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.

This month, a pedestrian activist in Bangalore lost her life in a road accident. But the fight goes on.

The Punjab government has diverted Rs1 billion development funds for Rawalpindi district to Metro Bus Project for twin cities of Rawalpindi-Islamabad.

This Planning Commission report is devoted to setting the conditions for a coherent transport strategy for India in the long term: the horizon is 2032, two decades from the beginning of the country's 12th Five Year Plan to the end of its 15th

State Road Transport Undertakings (SRTUs) in India provide for the mobility of people by offering passenger services. The performance review of these SRTUs is generally made by assessing their physical and financial parameters.

This new study by IIT, Bombay examines the existing road‘s safety performance and suggest various suitable traffic control and management measures to enhance safety and mobility of proposed 15.5 km BRTS corridor in Pune.

The Transport Ministry has formulated the draft Urban Transport Master Plan for the Colombo Metropolitan Region and the suburbs to address issues in the transport sector including heavy congestion in the Colombo city within the next 20 years.

This 2013 review of developments in Transport in Asia and the Pacific looks at emerging trends in transport in the region and presents initiatives, including those of ESCAP, that are making transport systems cleaner, safer, more efficient, and more affordable.

The government on Wednesday approved the widening of highways in Maharashtra and Punjab, which entails investments of over R3,000 crore.

Noida: Dedicated cycle tracks in the city, part of the dream project of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, no longer seem to serve the purpose for which they were constructed.

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