Posts tagged with 'Mumbai'
Spreading Bike Culture in Mumbai: A Matter of Solving Simpler Problems
Spreading Bike Culture in Mumbai: A Matter of Solving Simpler Problems
The Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan inaugurated a 13-kilometer cycling track on April 24  in Mumbai at the Bandra-Kurla Complex, a commercial district that holds the city’s first sports cycling tracks, as part of the BSA Hercules India Cyclothon, a mega cycling ...
Photo by seanpinto.
Public Subsidizes Costly Car-Centric Link to Mumbai
The Bandra-Worli Sea Link, a cable bridge that links Bandra to the western suburbs of Mumbai across one of the region’s many bays, is experiencing greater cost overruns than expected, compounded by lower rates of use and thus less toll ...
Indore's groundbreaking public-private partnership to improve transit is a model for rapidly growing Indian cities. Photo by EMBARQ.
Q&A with Madhav Pai, Part 2: Lessons Learned
This interview is part of a bi-weekly series of Q&As with sustainable transportation advocates, planners, engineers, journalists, sociologists and other experts working to shed light on best practices and solutions from across the globe. We welcome your suggestions for future Q&As. ...
EMBARQ India's new guidebook analyzes Seoul's new bus system. Photo by Bebouchard.
Q&A with Madhav Pai, Part 1: Basic Guidelines for Bus Reforms
This interview is part of a bi-weekly series of Q&As with sustainable transportation advocates, planners, engineers, journalists, sociologists and other experts working to shed light on best practices and solutions from across the globe. We welcome your suggestions for future ...
Separate But Equal: A Winning Policy for Women in Transit?
Separate But Equal: A Winning Policy for Women in Transit?
Women in cities all over the world bear the burden of constantly having to strategize in order to remain safe, comfortable and secure in the face of sexual harassment by men on overcrowded public transport. Depending on their profession, geography and ...
Megacities on the Move: Scenarios for the Future of Sustainable Urban Mobility
Megacities on the Move: Scenarios for the Future of Sustainable Urban Mobility
Originally posted on EMBARQ.org “Cities need to start planning now to radically re-engineer their infrastructure to cope with much larger populations than they currently support,” concludes a new report released last week by Forum for the Future, a U.K.-based sustainable ...
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