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Transport

Letters

Issue Date: Oct 31, 2010
Keep bees beaming

Letters

Issue Date: Oct 15, 2010
Subsidy for a select few

40 km for Rs 5

Issue Date: Sep 15, 2010
STUDENTS at SMS Institute of Technology in Lucknow are desperately waiting for mechanical engineering professor Bharat Raj Singh—to see his motorbike that runs on air.

Desperate for Expressway

Issue Date: Sep 15, 2010
Setting aside environmental concerns and ignoring the threat to one of the most fertile belts in India, Uttar Pradesh government is set to start work on the eight-lane expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal. The 147.8 km expressway will connect Greater Noida in Gautam Budh Nagar district and the Uttar Pradesh- Uttarakhand border.

Fund crunch hits Mumbai Metro

Issue Date: Sep 15, 2010
MUMBAI's Metro rail project has hit a roadblock. The regional planning authority, executing the project, is facing shortage of funds.

Letter

Issue Date: Sep 15, 2010
Tango with nature

Paving Your Way Toward Ill-Health

In 2008, every hour there were approximately 47 reported cases of road accidents in all of India. Of these cases, 54 people were injured and close to 14 people died (every hour), according to the National Crime Records Bureau.  

No parking

Issue Date: Aug 31, 2010

Three steps for India

Issue Date: Aug 31, 2010
Indian cities need to put the brakes. But how? "Think of what London and Singapore did before graduating to sophisticated restraints," said Paul Barter of Singapore National University. Singapore slapped high taxes on new cars and annual taxes on cars in use. It could be 160 per cent of the market value of the car.

Parking brakes

Portland, Oregon: set a cap of 40,000 parking spaces downtown. This increased public transport usage from 20-25 per cent in the 1970s to 48 per cent in mid- 1990s  Seattle: allows a maximum of one parking space per 100 square metres at downtown offices  San Francisco: limits parking to seven per cent of a downtown building's floor area 
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