A day before the review meeting for the under-construction Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor, Times City took a drive from Moolchand to Delhi Gate only to find that the part of the corridor which has already been constructed as per the earlier design will have to be razed for trials to begin. After the Moolchand crossing, lane segregation has been completed till CGO complex in accordance with the design of Pilot A.

The government claim is proving false to take the passengers to their destination at the earliest in the name of Bus Rapid Transit(BRT) corridor.

This requires the courage to push new approaches but even the Nobel Prize favours the cautious.

It is the failure or unwillingness of the authorities to encourage segregation of the slow and the fast moving traffic on the roads that has compounded the chaos on the roads -Tukoji R Pandit

Q&A/ M Ramachandran The Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) may have failed to charm the Delhi commuter, but it is working well in many cities around the world. About Rs 3,500 crore have been committed from the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for its introduction in another 8-10 Indian cities. Urban Development Secretary M Ramachandran discusses the system with Anjuli Bhargava and the steps necessary to make it work: Which cities are suited to an MRTS and which ones to a BRTS?

Contrary to claims made by the Delhi urban development minister Raj Kumar Chauhan on Monday, the flyover plan to decongest the pilot Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor is very much on. The transport department has ordered a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the project on Wednesday and construction is expected to start soon.

According to sources, the traffic volume factored for the BRT project was based on two-year-old figures.

It's official now. By deciding to provide more space to cars and doing away with medians in the BRT stretch beyond Moolchand, the government has virtually admitted that the apprehensions expressed by TOI since 2006 about the project were well-informed and valid. We had our ear to the ground with inputs from experts and our readers.

After having identified the glitches which had caused chaos during the trial run of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand last month, the Delhi government is now all set to start work on the second phase between Moolchand and Delhi Gate. This decision was taken at a high-level meeting last evening in which all the stake holders participated and analysed the reasons for the fiasco on the experimental stretch which had forced the Delhi government to put all the other BRT projects on hold.

At a time when the price of crude is on the boil, above 120 dollar per barrel, and projected to go even higher, Delhi is all set to bid adieu to a "modern and scientifically planned Bus Rapid Transit system' that according to its authors could have provided a cheap, safe and reliable mass transport system to the people.