Shashank Rao is a Senior Assistant Editor at Hindustan Times. He focuses on themes such as telecommunications, transportation and mobility, and construction and real estate, with a keen interest in public transportation, transportation policy, and traffic management systems. Shashank's work has been featured in Hindustan Times, MSN, and Hindustan Times Syndication.
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By: Shashank Rao
The proposal follows a recent agitation by the BEST Sanyukt Kamgar Kruti Samiti, the joint action committee of employee unions. The committee, in June, had demanded implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission, settlement of pending wage issues and better conditions for contractual and wet-lease workers
BEST has asked manufacturer Switch Mobility to reduce the height of some of the double-deckers it has yet to deliver by 17 centimetres to allow them to operate on routes that pass under the SCLR flyover
While the RLDA, executing the redevelopment of the historic terminus, wants to shut platforms 14 and 15 to allow construction work, the Central Railway (CR) says it wants platforms 16 and 17 to be fully operational first
By: Shashank Rao
MUMBAI: Auto Rickshaw and taxi drivers across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) are expected to start queuing up at authorised meter recalibration
By: Shashank Rao
Drivers have been given until November 30 to complete the recalibration. The revised fares came into effect from September 1, with the minimum auto rickshaw fare increasing from ₹26 to ₹27 and the minimum taxi fare from ₹31 to ₹33 for the first 1.5 km
By: Shashank Rao
India, Sept. 6 -- Auto Rickshaw and taxi drivers across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) are expected to start queuing up at authorised meter
By: Shashank Rao
Following the passenger's death, Gamdevi police took the driver's and conductor's statements and registered an accidental death report
By: Shashank Rao
Mumbai: With the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) earlier this week with the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai for supply of 120 new air-conditioned local trains, railway commuters can look forward to more comfortable journeys with improved seating, enhanced cooling and higher speeds once the new rakes arrive
By: Shashank Rao
IRCTC said 20,06,353 tickets were booked on September 7, surpassing the previous peak of 18,40,203 last year
At a BEST committee members' meeting, helmed by its chairperson Trushna Vishwasrao, on Friday, it was decided that along the lines of the butterfly lights, the members should ideate along three different categories of designs, with Worli being the first spot chosen for such a transformation
