Chinese company among four bidders for supplying coaches to Ahmedabad Metro

Edit Indian Express 25 Jun 2016
Four metro coach manufacturing firms, including one from China, have come forward to supply metro coaches for the Rs 10,700 crore Ahmedabad Metro project, officials said. “Bombardier, Alstom, South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem and China’s CRRC Corporation Ltd are the four companies who have bid to supply 96 metro coaches. All of them have supplied coaches to metro projects in the country....

WEEK’S END Valentine Museum displays male fashion in Virginia

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 25 Jun 2016
On Monday The Times-Dispatch’s Metro Business section marks its 30th anniversary. For three decades the weekly has chronicled the individuals and institutions who make the local economy hum ... Metro Business has told the stories behind the ......

DMRC to hand over two Metro stations by July-end

Edit The Times of India 25 Jun 2016
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said they would hand over Kalamasserry and Cusat Metro stations to Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) by July-end. There are 16 stations along the Metro route from Aluva to Maharaja's College and according to DMRC officials 60% to 70% of the work is over at most of these stations ... The Metro agency said they would finalize the contract by the time DMRC hands it over to them....

Get off the metro, pedal to work on cycle

Edit The Hindu 25 Jun 2016
The joy of zipping past vehicles on the city's traffic-choked roads on the metro comes to an abrupt stop at your station ... As a pilot project, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is building a dedicated cycle track on the pavement from Baiyappanahalli Metro Station to the nearby RMZ Infinity, a tech park where over 10,000 employees work ... “Both RMZ Inifinity and Namma Metro are very supportive....

Light metro on track, work on 4 flyovers to begin soon

Edit The Times of India 25 Jun 2016
The state government is going ahead with the detailed project report (DPR) submitted by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC) for the Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode light metros ... Officials in the KRTC said DMRC is busy with the works assigned to them, which include preparation of land acquisition plan for metro stations, readying the design and estimate for flyovers and specification of rolling stock for the light metro....

From order to chaos: The onward journey from stations in National Capital region

Edit Indian Express 25 Jun 2016
They are present outside every Metro station in the National Capital Region ... At many Metro stations, passengers are free to choose their own rickshaw ... One of them is Noida Sector 16 Metro station, where only the rickshaw-puller in front of the line calls out to the passenger, while the others behind him wait for their turn ... The “lines” are drawn even more clearly at the Patel Chowk Metro station....

More cycle tracks to tech parks

Edit The Hindu 25 Jun 2016
Bagmane Tech Park, Embassy Golf Links and Millennium Tower Old Philip Building may also be connected by dedicated cycle lanes to the nearest metro stations ... Vasanth Rao, spokesperson for Namma Metro, said that they had ......

120 arrested in undercover drug, prostitution operations

Edit Nashville Tennessean 25 Jun 2016
Metro Police arrested 120 people this week after detective's conducted undercover operations targeting drugs and prostitution.        .   ... ....

Bonita company Metro Forecasting Models aims to predict the future

Edit Naples Daily News 25 Jun 2016
Van Buskirk and David Farmer, two veteran engineers and planners, opened Metro Forecasting Models LLC in Bonita Springs ... Metro Forecasting operates with a crew of six, which includes a software designer, an economist and a research assistant ... The information that's fed into the model is crucial, and Metro Forecasting uses quality data, double- and triple-checking it....

Consumer spending shrinks year-over-year in metro Denver

Edit Denver Post 25 Jun 2016
Spending growth in Denver metro was down 3.7 percent year-over-year in March, according to data released Thursday by JPMorgan Chase Institute ... Here’s a breakdown of the report’s local commerce results ... The decline was more pronounced in Denver at — 14.65 percent — than in all but one of the 14 other metro areas ... In December, it had dropped 18 percent, the largest decline of all 15 metro areas studied ... metro areas....

Light Metro: work on flyovers from this year

Edit The Hindu 25 Jun 2016
The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government has made it clear that Light Metro project in Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode will “proceed on the basis of the Detailed Project Report already prepared by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).”....

No more free rides (Shanghai Municipal Government)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Jun 2016
Shanghai's senior citizens will no longer be able to take buses or the Metro for free starting from tomorrow. Previously, citizens over the age of 70 were entitled to free Metro or bus rides during non-peak hours ......

At Issue: Is rate hike at Clayton County’s Lovejoy landfill justified?

Edit Atlanta Journal 25 Jun 2016
There are eight landfills in the five core metro Atlanta counties ... The public still has the option of taking trash to transfer stations throughout the metro area which, in turn, haul the waste to landfills ... Bob Andres ....
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