Wednesday, July 6, 2011

NEWS UPDATE ON July 6, 2011

AHMEDABAD
*** BRTS gets dismal report card - DNA - English News & Features ...
Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) has brought out the 17th monthly report of Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) which feature the above ...   

   
Strolling atop Bhadra fort
Times of India
AHMEDABAD: Strolling atop Bhadra fort to watch the world go by or jaywalking in the former Sultan's darbar will soon be a reality, thanks to a project jointly undertaken by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and the Ahmedabad Municipal ...


BRTS, 108 service wow foreigners - DNA - English News & Features ...
Many of them were very impressed by the city's BRTS and 108 emergency service. The course was a six-week, ministry of external affairs (MEA), Government of ...




CHENNAI
***Time to take care
The Hindu
Road accidents may occur anywhere, anytime, either while travelling or crossing the road or even while boarding a vehicle. Sadly, India has earned the distinction of having highest number of road accidents in the world. Sanjana J. a Std. VIII student ...



PUNE

Pune Community Portal - puneScoop.com || JM, FC Roads To Get ...
Pedestrians can soon hope to see some facilities on the busy Jangli Maharaj and Fergusson College Roads to cross the roads in a safe manner. ...

***Rapid Transit System: Latest News on Rapid Transit System at Times ...
The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation is likely to complete the bus rapid transit system (BRTS) route on the Aundh-Ravet road, except the stretch that ...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rapid-Transit-System/news


Resolution to reduce octroi on petrol, diesel approved PCMC
Times of India
PUNE: The standing committee of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has approved a resolution to reduce octroi on petrol and diesel by 1.5 per ...


Petrol cheaper by R 1.60 in PCMC area
Daily Bhaskar
Pune: The standing committee of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) on Tuesday reduced octroi on petrol and diesel by 1%. ...
  

***Two Ravet roads to be widened - The Times of India on Mobile
PUNE: The state urban development department has approved a proposal of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) to widen two 18-metre-wide roads ...
m.timesofindia.com/PDATOI/articleshow/9091377.cms



Two more traffic assistance boths on cards 
The Times of India, Pune
The traffic branch of the city police is planning to start traffic assistance booths at the Shivajinagar station and the Katraj bus terminus 
to help passengers get autorickshaws that run by the meter. Two such booths are already functional at the Pune railway station and the Swargate state transport
 bus terminus.

DNA, Pune
The Standing Committee of PMC approved two proposals to build foot over bridges in the city instead of subways in Vishrantwadi and near santosh hall 
on sinhagad  road. 

Esakal, Pune 
BRTS Road is Complete on Mumbai-Pune highway. but Khadki Kantonment Board is not agree to open Road.

 

OTHER CITIES 
***'Level of air pollution in cities may impair brain'
Hindustan Times
Most big cities in India actually have pollution levels higher than the ones we used in experiments by the researchers, Sanjay Rajagopalan, Ohio State University professor and a coauthor of the research said. "We didn't expect the kind dramatic results ...



Study links air pollution to brain changes
UPI.com
A study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry said long-term exposure to air pollution can have a harmful impact on the central nervous system, which poses particular significance for rapidly expanding industrial economies in India and China. ...


***India stumbles on millennium goal chase
IBNLive.com
India needs to integrate the principles of sustainable development into its policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources. India also needs to reduce biodiversity loss. It was supposed to achieve, by 2010, a significant ...




Kamal Nath highlights infra dev opportunities to Singapore
MSN India
Singapore, July 5 (PTI) Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath today held a series of meetings with infrastructure companies in Singapore, explaining the new opportunities emerging in the vast South Asian market. Nath said he would also be meeting ...



***Pedestrian-ism | why we love austin
Pedestrian is typically defined by a person that travels by foot. By todays standards it generally means “means of transportation that are human powered.
whyweloveaustin.files.wordpress.com/.../pedestrian.jpg?w...h...


***The 10 Cities Where You're Most Likely To Get Hit by a Car
By Vivian Giang
Within the past decade, approximately 47000 pedestrians were killed -- the equivalent of a large jet full of passengers crashing nearly every month -- and 668000 pedestrians were injured in the United States. ...



BMTC has to drag people to its swanky bus station
Bangalore Mirror
It was built at a cost of Rs 91.9 crore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) with 30 per cent funding from the Union Government, 20 per cent from the state and the rest from the BMTC. It was inaugurated on May 24. ..


<B>Subir Roy:</B> Guns versus butter to cars versus trees
Business Standard
In choosing between cars and trees, which global example should India follow? ... Pedestrian subways have been removed and there are more traffic lights ...


ITDP

***Tehran, the City of Red Buses
Chief executive officer of Institute for Transportation and Development Policy ( ITDP), who is in Tehran to visit transportation facilities, ...
 




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