Public Transport and Mobility

Round Table conference on Funding Strategies for Bus Transport held on December 18, 2012 in Delhi

Buses provide the bulk of public transport services in many Indian cities. Its share in daily travel in bigger cities can be as high as 40-60 per cent. Cities are looking at bus transport reforms to reduce auto mobile dependence, congestion, and pollution. Cities like Delhi are setting such high targets as 80 per cent public transport share by 2020, but such a goal can be met only if bus transport is scaled up.

Grassroots forum: Orientation Workshop on Solutions to pollution and mobility crisis for liveable cities

CSE and HSBC announce partnership to give an impetus to environmental governance in India

Will set up a premier Environmental Training Institute near Delhi

BRT - Missed the bus for cars

 Anumita Roychowdhury, Right To Clean Air Campaign

BRT - Missed the bus for cars

-- Anumita Roychowdhury, Right To Clean Air Campaign

Take a bus……

Bus, walk and cycle power India’s mobility. Yet rapid motorization is snuffing life out of cities. Can Delhi and other cities reinvent the dream of mobility to get out of this urban nightmare? This needs inventive thinking, action and confidence to break out of the arrogance of old ideas!

Rs 80-crore parking facility in Sarojini Nagar draws very few cars, forces a rethink of Delhi’s parking policy: says CSE

• CSE releases findings on parking in Sarojini Nagar and the lessons from it

• Says without a clear strategy, expensive parking structures can neither reduce parking chaos nor parking demand

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CSE workshop: 'Our Right of Way: Walk and Cycle'

CSE’s clean air and urban mobility team organized a workshop ‘Our Right of Way: Walk and Cycle’ in New Delhi on March 22, 2012. This discussion forum included participants from all the key organsiations, stakeholders, civil society representatives, policy makers bicycle industries, cycle clubs and regulators. All witnessed the different source of knowledge at one go from different stakeholders.

One third of Delhi walks to work, but are our roads designed for safe walking and cycling? Latest CSE survey findings say no

• Delhi has yet to wake up the mobility crisis. Increased use of cars is reducing people carrying capacity of roads.

• Total walk and cycle trips are more than double the share of car trips.