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                  Mumbai Monorail              Integrated CCC for Traffic Management in Raipur
                  phase II flagged                  he   Chhattisgarh   have  been  installed  at   have been installed at 83
                  off                               government has set   strategic locations for better   places in the city where
                  T   he Maharashtra Chief     Tup a hi-tech integrated   surveillance. Intelligent   people can seek help at the
                                                                                                time of an emergency by
                                               Command and  Control
                                                                        (automated) traffic signals
                      Minister
                                 Devendra
                                                                                                just pressing a button.
                                               Centre in Raipur for better
                                                                        have also been put up at
                      Fadnavis flagged off the
                  11.28 km second phase of     Traffic Management and   40 locations, besides 36   The project will be
                                               Surveillance in the city. Set
                  the Chembur-Wadala-Jacob     as part of the Raipur Smart   automatic number plate   operated jointly by the
                  Circle monorail network in   City initiative, the project will   recognition cameras at   transport,  the  police
                  the month of March. This is   take care of safety & security,   six locations and red-light   departments and the city
                  the country’s first monorail                          violation detection  devices   civic body. The system has
                  system implemented by the    traffic management, public   at 23 locations. Devices for   been designed, constructed
                  Mumbai Metropolitan Region   communication, and also to   speed violation and wrong   and  implemented  by
                  Development Authority.       keep the city environment   way movement detection   the Smart World and
                                               green.                   have been put up to ensure   Communication  (SWC)
                   Commissioned  in  Feb  2014,                                                 business unit of Larson and
                  the 8.26km first phase was built   Under  the  project,  strict compliance of traffic   Toubro Construction.
                  and operated by a consortium of   around 372 CCTV cameras   rules. Emergency call boxes
                  Larsen & Toubro and Malaysian
                  firm Scomi Engineering. The
                  monorail’s annual ridership is
                  expected to increase from the
                  current 4.5 lakh to 30 lakh.


















                                               Feeder buses in Noida, Greater Noida
                                               A     iming to increase   introduced 16 new routes   Noida. 50 feeder buses will
                                                                                                be plying on these new
                                                                        for its feeder bus service to
                                                     ridership
                                                                 and
                                                     provide last mile
                                               connectivity, the Noida   cater to all the operational   routes that will replace 13
                                                                                                old operational routes.
                                                                        metro stations on the Aqua
                                               Metro Rail Corporation has   Line in Noida and Greater   The NMRC had started its
                                                                                                city bus service operations
                                                                                                with 20 air-conditioned,
                                                                                                differently-abled friendly
                                                                                                CNG buses under the
                                                                                                Phase-I of the project. With
                                                                                                the addition of more buses
                                                                                                later and the city bus service
                                                                                                will operate with 50 buses.
                                                                                                The mega-project aims to
                                                                                                run a total of 372 buses in
                                                                                                the city.




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