. Commuters carrying luggage also find it ...






       

NEWS UPDATE ON July 27, 2011

PCMC corporators pull up admin over potholes
Times of India
PUNE: The general body meeting of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation on Thursday witnessed heated discussions for one and half hours on the issue of ...

BRTS to be ready by March 2012: Pathak - NEWSPOLITAN PUNE: Despite opposition from political parties, Pune municipal commissioner Mahesh Pathak on Wednesday said that the PMC would complete the Bus Rapid ...

PMC yet to get state directive on funding PMPML
Daily News & Analysis
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA Although there was much debate on ... to provide funds to Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd (PMPML), ...

Work on 'mixed route' BRTS begins

Daily News & Analysis
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA Municipal commissioner Mahesh ... At present, PMPML is managing the project. Politicians andactivists have ...
E-voting for IT land
Business Standard
The Election Commission team then prepared to implement e-voting in a big way in the April 2011 elections to the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation. It had six months to iron out the glitches. “In the first rollout, people had to go to their electoral ...


AMC razes 50-yr-old shops in Paldi to make way for road
Ahmedabad Mirror
On Friday afternoon, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation brought down several shops in Paldi – most of them 50 years old – to widen the road as per the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation (BPMC) Act. Perturbed shopkeepers stood as inert spectators when ...


BRTS entry to walled city to be delayed
Times of India
AHMEDABAD: The wait for people of the walled city to board Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) bus has just got longer. The AMC has once again extended its ...

BRTS cycle-track discarded over space, security concerns
Times of India
AHMEDABAD: If you had plans for a morning bicycle ride along the BRTS stretch from ... apart from parking by private luxury buses were major hindrances to ...   

Blame poor mgmt, low rates for Ahmedabad's parking woes
Daily News & Analysis
However, only a small proportion of respondents' parking in Ahmedabad was priced, so an expectation of free parking may have developed. ...

City's auto-rickshaw drivers opposed to BRTS
Times of India
Part of a pre-feasibility study (PFS) on urban transport in Rajkot, the survey has found that some of the auto-rickshaw drivers in the city are opposed to the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS). The study, funded by Asian Development Bank, was carried out ...


Rajkot civic body okays SPV for BRTS project
Times of India
"The SPV will be set up on the lines of the Ahmedabad Janmarg LTD (AJL) which runs the BRTS in Ahmedabad." The BRTS project will be implemented in three ...

Why Modi magic continues
Daily Pioneer
When the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system failed in Delhi, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation studied the reasons behind it. ... 

MP Midday - Buses on Indore BRTS route to offer dream journey Buses on Indore BRTS route to offer dream journey.

  
 Civic body set to implement BRTS on proposed routes - Express India
“The work on the proposed BRTS route is near completion. There will be a mixed BRTS with space in the dedicated lane for public transport,” said municipal ...
 Decks cleared for R 49 cr to BRTS corridor
Daily Bhaskar
Half of the fund will be borne by the Cente under the JNNURM, around Rs 9.5 crore will come from World Bank and rest of the amount will be provided by the union ministry of urban development. Talking to DNA, SDM Gautam Singh, who is in charge of city ...


BRTS to be operational by March 2012: Pathak
While addressing the press on Wednesday, Pathak stated, “I have reviewed the implementation of the BRTS and am confident that the 101-km project will be ...

Bloomberg UTV to air 'Cities of the Future' TV next In yet another thought-provoking and intellectually stimulating show, the channel explores some of India's most promising cities and determines how they are progressing steadily towards a sustainable future. Presented by Siemens, 'Cities of the Future' ...

Corporation calls MLAs meet to plan city expansion
Times of India
CHENNAI: Chennai Corporation is gearing up for the big merger of the neighbouring municipalities with it. As part of this, the civic administration has plans to host a meeting of all the 24 MLAs of the assembly constituencies that form part of the ...

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Land acquisition delay hits widening of ECR
Times of India
CHENNAI: It was once the pride of Chennai but the indifference of officials has now turned the East Coast Road (ECR) into a veritable deathtrap for pedestrians. About 60 pedestrians were killed by speeding vehicles in the last three years as ...

