The BRTS Indore which has earned condemnation for its faulty “designs”, has been selected for an International Sustainable Transport award 2014. Indore is among four cities in the world which has been selected for this prestigious global award in recognition to its contribution in developing a viable public transport system.
Apart from Indore, the other cities which have been selected for this coveted award include Buenos Aires (Argentina), lenzo (China) and Suwan (South Korea).
The award will be presented to it in a function at Washingaton DC soon. Information to this effect was given in a meeting of the Atal Indore City Transport Services limited held at the collectorate here on Monday.
The meeting among others was attended by Indore collector Akash Tripathi, AICTSl CEO Sandeep Soni, IMC commissioner Rakesh Singh and other senior officials of Indore Municipal Corporation and the Indore Development Authority.
As decided in the meeting, apart from the i-buses, 20 new buses will be plied on the BRTS corridor on lease basis. Apart from this, the AICTSl will also ply 52 new additional buses on other routes across the city. Decision was also taken to run modern bicycles on the adjoining bicycle track parallel to BRTS corridor for the convenience of city people on rent basis.
Collector Akash Tripathi directed the officials concerned to reach an agreement with private bodies for the maintenance of bus stops on the BRTS corridor and carry out the repair works and install iron railings on the BRTS corridor which have either been damaged or removed by the anti-social elements. He asked officials to take stringent action against those who are found to be damage iron railing.
On the issue of running bicycles on the bicycle track of BRTS corridor, AICTSl CEO Sandeep Soni said that tenders for plying modern bicycles on the bicycle track of the corridor will be issued on December 12.
He said in the beginning of the project, about 300 bicycles will plied from 30 bus stations at the BRTS corridor. On the issue of installation of ATM machines at the BRTS bus stops, Soni said that an agreement to this effect has been reached with parties concerned and work order for the same would be issued soon.