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Overloading,
poor
infrastructure
behind rising
road accidents
in Karnali,
by Bishna
Prasad Neupane
(ae 20/1/2024)
Legal
hurdles keep
Sajha
Yatayat’s
converted
electric bus
off the roads
for eight
months : The
transport
cooperative
converted a
diesel bus to
electric eight
months ago,
but it is
still waiting
for a route
permit (kp
19/11/2024) [The ineffectiveness and irresponsibility of government
and
administration
need no
further
explanation!]
Chhirkane-Deurali
section of
Prithvi
Highway to
close for four
and half hours
daily (kh
18/11/2024)
45%
work completed
on arch-design
bridge over
Madi River in
Tanahun
(kh
16/11/2024)
Darchula
jeep mishap:
Death toll
reaches 8
(kh
15/11/2024)
Petrol
sales drop by
8.25 percent
in Kathmandu
as consumers
shift focus to
EVs (rep
12/11/2024)
Seven
killed in
Kalikot jeep
accident
identified
(kh
10/11/2024) [How can 20 people be transported in a single jeep? This
is highly
criminal. The
state is also
neglecting its
duty of
supervision
and control!]
Weather
delays final
stages of
Gwarko Flyover
construction
(kh
07/11/2024)
Road
accidents
claim 24 lives
in Bagmati
Province
during Dashain
and Tihar
(kh
06/11/2024)
Construction
of Babai river
bridge faces
delays; only
70 percent
work completed
in seven years
: The contract
for the bridge
was signed in
2017, with a
three-year
completion
target, by
Biplab
Maharjan (kp
05/11/2024)
Poor
roads hinder
patients’
access to
health
facility : Two
roads lead to
Madane
Community
Health Centre
in remote
Gulmi village,
but both are
impassable for
vehicles due
to lack of
timely
maintenance,
by Gaganshila
Khadka (kp
31/10/2024)
Narayanghat-Butwal
road project
suppliers
protest
seeking
payment : The
main
contractor,
China State
Construction
Engineering
Corporation,
has not issued
payments since
March, placing
suppliers in
financial
distress,
by Nabin
Poudel (kp
30/10/2024)
Bagmati
Province
reports 60
deaths in road
accidents in
three months
(kh
27/10/2024)
Nagdhunga-Sisnekhola
tunnel nears
completion
with over 80
percent
progress in
four years :
The main
tunnel
breakthrough
was made on
April 15, with
further
construction
underway to
complete the
route (kp
27/10/2024)
Ring
Road expansion
in limbo
despite
agreement with
China (kh
26/10/2024)
Steel
Truss bridge
over Tila
River (kh
26/10/2024)
Korala
road
construction
nears
completion
(ae
24/10/2024)
Flood-destroyed
Khurkot Bailey
bridge
restored,
bringing
relief to
cut-off
communities :
September 28
flooding in
the Sunkoshi
river had
severed the
vital link,
cutting off
Ramechhap,
Dolakha,
Okhaldhunga
and Solukhumbu
districts from
Tarai, by
Raj Kumar
Karki (kp
22/10/2024) [Sometimes miracles do still happen in Nepal!]
