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A fresh look at Mass Public Transport System for city [1]

Monorail will occupy less space, can be completed comparatively early using pre-fabricated structures: RAAC

At a meeting recently, the Residents Awareness Association of Coimbatore (RAAC) asked the Coimbatore Corporation to take up with the State Government the need for a monorail for the city. A presentation made on the occasion said that a city such as Coimbatore, with over a million population, could go in for the mass transport system project, more so when cities with far fewer population and lesser area had taken many steps forward.

Publication Date: 
04/09/2012
Karthik Madhavan [2]
Hindu (Chennai) [3]
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Coimbatore (T) [4], Mono Rail [5], Population [6], Metro [7], Rail Transport [8], Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) [9], Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) [10], Public Transport [11], Transport [12], Tamil Nadu [13]
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[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/bus-rapid-transit-system
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[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/transport
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tamil-nadu