 

NEWS UPDATE ON July 21, 2011

CHENNAI

Demand for office space rises 33% in key property markets
Economic Times
In Chennai, the Central Business District (CBD) encompassing areas of Anna Salai , Nungabakkam, RK Salai, T Nagar, Alwarpet, Egmore witnessed improved ...

No bus services on Aynavaram road
IBNLive.com
Students studying in colleges at Anna Nagar and Arumbakkam and office goers from the neighborhood are the casualties. Last year, Mayor M Subramanian had assured of frequent bus services through Ayanavaram Road. Subsequently, work for widening the road ...


Govt emphasises on improving urban transport
Construction Week Online India
by CW India Staff on Jul 18, 2011 The Parliamentary Consultative Committee on Urban Development met in New Delhi to discuss urban transportation. The need for having better transportation systems in smaller towns was emphasized in the meeting held on ...

CENSUS -2011 
Census article covers the rapid urbanization in different cities in India...
Maharashtra third most urbanised state
Daily News & Analysis
At 82.91% the state may have recorded an impressive literacy rate, but many development experts may find the huge urban-rural divide between male -female literacy bothersome. The report calls the extent of urbanisation, “an index of transformation from ...

Census shows India urbanising faster
Business Standard
However Ashish Bose considered a pioneer among demographers in India, says urbanisation data is meaningless unless studied with data on agricultural land shrinkage. “We should not get stuck in mere data. It should be used for development,” he says. ... 

Himachal has slowest urban growth in 5 censuses
Times of India
SHIMLA: Urbanization, considered an indicator for development, has slowed down sharply in Himachal Pradesh according to provisional data of 2011 census released here today which recorded a 15.63% decadal increase in urban population against 32.51% ... 

These articles highlight the growing demand of land for industry, real estate development projects and the existing land acquisition policies in the country....

The great land rush
Daily Pioneer
Over the past decade, farmers have been pressured to part with fertile multi-crop land for industrial, urban development and infrastructure projects, triggering fears that crony capitalism is becoming the virtual law of the land. ...

 

UID to streamline and organise outdated land records
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Property holders across India may get a unique identity number, or UID, for their real estate, as a working group set up by the ministry of urban development has suggested doing away with the current system of registration and transfer of ...

 

The country must stop looking at slums as a problem
Livemint
Mumbai: The latest census data shows that little under one-third of India now lives in urban agglomerates. But are we ready for a rapidly urbanizing India? Are enough investments being made by both public and private sector in physical and social ...

'Govt must follow ignored rules, make Delhi greener'
Delhi Newsline
“There were 23 guidelines pushed through 11 years ago, when the Urban Development Ministry brought all the government agencies and NGOs together to agree on a set of rules. But now they are being ignored completely.” The guidelines specified in 2000 ...

 

ITDP a

 

Global agency to study Ahmedabad city's traffic, parking patterns ...
... trends being carried out by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) – which was the technical advisor for city's BRTS project.
www.thinkindia.net.in/.../global-agency-to-study-ahmedabad-...

 

PEDESTRIANS

Kochi: No city for pedestrians
IBNLive.com
“We have found during surveys in Chennai and Delhi that metro rail commuters look for comfortable and safe pedestrian zones to walk in and out of the stations,” says D Dhanuraj, chairman of the Kochi-based Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR). ...

 

1890 Longest Pedestrian Bridge in the World + Men's Best Friend
In Chatttanooga, Tennessee you can walk across the in 1890 erected longest pedestrian bridge in the world! Quite a sight of the Tennessee river, ...

 

BRTS

 

***BRTS: Commissioner discusses bottlenecks with property owners ...
Officials told to pay compensation to owners and transfer development rights...
www.headlinesfeed.com/.../brts-commissioner-discusses-bottle...

 

***Work on 'mixed route' BRTS begins
Daily Bhaskar
Pune: Municipal commissioner Mahesh Pathak said on Wednesday that work on the bus rapid transit system (BRTS) ... At present, PMPML is managing the project. ...

 

***Officers questioned for slow pace in BRTS corridor construction
Daily Bhaskar
Indore: With the work of bus rapid transit system(BRTS) lagging behind, the Collector Raghavendra Singh questioned the representatives of the Niraj-Pratibha Constructions(NPC), the firm working on the project. The collector ordered the firm's ...

