It was with the motive of easing traffic congestion in Imphal city that the state government came up with a new traffic rule on February 13th, thereby prohibiting entry of all vehicles in Paona and Thangal Bazaar. The state government also allotted 17 authorised parking lots in different parts of the city.
Semi-low floor bus for ferrying passengers within the market areas in Imphal on February 23 2012 - Pix :: David M Mayum
The new traffic regulation, though, was put on a trial basis, did not go well with the public. Shopkeepers of Thangal and Paona Bazaar even went to the extent of shutting down their shops for a couple of days protesting against the new traffic regulation, on the ground that customers are reluctant to visit their shops and as a result their sale proceed decline considerably. Read more
Source : e-pao.net
Billions of man-hours are lost with people 'stuck in traffic'. This fact is also echoed in government's national urban transport policy. The reasons are well known: exponential growth of motor vehicles with negligible increase in road space. To make things worse, unprecedented rate of urban population growth has been reported in the last census. So, travel within major urban networks such Mumbai and Delhi has become unpredictable.
Nobody will disagree that the best thing that happened to Delhi in recent years is the metro rail. Metro has altered the character of the city in many locales. In Mumbai, the electric train service is touted to be the lifeline catering to almost 80% of citizen trips. Read more
Source : articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com
New Delhi : Taking a step forward to strengthen the public transport in the Capital, the government is once again considering its earlier plan of building a light rail transit (LRT) system.
Building LRT corridors will bring Delhi at par with several world-class cities such as London, New York,Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur that have an integrated multi-modal transit system. Read more
Source : hindustantimes.com
The Delhi Metro says trains on this line will run at 110 kmph, 5 kmph faster than the Airport Express carriages.
The Delhi Metro has announced plans to connect Dwarka and Gurgaon on the new line
But it is to be seen if Metro lives up to its word, considering that trains on the Airport Express line have yet to hit their planned top speed of 120 kmph. Read more
Source : dailymail.co.uk
Improved law and order, better incomes, higher farm output in states such as Bihar and UP lead to surge in demand
Mumbai/New Delhi: Increased disposable incomes through the sale of land, higher farm output, smoother roads and an improved law and order situation in states such as Bihar helped drive the sales of utility and multi-utility vehicles in villages and smaller towns in the first 10 months of the current fiscal, according to dealers and executives of auto firms.
Sales of utility vehicles in India rose 13% to 291,333 units from a year ago, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam), even as sales of passenger cars contracted 1.19%. Read more
Source : livemint.com
Bangalore : A bunch of senior civil and urban planners and representatives of various industries will participate in a meet organized by Global Initiative for Restructuring Environment and Management (GIREM) on Thursday, Feb 22 to assess whether master plans for Bangalore's growth are solid enough to cater to the exploding population of the city and discuss how all stakeholders can add value to these plans.
Moreover, the participants will assess the role of metro in easing commuting problems, security aspects and whether the large IT firms can share transportation services to lessen vehicle congestion on roads. Read more
Source : news.oneindia.in
The Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) is planning to approach the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and other prominent technological universities in the country to devise metro rail specific courses for engineering students, and train them to handle both the technical and management sides of metro rail operations in the next five years.
File photo: Work in progress.
HMR officials see a huge demand for engineers specialised in metro rail technology. With metro projects in New Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru already facing a severe shortage of engineers having expertise in metro rail technology, HMR wants to make sure the supply meets demand. Read more
Source : deccanchronicle.com
New Delhi : Indian Railways’ financial distress is not likely to get over in the near future. Its projected shortfall in internal resource generation for meeting its 12th Plan outlay (2012-17) is Rs 2,00,000 crore.
The ministry of railways has projected a three-time increase in Plan size to Rs 7,19,677 crore for the five-year period. Read more
Source : business-standard.com
Cities planned around public transport are more liveable as dependence on private transport is unviable.
“Traffic destroys friendships,” asserts Mr Mark Gorton, an advocate for public transport and expert on urban management. He isn't talking of road rage here, but the more insidious impact that traffic has on social interaction and its adverse impact on the quality of urban life. Those living on main city roads will probably have a first-hand experience of what Mr Gorton, a US resident and entrepreneur, is talking of.
