Can't miss the bus

Public transport is the only answer to congestion and pollution The present crisis demands new solutions. And the solution is public transport, for space to accommodate cars is limited and

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Vehicular Pollution, Climate Mitigation, Public Transport, Cars, High Capacity Bus, Metro, Parking Policy, Parking Pricing, Congestion, Colombia, India, Delhi

 BRT users

The city of Bogota, Columbia, is famous for its BRT project. This is one of the first successful BRT models, and the Delhi BRT is based on it. The BRT system in Bogota, TransMilenio, carries over

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Climate Mitigation, Public Transport, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), High Capacity Bus, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Delhi

 Act fast

The BRT concept cannot be abandoned The clock is ticking fast. Roads in Indian cities are getting saturated by vehicles. There is no option but to build a public transport system efficient and

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Transport

 Minority rule

the common wisdom of electoral democracy might call for politicians, specialising in arithmetic, who can identify the biggest number. But the post-modern understanding of electoral politics may demand integrating a small number of voters whose limit to power is tending towards infinity! Let us look at how a few road dividers on a stretch of 19 km in Delhi have completely divided the urban classes (see page: 32-38).

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Public Transport, Urban Transport, Cars, High Capacity Bus, Media, Press, Political Parties, Politics, India, Delhi

 No public transport?

On April 21, a small stretch of road in a congested corner of south Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world, turned into an epicentre of chaos, confusion and downright indignation.

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Vehicular Pollution, Health Effects, Climate Mitigation, Transport, Public Transport, Urban Transport, Cars, High Capacity Bus, Parking Policy, Parking Pricing, Congestion, Congestion Pricing, Traffic Accidents, India, Delhi

 Caravan to disaster

A Down To Earth report on the unsustainable growth of personal vehicles. This situation could have been averted had public transport not been neglected.

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Vehicular Pollution, Health Effects, Public Transport, Cars, High Capacity Bus, Congestion, Congestion Pricing, Traffic Accidents, India, Delhi
Water Supply

 From water to water

Look out of the window the next time you travel by road or by train anywhere in India. Hit a human settlement, and you will see, heaps of plastic coloured garbage apart, pools of dirty black water and drains that go nowhere. They go nowhere because we have forgotten a basic fact: if there are humans, there will be excreta. Indeed, we have also forgotten another truth about the so-called modern world: if there is water use, there will be waste. Roughly 80 per cent of the water that reaches households flows out as waste.

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30/05/2008
Sunita Narain
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Water Pollution, Water Conservation, Water Treatment Technology, Water Harvesting, Water Demand, Sewage Pollution, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Wastewater Recycling, Water Supply, India, Delhi
Sanitation

Not enough water? Manufacture some, says Israel

India could learn a thing or two from Israel when it comes to supplying municipal water to meet ever-rising demands. "Manufactured water' is probably the ideal solution, says Mo Provizor, director of the Israeli Water Authority. Speaking to The Indian Express on the sidelines of WATECH 2008, an international conference on industrial and urban water management technologies, he said Israel currently meets about 25 per cent of its water needs with recycled sewage water and desalinated seawater and brackish water; it has hopes of upping the number to 50 per cent by 2013.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2008
Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Desalination, Sewage Pollution, Waste Treatment, Israel, Delhi, Waste Recycling
Health

Nicotine monitors released

After several hurdles, a consignment of air-monitoring devices that calculate nicotine levels in buildings has finally reached the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD), which is coordinating with the Health Ministry in its fight against tobacco. With the aim of making Delhi, Chennai, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad smoke-free, Johns Hopkins University sent 160 air-nicotine monitors

Publication Date: 
30/05/2008
Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Air Pollution, Tobacco, Health Effects, Air Quality Monitoring, Tuberculosis, Delhi
Transport

Red the new colour of comfort for Delhi

The Capital will take another major leap in the field of public transportation with induction of air-conditioned buses into the Delhi Transport Corporation fleet this coming week. These red low-floor buses will hopefully draw more and more users of cars and other private vehicles over to the public transport system. The new air-conditioned buses would provide the citizens a more comfortable mode of travel, especially in the hot and humid summer months. According to Delhi Transport Minister Haroon Yusuf, these would form the first lot of air-conditioned buses to be inducted into the DTC.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2008
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Public Transport, Urban Transport, Bus Regulations, Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), Delhi

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