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Olympics 2008, Beijing - raising the bar
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2008
With the Olympic Games breathing down Beijing's neck, the city is racing against the clock to ensure it meets one of the commitments it made when it won the bid for the games in 2001 blue skies.
As one alights on the Jingshun highway that connects the airport to Beijing, a question comes inevitably to mind will Nini, the flying swallow chosen as one of the five mascots for the 2008 games, prosper in a city gridlocked by incessant waves of traffic--and the smoke it spews?
Small car revolution Who cares about congestion, pollution
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2007
Small cars have had it good for quite a while, but the market could undergo a drastic transformation with the advent of ultra-cheap, small cars led by the Tatas' Rs 1 lakh model.
Private vehicles eating into scare public land
Issue Date: May 31, 2007
The anatomy of congestion
Issue Date: May 15, 2003
Reaching for the Skies
Issue Date: Nov 15, 1994
THE Indian skies are not as generous and capacious as they appear to be in the rosy light of touristy optimism when it comes to accommodating the steadily increasing domestic and international aircraft flights. The "airport stress syndrome" has come to roost in India, following its establishment as the hub of burgeoning air traffic in the newly open Asian market.
Spanner on Mumbai's free floor space project
Issue Date: Jan 11, 2011
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) project to provide free floor space index (FSI) to builders creating public parking slots has gone all wrong. The builders are exploiting the project to fill their coffers.
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.Exposure to diesel exhaust induces stress
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2008
how often have you felt irritated, even tense, while trying to make your way through car-clogged roads? New research shows that sniffing diesel fumes could well be the reason for your discomfiture.
Planning in the air
@sunitanar Issue Date: Apr 15, 2008
India has added two more swanky symbols to bolster its first-world ambitions: the Rajiv Gandhi international airport in Hyderabad and the gleaming Bengaluru international airport in our software capital. But look beneath this glitzy faade and you will find another instance of development on the cheap. We refuse to admit that our dream of world-class infrastructure is not grounded on the hard reality that we are a rich and poor country at the same time. As a result, we do not think differently and plan for solutions that suit our needs.
Congestion in the skies is costing India dearly
Issue Date: Feb 29, 2008
Every month six aircraft are added to the Indian airspace. In 2006-07, 60 million people travelled by air in the country--half of them preferred other modes till five years ago. The aviation sector is indeed growing at a steep rate. Here is the downside congestion, flight delays and diversions; all leading to enormous fuel wastage.
