Além da bela vista para a cidade do Rio de Janeiro e o ar fresco da Floresta da Tijuca, os ciclistas que frenquentam a Estrada da Vista Chinesa, ganharam hoje (12) um incentivo a mais para a prática do esporte. Sete quilômetros da via, que é um dos trechos mais freqüentados na floresta, contam com…
Author: Nneka Njoku
Rio – A partir deste domingo, os sete quilômetros da Estrada da Vista Chinesa – um dos trechos mais frequentados por ciclistas na Floresta da Tijuca – vão ganhar sinalização especial (avisos e placas orientando motoristas e ciclistas para o uso compartilhado da via). A quilometragem vai ser indicada a cada 500 metros, pinturas no…
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Like most thoroughfares in booming cities of the developing world, Bogotá’s Seventh Avenue resembles a noisy, exhaust-coated parking lot — a gluey tangle of cars and the rickety, smoke-puffing private minibuses that have long provided transportation for the masses. But a few blocks away, sleek red vehicles full of commuters speed down…
Celebrated Colombian urbanist and former mayor of Bogotá Enrique Peñalosa told a standing room audience of more than one hundred people at the San Francisco Public Library last night that San Francisco can be friendly to cars or to people, but not both. Further, he argued that there is no fundamental technical reason why streets…
As Senate lawmakers launch new efforts to curb the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, some key members have joined local transportation officials and environmentalists to ask a seemingly relevant question: Where’s the commitment to public transit? House lawmakers last month passed a proposal designed to tackle climate change by creating a cap-and-trade system to limit greenhouse…
Six-year-old Rashmi walked up to the podium, set up close to CG Road, and broke into an impromptu jig. As a singer belted out Bollywood number Hum to aise hai bhaiya’, the girl danced, with a huge audience cheering her on. CG Road was more like carnival road on Sunday. The car-free day, organised by…
There wasn’t anything unusual this Sunday, except that all roads led to the CG Road which was, for a change, transformed into a walkers’ paradise, thanks to city’s traffic police department, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and aProach, an NGO, which decided to make a part of the city not only think green, but act…
બાળકો મુકત રીતે રમી શકે તે માટે એક દિવસ માટે સીજી રોડને ટ્રાફિક ફ્રી કરાયો શેરી નાટક-ડાન્સના કાર્યક્રમ નાગરિકો અને બાળકોમાં રોડ સેફિ્ટ અંગે જાગૃતિ લાવવા ટ્રાફિક વિભાગ અને મ્યુનિસિપલ કોર્પોરેશન દ્વારા સીજી રોડ પર કાર્યક્રમ ‘અ વોકર્સ પેરેડાઇઝ’નું આયોજન કરવામાં આવ્યું હતું. તે અંતર્ગત શેરી નાટક, ડાન્સ અને પોલીસ બેન્ડ સહિત સંગીતના કાર્યક્રમો જોવા…
The Delhi High Court has restrained the Municipal Corporation of Delhi from taking any punitive action against unlicensed rickshaw pullers driving licensed cycle rickshaws in the Capital. The Court said in the order that no licensed rickshaw being driven by an unlicensed rickshaw-puller would be challaned, seized or impounded by the MCD solely on the…