When was the last time that people living on a busy street have been able to relax outside their gate talking to their neighbours? Let the kids go out on their bicycles or hang out with their friends? Read more
Source : thehindubusinessline.com
Development plans: Mr D. Jayakumar, Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Assembly, viewing a stall at the Fairpro 2012 along with Mr T. Chitty Babu (third from left), President, Credai, Chennai, and Mr N. Nandakumar (second from left), Secretary, Credai, in Chennai on Friday. — Photo: Bijoy Ghosh
Addressing media persons following the inaugural of Fairpro 2012, a property fair organised by the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India (Credai), he said the first meeting of the UMTA was held recently and a Executive Committee led by the Chief Secretary is to be constituted. Read more
Source : thehindubusinessline.com
Jaipur: In the wake of continuous protests against B2 Bypass, Jaipur Development Authority is looking for a solution. As a remedy, JDA is likely to revive an old project of elevated road proposed under bus rapid transit system.
Around 1.5-km elevated road project from Shipra Path crossing to Dwarkadas Garden was proposed as part of a BRTS project under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). JDA had revised the report of the project and forwarded it to the Union ministry of urban development for approval in June 2010. Read more
Source : daily.bhaskar.com
Jaipur: Now you can ride the Metro from Mansarovar to Hawa Mahal and back. The ministry of urban development on Tuesday approved the expansion of Phase 1 of the metro project from Chandpole to Badi Chaupar.
The ministry has also agreed back its decision with an additional finance of Rs 600 crore. The first phase of Metro project was earlier planned between Mansarovar and Chandpole. The stations inside Walled City including Badi Chaupar were scheduled to be taken up in the second phase of the project consider the infrastructure involved laying the tracks underground. Read more
Source : daily.bhaskar.com
Redeveloping slums can change the quality of life for the majority of metropolitan Indians living in slums
How to tackle the massive urban explosion India is and likely to continue experiencing in the foreseeable future? Two comprehensive reports have put a figure to the huge resources required to create capacity to meet the needs expected by 2030. The urban infrastructure report initiated by the ministry of urban development says Rs 39 lakh crore (around half of current GDP); the McKinsey Global Institute’s report, “India’s Urban Awakening”, says $1.2 trillion (Rs 60 lakh crore, around 80 per cent of current GDP).
One way to address this enormous resource crunch is to shrink costs — innovate, think different, find affordable solutions. Interestingly, one set of solutions lies away from the problem areas themselves — to tackle A, do something in B. The bigger the city, the more it costs to create the same capacity. So costs go down if we focus on smaller urban areas. More capacity in smaller cities with job potential will enable them to shoulder a larger share of the growing urban burden. Read more
Source : business-standard.com
Ahmedabad : A young boy gets down at the last stop of the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on the RTO-Naroda route and says, “Where is this Naroda Patiya, the riot spot, actually located?” Nobody knew Naroda Patiya till 2002.
Muslims who survived the biggest post-Godhra massacre are now called Patiyawala, a term they own up with pride. They lost their loved ones but their lives has since seen a sea of change, with the BRTS running right outside their homes and the surrounding development making their own abodes high on the demand list. Read more
Source : .indianexpress.com
The population of Indian cities, already more than 340 million, is projected to reach nearly 600 million by 2030. By then daily passenger trips among 87 of the country's major cities will have doubled to roughly 482 million a day. In other words, embracing sustainable urban transport will quickly become an urgent need, and a key to doing so, according to a new report by EMBARQ India, may rest not in an emerging travel mode but an old reliable one: the rickshaw.
Private vehicle ownership in India is on the rise — climbing 85 percent during the 2000s to 110 million cars and motorcycles by the end of the decade. Meanwhile public transit ridership has fallen over that same period, in part because it hasn't kept up with demand. Bicycle riding is down too, as the length of trips grows longer with urban sprawl. In an extremely crowded country, that's a transportation recipe for high emissions, poor public safety, and massive congestion, among other social problems. Read more
Source : theatlanticcities.com
There are well-established helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) systems in many countries around the world; especially in major European economies like Germany, France and UK; and even in Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and Korea. However, there is still a widespread misconception about HEMS being an expensive tool meant only for the highly affluent.
With increasing education and awareness drives by governments and related organisations, countries that have yet to establish an HEMS network are beginning to step up their efforts, recognising the immense benefits such a system can bring to the well-being of its people. Read more
Source : expresshealthcare.in
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