Metro

While several cities across the world have revived their tramways, Kolkata naively ignored its tramways and witnesses the last days of this non-polluting and once-efficient mode of transport. Read this special report in Down To Earth.

Kolkata witnesses the last days of a non-polluting and once-efficient mode of transport, while trams make a comeback in cities around the world.

Publication Date:

15/03/2011

Author(s): Sayantan Bera

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

19

Issue:

20

pp:

0

Tags:

Calcutta (T), Infrastructure Development, Light Rail Transit, Metro, Public Transport, Rail Transport, Trams, Transport, Urban Transport, West Bengal, Kolkata

Transport

Juhu-Bandra residents upset over elevated 2nd Metro route

MUMBAI: Citizens' groups in the Juhu-Bandra area are getting ready for a long drawn battle with the MMRDA over the issue of an underground section of the second Metro line-Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd.

Publication Date:

03/08/2009

Source: Times Of India (Mumbai)

Tags:

Pollution, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Urban Transport, Metro, Maharashtra, Mumbai

Metro bags Rs 819 crore

With construction of Delhi Metro's second phase on full-stream, and the first section between Dilshad Garden and Shahdara up for completion by the year-end, the state budget has allocated a sum of R

Publication Date:

25/03/2008

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Economy, Public Transport, Metro, Delhi, Planning Commission

Transport