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BRT terminal at Kankaria Lakefront. Photo by Prajna Rao.
Prajna Rao is a transport planner at the Centre for Sustainable Transport in India (CST-India), a member of the EMBARQ Network, which produces this blog. She provides a photographic overview of Ahmedabad’s new BRT system, known as Janmarg, which has garnered recent praise for being a “best practice” of mass transit in Indian cities.
Costing 44 lakhs ($95,000) each, high-quality BRT stations in Ahmedabad signal a well-deserved turnaround in attitudes towards public transport infrastructure in Indian cities. The stations, designed by Prof. Vijay Arya and Prof. Meghal Arya from CEPT University, not only offer a bold image for Ahmedabad’s bus rapid transit brand, but also attest to the system’s efficiency, inclusivity and comfort.
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Cities have been ranked in all kinds of ways. Best places to live, best access to the outdoors, most walkable, most obese, ease of landing a green job, best street art.
Now, there’s a new …
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