Sustainable Urban Mobility Network
In a noteworthy move, the Mayor of Pune, Smt. Mukta Tilak, endorsed the Global Street Design Guidelines (GSDG) making Pune the first Indian city to do so. As a city that recently developed Urban Street Design Guidelines of its own, … Continued
The I-Bus has been recently launched with a pilot BRTS on one route i.e. A B Road with sixteen buses. Seven routes have been identified for I-Bus. The project is an initiative of Atal Indore City Transport Services Limited, Indore … Continued
Make a phone call to the rickshaw operator and negotiate the price by providing details about your starting and destination location. This community dial-a-rickshaw service in Chandigarh city is currently running in 30 sectors or half of Chandigarh city. Navdeep … Continued
By Vinay Sreenivasa Bangalore is a city where 48 lakh out of a total population of 95 lakh people use the bus. Bus-users in Bangalore have a number of issues – high fares, rampant sexual harassment of women in buses, … Continued
SUM Net India held a workshop in Delhi as part of its multi-city and multi-member collaborative journey in continuation of last year. Members from 13 different cities came together to deliberate about challenges and prospect of sustainable transport in their … Continued
This year, SUM Net’s main agenda is to reach out to more organisations, individuals and cities through engaging in urban transportation issues in different cities in India. This exercise started out with an orientation workshop held at Pune for thirteen … Continued
SUM Net member organization Parisar has recently done an analysis of Pune’s municipal budget, and in particular those aspects that relate to transportation investments and expenditures. Here are some highlights: At around 30% of the total municipal budget of Pune, … Continued
By Parisar The draft Master Plan or Development Plan (as they are termed in Maharashtra) for Pune, has been published for suggestions and objections from the public by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). The DP is one of the most … Continued
– Ashok Datar and Trupti Amritwar Vaitla for Mumbai Environmental Social network Bus lane, bus priority or Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) are variations of a common theme. It caught the imagination of Indian cities in the last decade but … Continued
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride – The condition of transport in our cities is hopelessly in disrepair and it will take more than mere slogans and policy pronouncements for it to improve. -Vidyadhar Date When the National Urban … Continued