Perspective – Whose city is it anyway

Mr Raj Cherubal, Director-Projects of Chennai City Connect is writing a weekly column on city infrastructure in Times Property. Read on Times Property site WHOSE CITY IS IT ANYWAY RAJ CHERUBAL gives us a glimpse of how successful Corporations from across...

Perspective – Woes of free parking

Mr Raj Cherubal, Director-Projects of Chennai City Connect is writing a weekly column on city infrastructure in Times Property. WOES OF FREE PARKING RAJ CHERUBAL offers a glimpse of effective parking solutions in cities across the world… If the Corporation...

Why can’t we – ERP

Now that Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (UMTA) is a reality it is time to start thinking of what exactly UMTA would do. In a series called “Why can’t we”, this website hopes to catalyze that discussion. The earlier post was...

Public Transport and Public Spaces

The importance of Public space around Metro and BRTS stations, interchanges and other mobility hubs cannot be stressed enough. Success of public transportation depends disproportionately on access which basically means the humble footpaths, decent bus...

Why can’t we – Service Lanes

While the photos below load …. why can’t our arterial, broad roads have service lanes? Are they so difficult to design? Courtesy my colleague Ms Shreya G., what you see below is one example of service lanes from Guangzhou, China. (Guangzhou...

A quiet revolution in Bangalore

There is a quiet revolution in traffic management going on in Bangalore. Ashwin Mahesh and his Mapunity team along with some really smart and committed officers of the Bangalore traffic police are putting some very cutting edge systems in place to manage...

ITDP team in Chennai

August 29, 2010toAugust 30, 2010Exciting news. Mr Michael Replogle, Global Policy Director and Founder and Mr Walter Hook, Executive Director will be visiting Chennai on 29th and 30th of August, 2010. More about Michael and Walter. In the short time CCC...

Harrington-Sterling Road Improvement

Happy to inform you that we will be helping Corporation of Chennai (CoC) with design and upgrading of the Nungambakkam Road (from Harrington Road, Sterling Road to the Sangeetha Restaurant junction). The Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited...

Presentation to Mayor and Councilors

Recently Chennai City Connect (CCC) did something new, at least for us. We organized a presentation for the Mayor of Chennai and Chennai Corporation Councilors by the team from Gehl Architects. Gehl team was represented by Henning Thomsen and Jeff Risom....

Cycle lanes are a symbol of democracy

Another good article from Ajai Sreevatsan of the Hindu CHENNAI: There used to be a time when riding the wind on a bicycle was a highpoint in one’s childhood. But as the city developed and narrow cycle lanes gave way to concrete flyovers, many...