A parliamentary panel on Wednesday declared the metro bus project in twin cities as a major environmental hazard for the beauty of the capital, and raised questions about the violation of the Publi

Many citizens gathered outside the National Press Club, on Sunday, to protest against the ongoing metro bus project.

Rising maintenance cost and alleged lack of support from the state government and the civic body are making it difficult for the state road transport corporation to maintain and utilize buses suppl

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has accelerated work on Peshawar Rapid Mass Transit System to ease the traffic pressure on the main thoroughfares in the provincial metropolis.

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has constituted a committee headed by former MNA Hanif Abbasi to monitor working of the Islamabad Metro Bus project.

Pune: Facing widespread criticism for trimming a pedestrian island at the UoP junction last week, the Pune Municipal Corporation on Monday compensated for its haphazard action by reconstructing the

To be on the lines of Cabinet Committee on Investments for speedy decision making

The Planning Commission is firming up a proposal for setting up a Cabinet committee on transport, a move that could lead to speedy decision making in the sector. The proposed committee will be on the lines of Cabinet Committee on Investments (CCI) that was established last year. A decision, however, will be taken only by the new Planning Commission, which will be constituted after the April-May general elections.

This new World Bank report quantifies the health losses from road deaths and injuries worldwide, as part of the path-finding Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. Combined with the deaths arising from vehicle pollution, the road transport death toll exceeds that of, for example, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or diabetes

Two years back, Gita Vir, a civic activist, died when she was hit by a motorcycle while she was crossing a road.

Courting better footpaths

While walking to her workplace in Bangalore, Jenny Pinto encounters electrical transformers, uncovered manholes and displaced tiles. After years of trying to nudge people into action for walkers’ rights, Pinto has realized one thing. “That unless citizens take a legal route to make civic authorities understand the importance of walkability, safe roads have no chance,” she says. A designer and a resident of Indiranagar, 53-yearold Pinto did just that by filing a petition last April with the Karnataka high court seeking directions to the government to build better footpaths.

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