Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
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Cool move: All BRTS buses to have AC
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: Travelling from Shivranjani to Kankaria in a bus will soon be as cool as riding in an airconditioned car.
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Chinese tortoises a rage in city
... But Are Dying Due To Neglect Parth Shastri | TNN Ahmedabad: They look cute, can even make your plastic tub its home and can walk on your hand.
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Bullet train project gets closer to realisation
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The dreams of Amdavadis to reach Mumbai in less than two hours have moved a step closer to realisation. The detailed project report for the bullet train between Ahmedabad-Pune has been finally submitted to the railway board. The report has pegged the cost of the project, which covers nearly 530 km between Ahmedabad-Pune, at around Rs 56,000 crore.
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Language barrier puts Gujs green drive out of Guinness
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The forest department and the state government received a major blow after the Guinness Book of World Records refused to acknowledge the city
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Mass transportation system key to sustainable city
Ahmedabad: As a developing and expanding city, Ahmedabad should now concentrate on transit oriented development and plan towards multi-modal transportation as a key to planning new zones within its limits. Deputy administrator of the US department of transportation Therese McMillan, who was on a whirlwind visit to Ahmedabad took an overview of the BRTS system in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. McM
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BRTS bags JNNURM award
Ahmedabad: After winning accolades from world over, the Ahmedabad BRTS has won another national honour.
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Land use transformation along the BRT corridor Ahmedabad
Land use transformation along the BRT corridor
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No takers for AMCs floating restaurant on Sabarmati riverfront
Bidders Want The River Flowing Through Out The Year Free Of Sewage Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: Flowing and fresh water in Sabarmati is key to the proposal of floating restaurant on the river. Yet another bid to set up a floating restaurant in the river has fallen apart with only one person showing interest and that too not for the restaurant.
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Working with the market: approach to reducing urban slums in India
<p>This paper examines the policy options for India as it seeks to improve living conditions of the poor on a large scale and reduce the population in slums. Addressing the problem requires first a diagnosis of the market at the city level and a recognition that government interventions, rather than thwarting the operations of the market, should seek to make it operate better. This can
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Chennai among world's fastest-growing cities
Arun Kumar WASHINGTON: Three Indian cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Chennai - have been listed among the world's fastest-growing cities by Forbes magazine.