[Urbanstudy] Mega cities to have 'Unified Metro Transport Authority' soon

[Vinay Baindur]

Mega cities to have 'Unified Metro Transport Authority' soon
3 Dec, 2007,
    NEW DELHI: The Unified Metro Transport Authorities will soon be set-up
in mega cities with a population of more than a million for implementing
urban transport programmes and projects.

This was announced by the Urban Development Secretary M Ramachandran here
today at the inaugural day of Institute of Urban Transport (IUT) Conference
on "Sustainable Urban Transport".

"The present land use and transport policies in India have led to the
excessive use of the personalised modes of transportation that causes
congestion, air pollution and noise," he said.

Terming the Urban Transport as "bloodstream" of the cities, Anwarul Hoda,
Member of Planning Commission, stressed on the need of including private
parties in the sustainable development of urban transport.

"Increasing traffic jams, increasing road accidents, and air pollution level
are the few challenging problems in the urban cities," Dr PS Rana, Patron,
IUT said.

The conference has been organised by IUT in collaboration with Association
of Intelligent Transport System (AITS) and support of the Ministry of Urban
Development (MOUD) to discuss various aspects and options to identify
sustainable urban transport.

The three-day conference will also discuss the progress of ongoing urban
transport projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission.
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