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Public transport: The bus and the car [1]

Public transport service should live up to certain acceptable standards of quality, comfort and safety before it could gain public patronage. There are of course costs involved, but the people and their quality of life must come first if we destroy public transport we shall be condemned to re-invent it-but at a huge price in terms of environmental degradation, loss of time, traffic jams and the denial of the joys of urban living.

Publication Date: 
31/12/2007
Sudarsanam Padam [2]
Indian Journal of Transport Management [3]
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Tags:
Vehicular Pollution [4], Diesel [5], Transport [6], Public Transport [7], Urban Transport [8], Cars [9], Auto Industry [10], Tata Motors [11], India [12]
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