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Road Safety Ads
This is also what we do when the coffee is not served on time kidding apart, some ads for the road safety week!
Why a Transit Website
Transport agencies like MTC, MRTS do a wonderful job of transporting millions of Chennaiites everyday. But their websites have not evolved fast enough for the transport pattern of 5.2 million trips in a area in excess of 600 sq.km expanding Chennai. Websites...
Cost of Incorrectly Positioned Bus Stops
This photo shot was taken in the LB Road Bus Depot. If you think the road has less traffic, then look again and you will realize that the Bus that has stopped, is causing a huge traffic snarl behind. Not to blame the bus, but if the road geometry is...
MTC Website
The main MTC study is taking a bit more time. Meanwhile, we are requesting MTC website embrace the power of Web 2.0 and also share the GPS data online. Once the data is available online, a lot of passengers can plan their city commute without having to...
Chennai Auto Rickshaw Puzzle!
Few topics in Chennai invoke such a similar passionate reaction, Auto Rickshaws! Over the years many permutations & combinations have been tried to arrive at a balanced and accepted ecosystem between the riders and the auto drivers. Some of it has...
Cost of blocking Anna Salai
Why this Analysis? Anna Salai is the lifeline of Chennai. So if there is a need both by choice or by involuntary control to block the lane, we need to have the cognizance of the loses. As a pilot we decided to calculate what would it cost to block one...
Cycle Track
There is a lot of change happening in Chennai infrastructure. Based on the recent Wilbur Smith report 52% of trips in Chennai are short distance trips i.e of <5kms. and currently most of it is done by walk and motorized transport. This adds to the...
Ever realise this about Anna Flyover?
When we drive around Chennai, it is so easy to get lost in the big infrastructure gaps and almost forget the smaller regular loses! Anna Flyover is a classic example, the place has been a point of traffic convergence and intersection for 2 high density...
Chennai Airport – GST Road Decongestion
We have been working on a project that would help the MTC and also reduce the traffic on the GST road. The initial part of the work is to get the number of PCU’s that the airport is feeding into the GST. The statistics are very interesting as you...