 

***Elevated road over Rajmarg delayed again
Times of India
SURAT: The three kilometre-long elevated road over Rajmarg will take longer to get off the drawing board with fresh plans to merge it with the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project. SMC executive engineer Bharat Shah said, "The previous tender was ...      

NEWS UPDATE ON JULY 18, 2011

 
 AHMEDABAD
The newly appointed Ahmedabad municipal commissioner envisions for an  integration of proposed METRO and existing BRTS in city of Ahmedabad.
***Work on Ahmedabad Metro to begin by November
Daily News & Analysis
“The BRTS and the metro rail will complement each other,” Mohapatra said. The metro rail project will be carried out in a phased manner. The first phase of the metro rail project will cover a distance of 32.65 km from Vasna APMC in Ahmedabad to ...

Another positive story on  BRTS in Ahmedabad.
***BRTS drives its way into money record, earns Rs8.28L in a day
Daily News & Analysis
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA The Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), the ambitious urban transport project of Ahmedabad Municipal ...

BRTS bus pelted with stones in Rajkot
Vandals hurl stones at BRTS bus on test run
Times of India
RAJKOT: Unidentified persons hurled stones at the air-conditioned Mercedes-Benz bus on the trial run of the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) shattering its windscreen. It is suspected that youngsters who were denied a joyride on the bus are behind the ...

CHENNAI

Velachery is a commuters nightmare
IBNLive.com
As in Europe, encourage public transportation and impose prohibitive cost on using cars.” Sharing his experience, he said that cars occupy a minimum of 65 per cent road space. “Cars eat away huge space. Cut them down, come up with schemes like the BRTS ...

City & suburban police offices in for merger
Times of India
CHENNAI: The government has decided to merge the city and suburban police commissionerates into one unit headed by one commissioner but functioning as two geographical zones under additional commissioners. Accepting a proposal from the police ...


Google Maps cans traffic estimates
CNET
As for traffic times, please...accidents, road construction, weather can all play into how long it takes to get from point A to point B. You'd be a fool to rely on their estimated time travel, which even Google always had a disclaimer because of the ...


PUNE
Pune Corporator demands JNNURM work audit
Daily News & Analysis
Independent corporator Ujwal Keskar on Monday claimed that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had spent an additional Rs400 crore on the implementation of projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru national urban renewal mission (JNNURM), and urged the ...

Flyover to be built at Dange chowk
Times of India
PCMC is widening the Aundh-Ravet road to 45 meters and developing it as a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) route." Kudale said, a split flyover or two ...



ITDP and international news 


Bogota Declaration on Sustainable Transport Objectives | www ...
Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport .... With Contributions from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP),EMBARQ - the ...
www.slocat.net/news/503EcoMobility Changwon 2011: World Congress on Mobility for the ...
 

Innovative transport models will be presented to envision how emerging ... Low Carbon Transport, ITDP - Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, ...
scp-knowledge.eu/.../ecomobility-changwon-2011-world-con... 

Making city roads a driver's nightmare | 89.3 KPCC
Michael Kodransky, traffic reduction program manager, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy in New York. Richard Katz, Chair of the Board of ... 

Foot traffic key to smarter, healthier towns
BurlingtonFreePress.com
As an adult, Litman moved to Vancouver Island, where he founded and now directs the nonprofit Victoria Transport Policy Institute. It's a spot he said embodies an underrated virtue: walkability. Burlington and other Chittenden County urban centers, ...



COLUMNS

Urbanization: it's happening, can we cope?
Livemint
But there are some other features of the data that stand out, which reflect both the opportunities and challenges of India's urban future. One, as was reported by Mint on 16 July, the big upward push to urbanization, particularly in south India, 

Redefining the Poverty Line
ummid.com
Despite India's consistent economic growth for almost two decades, the country records a staggering rate of poverty. According to the UN Human Development Report (2009), with the poverty line of $2.00 a day, more than 75% of Indians are poor. ...

