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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Drive your car alongside BRTS road, pay for it
Ahmedabad : If you were to use your car on the carriageway alongside BRTS, whenever it is launched, you might have to pay for parking. Free parking will soon be a dream. Transport reforms being worked out under the National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP) as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) will make every private vehicle user pay for using its infrastructure.
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Bicycle track along BRTS route
Ahmedabad : The need for a bicycle track is vital as a study conducted by the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) on the travel patterns of almost eight lakh cyclists indicates that even the best of newly-designed roads in our city is only 57 per cent safe for them during peak traffic hours.
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How about a stroll at car-free Vastrapur lake?
AHMEDABAD: Imagine a lazy, wintry Sunday evening at the Vastrapur Lake. Only, there are no cars or auto-rickshaws, no traffic jams, no obnoxious emissions, no honking of horns tearing your ear drums. Just, pedestrians and cyclists thronging the area.
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'No car zone' for a day
Ahmedabad : Are you prepared to leave your car home and choose public transport for a day? It could be a Sunday or any weekday of the month. This could happen if the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the traffic police with people's co-operation identify a stretch in the city as
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AMC yet to set speed limits for buses
AHMEDABAD : In the coming week, the Ahmedabad Municipal Tranport Service (AMTS) would install Global Positioning System (GPS) in 200 buses both owned by AMTS and private buses. But a key factor that has been ignored in the process is the safety of operation of buses on city roads.
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Ride your bicycle beside the BRTS
Ahmedabad : The city could well get to see its first bicycle lanes by 2009. The entire network of BRTS corridor will have bicycle lanes alongside by then. These will be no ordinary lanes occupied by squatters or hawkers. It will be an exclusive zone for those who want to pedal hard.
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On BRTS road, pedestrian is king
Ahmedabad : It is not be long before you could stop a barrage of vehicles heading your way while you cross a busy road in Ahmedabad
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BRTS was an obstacle race against time
Ahmedabad: When JNNURM was launched by Government of India, Ahmedabad BRTS was first-of-its-kind in the country. For the first six months, we were hunting for an agency in this country that could appraise our project.
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AMCs tinkering delays BRTS project by 3 months
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Ahmedabad metro rail project put on fast track
Vinay Umarji / Vadodara November 14, 2008, 0:39 IST Gujarat CM asks DMRC to modify detailed project report. Even while the work on Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) is in process, Ahmedabad might its own metro rail sooner than expected.