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Airport-City bus links: What Bangalore can teach Chennai
Reaching the major rail or air terminal in a city in India is a challenge – so is the task of getting home from these transport hubs. But in Bangalore, the BMTC has laid the foundation for a bus… more →
Straphangers United
Airport-City bus links: What Bangalore can teach Chennai
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 month ago: Reaching the major rail or air terminal in a city in India is a challenge – so is the task of … more →
MRTS, Chennai suburban rail problems highlighted on The Hindu website
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 2 months ago: The Hindu carries a slideshow on the many problems afflicting the MRTS and the Chennai suburban rail … more →
Straphanger Updates on Chennai transit coming back, in a big way!
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 5 months ago: I realise that this blog has not been updated in a while. That’s partly because of attention d … more →
Chennai 2008: Experts ignore the low hanging fruit
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: A group of experts whose comments on Chennai’s transport mess are reported by The Hindu today … more →
SUV kills pedestrian: Just who is in charge of Chennai traffic?
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: The Times of India has devoted a lot of coverage today to the death of a pedestrian on Harrington Ro … more →
Chennai Volvo service: MTC gets this part right for once
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: Chennai’s Metropolitan Transport Corporation seems to have got this one right, at least in the … more →
Beach - Velachery MRTS schedules disappear in stations
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: On a trip to Kasturba Nagar earlier this evening on the Beach – Velachery MRTS, the most notic … more →
Chennai MTC absenteeism rises, bus trips stagnate
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: The Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) in Chennai is not known to be a transparent organisatio … more →
Chennai walk-a-thon unites walking classes, hawkers
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: Straphangers United participated in the well-attended Chennai Walk-a-Thon organised by Walking Class … more →
MTC's cosmetic changes ignore real passenger demands
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Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: There are very few Volvo buses being operated in Chennai. Until such comfortable buses become … more →
Uncommon ground: Dinesh Mohan views strengthen walkers' case
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Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: We are happy to endorse wholeheartedly the pro-pedestrian and pro-cyclist views expressed by Profess … more →
Chennai gridlock gets some media attention
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: People using Chennai’s roads today would have realised the futility of trying to move from one … more →
Can Chennai handle the sophistication of a Metro rail?
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Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: If this is the state near a "Metro" station, the tunnels will fill up with muck At the ris … more →
Chennai Beach-Velachery MRTS Timetable 2008
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Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: This is the timetable for services operating on the Beach – Velachery Mass Rapid Transit Syste … more →
Soaring fuel prices: Manmohan, Chidambaram sit on their hands
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: Volvo services in Bangalore and Chennai are few, and carry a handful of passengers because tickets a … more →
DMK Government and bus fares
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: Transport Minister K.N.Nehru has been speaking about the DMK Government being concerned about the in … more →
More evidence: high petrol price makes public transport attractive
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: The New York Times reports today that in the land of the automobile, public transport is now sought … more →
Will you dump your car to take a bus in the BRT corridor?
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: That was the question posed on the discussion forum of one of the bigger newspapers in the country, … more →
MTC gets Volvo strategy hopelessly wrong
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Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: Volvo-built buses have been operating on some MTC routes in Chennai for a few months now. These … more →
