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The 23km long Lucknow metro project – from Chowdhary Charan Singh airport to Munshipulia crossing – in phase 1A project will have 22 stations, 19 elevated and three underground. The total cost of the project is pegged at ` 6,928Cr. Almost 60% funding will come from European Investment Bank (EIB). Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation has announced that it has completed ...

RailTel Corporation of India Limited (RCIL) under the Railway Ministry had signed an agreement with Mahataa Information India Pvt Ltd (MIIPL), a subsidiary of Google Inc to provide Wi-Fi facility at 400 railway stations in two phases. Non-suburban stations with an annual passenger earning of more than Rs 60Cr are categorised as A1 stations. Phase one will cover 100 of ...

The government is setting up 30 water ports on the Ganga as inland waterways will be a “game- changer” for increasing exports and reducing cost of goods as well as passenger traffic. Developing waterways are very important for India as only 3.50% of goods & passenger traffic is on water. In China it is 47%, in Korea it is 43% ...

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has introduced a system by which one can check the complete history of a car by sending an SMS to 7738299899, a helpline number. The helpline number can be used by the government authorities as well, who sometimes struggle to find the details of a particular car. The number combined with a new ...

Noida’s roads will soon undergo a major face lift. Modern bus queue shelters and tech-savvy public conveniences will soon form part of the city’s street-scape. Tenders for 90 modern bus queue shelters have been initiated. The project has been vetted by IIT-Delhi. The shelter will be disabled friendly and have provision for lighting and branding. Being done in a big ...

The recently opened multi-level parking in Raipur, Chhattisgarh has been built on land of 5,200sqft for vehicle owners coming for shopping and business purpose. The space can accommodate about 200 four-wheelers and 400 two-wheelers. The parking lot has lower and upper basement, ground floor and first floor, built during first phase and third floor is proposed for second phase.

Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in the US has awarded a $1.32m contract to researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) to design and develop sensors that can harvest and convert energy created by moving vehicles on roadways into renewable electricity. TxDOT has awarded the contract as part of the ...

In a major move to deter plying of overloaded vehicles on highways, the National Highways Authority of India has decided to force them off the roads till the extra load is removed at the cost and risk of the transporters. There would also be levying penal charges of ten times the applicable fee at the toll plazas that is presently ...

Highway Advisory System (HAS) is a free-to-air information distribution system providing real-time highway traffic and information bulletin to make the travelling experience on our National Highways safer, faster and enjoyable. To begin with, HAS is going to be implemented on a pilot basis on the Delhi-Jaipur Highway. The salient features are real-time traffic information including any congestion & slowdown on ...

The Mohali Municipal Corporation has made an offer to the police to install CCTV cameras to regulate traffic and ensure enforcement of the traffic rules in the city. Generally, drivers remove their helmets or seat belts soon after entering Mohali from Chandigarh the traffic police often fail to check on them. Mayor Kulwant Singh said that as Mohali was located ...