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Chennai - A Global Smart City in Making

Chennai - A Global Smart City in Making
Start Date :
Sep 16, 2015
Last Date :
Nov 16, 2015
00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Corporation of Chennai is preparing a proposal towards Smart City Challenge which would include city wide smart urban solutions as well as identification of areas within the city ...

Corporation of Chennai is preparing a proposal towards Smart City Challenge which would include city wide smart urban solutions as well as identification of areas within the city for its implementation.

The proposal would be defined primarily based on voice of Chennai residents. An extensive citizen engagement programme is established by Corporation of Chennai to document the views and concernsfor the same.

Residents may post their opinion and ideas on civic services such as transport, parking, water supply, sanitation, energy, housing, IT solutions,health, education, safety and security. Your views, opinion and solutions on urban issues faced by Chennai would not only support a better tomorrow for Chennaites, it will also make Chennai a strong contender for getting shortlisted as one of the first 20 cities in India to implement Smart City Solutions in Phase 1.

Chennai citizen and community is its biggest strength. Let’s participate to make this proposal inclusive and meaningful for every common man, every citizen.

The last date to submit your comments is 15th November, 2015.

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Meganathan_3
Meganathan_3 10 years 7 months ago
• Obstructed pavements due to illegal (or legal) car parking, poor design, or uncollected rubbish • No protection from harsh climatic conditions • Lack of pedestrian-support infrastructure such as street lighting • Pedestrian overcrowding due to narrow or below-capacity pavements • High levels of robbery, assault, and other types of crime befalling Pedestrians
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Meganathan_3 10 years 7 months ago
Complete lack of pedestrian pavements • Poor quality of pavements, often of dirt or mud • No physical separation from high levels of traffic and from high-speed traffic • Extreme levels of noise and air pollution • Lack of infrastructure for crossing streets
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Meganathan_3
Meganathan_3 10 years 7 months ago
Implicit in the notion of Green Cities for developing nations is the idea that development and motorization can be decoupled. Sustainable transport options offer an alternative path for Green Cities. A complementary package of public transport, quality footpaths and cycleways, vehicle-restriction measures, clean fuels, safety programs, and high standards can constitute a new paradigm for urban mobility and access.
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Meganathan_3 10 years 7 months ago
Instilling smart growth design principles into city expansion, maintaining public transport, and retaining nonmotorized users through service quality are proactive measures that are perishable in some ways if the opportunity is missed. Since major investments in road-based infrastructure are relatively irreversible over the medium term, decisions made by developing-nation officials today will likely determine the shape and direction of the future urban form.
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Meganathan_3 10 years 7 months ago
Developing-nation cities, though, are in a unique position to shape their form before a culture of motorization becomes fully established. Convincing individuals to leave their cars and motorcycles for alternatives is far more difficult and costly than retaining current users of sustainable transport options through improvements in quality.
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Meganathan_3 10 years 7 months ago
Transport is the only major sector in which base conditions tend to worsen as economic performance increases. As incomes rise, so do levels of car and motorcycle ownership, which leads to heightened levels of congestion and other problems associated with motorization. In the cities of the developing world, increased private motorization tends to decrease exchange and accessibility.
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Meganathan_3
Meganathan_3 10 years 7 months ago
While sanitation, health, education, and employment tend to improve through economic development, transport problems tend to worsen
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Meganathan_3 10 years 7 months ago
Cities are an invention to maximize exchange opportunities and to minimize travel. These exchanges may be exchanges of goods, friendship, knowledge, culture, work, education or emotional and spiritual support. Cities are a deliberate concentration of these exchange opportunities in order to increase both the diversity and accessibility of exchange opportunities. The role of transport is to help maximize exchange.
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Meganathan_3 10 years 7 months ago
Movement enables development. To undertake commercial exchange, access public services, or engage in recreation and entertainment, society relies on the ability to move persons, goods, or information from one location to another. The concepts of exchange and movement can be viewed as core elements in defining a city
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Raji_8
Raji_8 10 years 7 months ago
Flushing toilets with less or no water is one of the concrete challenges which cities are facing today. In poor households, about 50% of water consumption is for toilet flushing. While waterless urinals have already been developed and are being tried out in public buildings, these have yet to be down-marketed to homes. Creative solutions are being awaited.
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