Harsh Mander writes on street vendors issue in The HINDU

***Barefoot: Cities and the right to vend
The Hindu
To take just one example cited by SEWA, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has recently finalised a scheme for Ahmedabad. It is estimated that there are about 1.5 lakh street vendors in Ahmedabad. Of these in the new scheme, 22500 will definitely be ...

Vice President M. Hamid Ansari's take on present environment in media

 ***Indian media in a challenging environment
The Hindu
... the extremely buoyant growth rates witnessed over the last two decades, in an environment characterised by minimal or no regulation. The sole statutory, quasi-judicial body set up for media regulation in the country is the Press Council of India. ...



 

     

NEWS UPDATE ON July 15, 2011

AHMEDABAD
***AMC to have 50 town planning schemes in next 3 years
Daily Bhaskar
Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has initiated the process of preparing around 50 town planning (TP) schemes in new and old areas of the city. The AMC is roping in a private party for preparing these draft TP schemes and it has ...

AMC locks horns with Army in High Court
Ahmedabad Newsline
However, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation dismissed the claim, calling it “cooked up”. It alleged that the Army was serving the interests of a local industrialist to secure his property under the guise of security threat. ...

PUNE

***FC, JM roads to get pedestrian signals
Times of India
PUNE: Traffic authorities have announced that one pedestrian signal each will become functional on the Jangli Maharaj and Fergusson College roads from Friday, following several complaints about unsafe conditions for pedestrians while walking on or ...

 

Dedicated staff to ensure students' safety at bus stops
Times of India
PUNE: To ensure that students travel safely in the PMPML buses, the transport utility has appointed dedicated staff at all important bus stops in the city. ...

 

Keep Iffco Chowk signal on automatic mode: cops
Hindustan Times
They cross the road by putting their lives at risk, the official added. “In an effort to prevent accidents, we have asked the NHAI to keep the signal on automatic mode at night,” the official added. 

 

OTHER CITIES...

Chinese doctor sets out to 'cure' bad driving
eTaiwan News
He has translated his research into a lucrative business selling his road safety program to Chinese municipalities. At least one city using his methods reports a decline in traffic deaths. He has studied the records of thousands of Chinese bus, ...




Provide adequate city buses to Cuttack Orissa HC
Orissadiary.com
Cuttack: The Odisha High Court on Thursday gave a clear-cut direction to the state government to run adequate number of City Buses under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewable Mission (JNNURM) scheme between Cuttack and Bhubaneswar within a month. ...


***Academicians slam Bengaluru's road widening
Citizen Matters
Prof TN Guru Row, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science 54. Prof C Nanjundaiah, Centre for Economic Studies and Policy, Institute for Social and Economic Change 55. Dr Jayashree Ratnam, Ecologist, National Centre for ...

Carelessness in BRTS work caused 33 deaths in Bhopal: Cong ...
Carelessness in BRTS work caused 33 deaths in Bhopal: Cong - Bhopal, July 14 : The main opposition Congress today raised, in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, ...

 

 

Working hard to improve quality of life in New Delhi
gulfnews.com
In many cities in India, including the capital Delhi, it is not uncommon to hear drivers using the car horn indiscriminately - something that has always been a matter of concern to environmental activists and peace lovers. "I was getting fed up with ...

 

 

 

Cycle-opedia: Making The Leap From Pedestrian to Pedaler Express from The Washington Post So why not make the leap from pedestrian to pedaler? The advent of Capital Bikeshare has certainly made a two-wheeled ride more accessible. But sometimes what's keeping you from hopping onto a saddle isn't that you don't have a bike. ...

NEWS FROM BLOGS

The Challenge of Pedestrian-Friendly Planning | The Kojo Nnamdi Show
By The Kojo Nnamdi Show
I can't understand the car-centric attitude that pedestrians (and other non-cars) necessarily take their lives in their hands when using roadways, even at crosswalks where pedestrians have the right of way. Cars are not acts of nature, ...
The Kojo Nnamdi Show

 

Winner of the Building to Building Pedestrian Bridge Challenge ...
By David Fano
We are pleased to announce that the DSSH Bridge / sanzpont [arquitectura] project by Sergio Sanz Pont + Victor Sanz Pont has won the latest DesignByMany challenge: Building to Building Pedestrian Bridge The challenge asked professionals ...