Public Transport

The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) will take steps for safety of vehicle-users as per the recommendations of IIT Bombay, before starting the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on the Pune-Mumbai highway. The civic body had commissioned the Rs 16-lakh study. The IIT team has submitted a safety audit report to the civic body. As […]

In Pune, BRTS as a project is used for getting political mileage. It is true that the BRTS lane on the Swargate-Hadapsar route has become a nuisance and threat to people’s life. As a concept, BRTS is very good and is considered to be the most economical mass transport system, but only if it is

The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s (PCMC) standing committee on Tuesday approved Rs10 crore for the construction of 26 more bus stations for the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in the PCMC area. The civic administration tabled the proposal in this regard before the standing committee meeting on an urgent basis. The bus stations will be

The city has poor facilities for bicycle users and pedestrians. Besides, use of private vehicles is quite high as compared to public transport, while road safety continues to be a cause of concern. All this have been reflected in the first of its kind citizens’ Transportation Status Report (TSR) brought out by Parisar and Save

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will not be able to start bus operations on the two Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) corridors on March 1. PMC’s standing committee chairman admitted that it will be difficult for the civic body to start bus operations on Alandi Road and Ahmednagar BRTS corridors by March 1. PMPML Chairman

Penalised For Safety Breach, Tax Evasions The regional transport office (RTO) of Pune collected Rs 75 lakh from owners of over 2,400 private luxury buses in the last 11 months for safety violations and nonpayment of taxes.The RTO squads carried out inspection drives at major highways to check for violations like non-renewal of bus permits,

It was in the 1980’s when 18-year-old Shila Dawre, first decided on doing something that her peers would not dream of—driving. Not many women were encouraged to take up a male-dominated profession then, but Dawre was adamant that she would do something out-of-the box. So in 1988, she left her home in Parbhani district and

पुणे : पुणे व पिंपरी चिंचवडमधील सर्व १० आगार व प्रमुख १२ बसस्थानकांचे सेफ्टी आॅडिट करण्याचा निर्णय पुणे महानगर परिवहन महामंंडळाने (पीएमपी) घेतला आहे. कात्रज बसस्थानकात झालेल्या अपघाताच्या पार्श्वभूमीवर हे पाऊल उचलण्यात आल्याची माहिती पीएमपीचे प्रभारी अध्यक्ष व व्यवस्थापकीय संचालक डॉ. श्रीकर परदेशी यांनी सोमवारी दिली. कात्रज बसस्थानकात झालेल्या बस अपघातात दोघांचा बळी गेला होता.

Contractors claim many leave the job as they are unable to grasp technicalities; PMPML has to keep repeating trainings There is clearly no end in sight for the long saga of travails on the city’s Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) -despite the recent opening of the spanking new Sangamwadi Vishrantwadi corridor under Pune Municipal Corporation