Transport department
Recently, in a conclave held in the city, speakers highlighted that the master plans for Bangalore are just decorative documents with little significance or people connect. PN Sreenivasachari, principal secretary of the transport department on damning previous comprehensive development plans (CDPs) drawn up by the BDA said, there is no idea that all are being [...] Continue Reading »
Bhubaneswar: The state housing and urban development department (H&UD) will soon be given the authority of regulating the public transport services in Bhubaneswar and other urban areas of Odisha. At present, the transport department is controlling the activities of public transports. But once implemented, the H&UD department will be controlling the activities like setting fare [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi- North India’s first monorail project seems to get clearance by the state cabinet shortly. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit directed the Transport department to table the proposal in the next meeting of the Delhi Cabinet. The 11-km-long monorail project of Delhi government, from Shastri Park Metro Station to Trilokpuri has been planned to have 12 [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- The upcoming developmental works related to the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation and UT department will face many problems if house tax is not paid on residential projects. Union government informed UT department about not granting any amount if there is non implementation of house tax. Knowing this Shivraj Patil, UT administrator and Punjab governor also demanded [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- The city will now see different lanes for about 160 roads as the ‘ Disaster Management Lanes‘ by the end of this year. A person driving on these lanes at the time of disaster will be punished. The lanes will be designed with 3.5-meters and will be painted blue in colour on the [...] Continue Reading »
A meeting of the special task force (STF) on Monday has revealed most people agreed that a parking policy was needed. This was after the transport department sought views on a hike in parking rates. The STF had proposed a peak-hour rate of Rs 50 for three hours. While the charge for the first three [...] Continue Reading »
Once East Coast Road (ECR) was the pride of Chennai but because of encroachments by builders, unauthorised on-street parking and extensive damage due to water pipeline laying work has made it into a deathtrap for pedestrians. In the last three years about 60 pedestrians were killed by speeding vehicles as unauthorised construction have shrunk the [...] Continue Reading »
