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
Ahmedabad (T)
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Project that made promises galore
AHMEDABAD: If the BRTS promised you a bus every 3 minutes during peak hours and every six minutes during off-peak hours, the metro rail frequency was designed for a metro every 5 minutes during the peak hours while it extended to 15 minutes during off-peak hours. Not only this, the proposed Ahmedabad metro was designed to handle 32 per cent more passengers than Delhi metro.
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AMC moves to buy 480 BRTS buses
AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited (AJL), the governing body for Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) operations, is wasting no time in purchasing 480 buses to run on feeder and main routes. The proposal for purchasing the buses has to be sent to the Union urban development ministry to avail the rolling stock fund by June 30 under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
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Snakes surface in posh parts of city
AHMEDABAD: Some posh addresses in the city are reporting new claimants. Or maybe old claimants are returning to haunt the new ones! Suddenly, with monsoons getting closer, snakes are surfacing in these areas taking residents by surprise.
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Nightingale hailed Abads hygienic life
AHMEDABAD: Florence Nightingale, whose caring hand during World War-I made her the famous nurse ever, was also an authority on sanitation. Florence never shared the British officials
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AMC urban housing for poor plan to be replicated in country
AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) plan to build upto 20,000 houses for urban poor in the city is turning out to be a pilot project which will be replicated in other parts of the country as well.
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AMC to crack whip on societies for misusing tree space
AHMEDABAD: Housing societies who have deviated from their commitment of maintaining trees on their premises after obtaining Building Use' (BU) permission are in for a flak.
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Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar Metro project: Is there light at the end of Metro tunnel?
AHMEDABAD: Four years after Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) submitted its feasibility report on Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro in June 2005, there seems to be a renewed buzz in the state urban development ministry. But, if one goes by the DMRC report, a cost of Rs 40 lakh for each day delayed was calculated for the project.
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Delhi Metro to discuss Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar link
AHMEDABAD: The ambitious Rs 7,000-crore Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro rail project has been put on the fast track. A team of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will meet Chief Minister Narendra Modi soon to chalk out a roadmap for the project, including discussions on land availability.
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Green youth dispel plastic myths on CG Road
Ahmedabad : Reduce, reuse and recycle plastic a group of more than 15 youngsters armed with placards and posters, conducted a rally on CG road to promote this thought on Tuesday.
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AMC undertakes drive to clean up ponds
Ahmedabad : Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is carrying out a drive to clean city ponds infested with vegetation located in different municipal zones. These ponds are potential mosquito breeding ground. Already, AMC has cleared Chandola lake in Danilimda and two other ponds in Ramol and Sarkhej.