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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BRTS countdown begins, prototype to be ready soon
AHMEDABAD: The 100-day deadline for putting 50 BRTS buses on road is in its last lap
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AMC to get Rs 25 cr for infrastructure
GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat government on Saturday decided to allocate Rs 25 crore each to six municipal corporations, including Ahmedabad, for developing city infrastructure. According to an official release of the state urban development department, AMC has been asked to use the grant for building a four-lane railway over-bridge and a new multistorey building for the LG Hospital from the grant. "In all, we have allocated Rs 150 crore,"urban development minister Nitin Patel said.
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Trend-setter in groundwater recharge
10 Aug 2008, 0433 hrs IST, Vijaysinh Parmar ,TNN AHMEDABAD: When residential societies show consciousness towards the environment by taking initiatives on their own, it's indeed a heartening trend. Manali Apartments, near Indian Institute of Management in Vastrapur, has set an outstanding example of this by implementing an artificial groundwater recharge system. Every drop of rainwater is recharged here.
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Cities evolving fiscal measures to curb vehicular pollution: a fact sheet
Several cities in India including Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, have begun to take steps to implement fiscal measures to address the problem of air pollution and congestion. Though still very nascent, this is a unique and a very important step forward to use market based instrument to influence consumer behaviour and stimulate investments in pollution control efforts and clean technologies. Fiscal measures can help to cushion the cost of transformation, -- improve fuels and technologies and influence people to choose more sustainable travel options like public transport.
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Water woes: Is the city ready?
AHMEDABAD: Sensing the vagaries of nature with rains getting scanty this year in Ahmedabad, officials of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) are chalking out a contingency plan to keep potable water woes away from the city. In the past, Ahmedabad had witnessed water riots over the scarcity of drinking water. To start with, AMC is now constructing 100 percolation wells at AMC premises in six different municipal zones of the civic body within a year.
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Panel okays mixing of hydrogen with CNG
The Standing Committee on Emission Regulation
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Piped gas for small-town Gujarat
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat is often referred to as the
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80 per cent of Ahmedabad traffic heads for Saurashtra: Study
This should not surprise many Amdavadis but a recent intra-state passenger traffic study for 2.18 lakh vehicles revealed that a major portion of the commuters travel between Ahmedabad and Rajkot-Saurashtra region. The study was conducted as part of the ambitious Rs 1,100-crore Ahmedabad-Rajkot Access Controlled Corridor.
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Euro-3 diesel buses take lead in BRTS bid
Ahmedabad: In the final run for winning the contract for the operations and maintenance of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) services, EURO-3 diesel run buses have taken the lead. The bids quoted by the five main operators are in range of Rs 34-Rs 36 per kilometre for EURO-3 diesel bu s e s which is the most economical option available to the Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited(AJL).
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After BRTS, govt goes for A'bad rail
Writes To Centre To Sanction City Railway Network Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: A realization has dawned on Gujarat government that the Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) is not enough to fulfil the mobility plans of mega-city Ahmedabad. A dormant plan for a Regional Rail System (RRS) is now being revived to provide additional transportation infrastructure for the city which is growing by leaps and bounds. The RRS plan was shelved after Delhi Rail Metro Corporation Ltd prepared a feasibility report for Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board (GIDB) in August 2005.