Bagmati
Province
introduces
digital
driver’s
licenses via
‘Nagarik App’
(kh
20/10/2024)
Khurkot
bridge
construction
accelerated by
Nepal Army
(kh
19/10/2024)
Travellers
along BP
Highway’s new
track face a
gruelling
journey : The
hastily built
track is
narrow, dusty,
and full of
potholes, and
causes long
traffic jams,
by Jyoti
Shrestha (kp
18/10/2024)
4
killed, 12
injured in
Dadeldhura bus
accident
(kh
16/10/2024), Dadeldhura
bus accident:
Death toll
reaches five,
12 critically
injured
referred to
Dhangadhi
(kh
16/10/2024)
Five
road sections
still blocked,
eight sections
opened for
one-way
traffic
(kh
09/10/2024)
Stalled
flyover
construction
work in Gwarko
is causing
congestion and
frustration :
The project,
which began in
February 2022,
has faced
significant
delays due to
technical
issues and the
monsoon season,
by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp
09/10/2024)
Authorities
crack down on
overloaded
vehicles
(kh
08/10/2024)
Public
transport and
air tickets
scarce for
Dashain
(kh
07/10/2024)
Mustang
and Dolpa
being linked
to road
network
(rep
07/10/2024)
‘Unbearable’:
Travellers
struggle to
negotiate the
Narayanghat-Butwal
road : Ongoing
expansion
works, coupled
with
landslides,
have turned
travel on this
essential
route into a
harrowing
journey,
by Nabin
Pasudel (kp
06/10/2024)
Key
highways still
remain blocked
(kh
04/10/2024)
Tatopani
point
accessible by
ropeway
(rn
04/10/2024)
Track
opened in
Kirnetar to
serve as
alternative to
flood-ravaged
BP Highway :
Traffic was
disrupted in
the road
section after
the Tamakoshi
river swept
away around
400 metres
road near
Khimti
Hydropower
Project on
Saturday,
by Kedar
Shiwakoti (kp
03/10/2024)
Sunkoshi
River erosion
collapses
section of BP
Highway : The
Khurkot-Mulkot
road remains
blocked,
by Raj Kumar
Karki (kp
30/09/2024)
Traffic
resumed along
Nepalthok-Khurkot
road section
(kh
29/09/2024), Kathmandu-Mugling
road reopens
after
landslide
cleanup in
Dhading’s
Jhayple Khola
(kh
29/09/2024)
Floods
and landslides
block these
key roads
(kh
28/09/2024)
NDRRMA
urges
suspension of
night bus
services for
two days due
to risk of
heavy rain
(rep
26/09/2024), Night
bus operation
ban in 56
districts due
to monsoon
warnings
(kh
26/09/2024)
Saptakoshi
bus accident
update: 20
passengers
rescued
(kh
26/09/2024)
Siddhababa
tunnel
achieves key
breakthroughs.
Project
completion
target set for
December : The
1.12 km tunnel
aims to
improve safety
on a hazardous
road linking
several hill
districts to
the Tarai,
by Madhav
Aryal (kp
26/09/2024)
Ghandruk
road reopens
after
two-month
closure
(rep
25/09/2024)
Postal
Highway in
Nawalparasi
West stuck in
delays :
Residents of
several
settlements
have been
enduring dust,
mud and safety
risks as road
upgrade
remains
stalled for
years, by
Nabin Paudel
(kp
20/09/2024)
Baglung
Bus Park opens
23 years after
acquiring land
from locals :
The project
was initiated
after the
residents
donated 17.5
ropani of land
in 2001; the
foundation was
laid in 2018;
and the
construction
was completed
in June 2021,
by Prakash
Baral (kp
17/09/2024)
No
access road
for
Palpa-Syangja
bridge causes
major travel
hassles for
locals and
travellers,
by Madhav
Aryal (kp
16/09/2024)
Bara
bus accident:
One dead, 42
undergoing
treatment
(rep
16/09/2024)
Civil
society
members call
upon prime
minister to
take urgent
steps to
improve road
safety : Urge
for enhanced
legislation,
increased
traffic
personnel, and
advanced
monitoring
systems
(kp
16/09/2024)
Govt
allocates
three billion
for road
repairs before
Dashain
(kh
14/09/2024)
Taxis
block roads in
protest
against
ride-sharing
services
(kh
13/09/2024), The
Taxing Side of
Taxi Drivers’
Protest
(rep
14/09/2024)
Panchthar’s
Chiwabhanjyang-Darimba
road crumbling
due to
contractor’s
neglect : Of
the 114 km of
the Mid-Hill
Highway in
Panchthar
district, 63
km has been
blacktopped,
but 51 km from
Chiwabhanjyang
to Darimba
remains
incomplete
despite
several
deadline
extensions,
by Laxmi
Gauitam (kp
13/09/2024)
15
injured in bus
accident at
Ambukhareni
(rep
11/09/2024)
Govt
to reassess
SC’s 20-meter
riverbank
construction
ban (kh
09/09/2024)
Haphazard
road
construction
causing
environmental
problems,
by Keshar Raj
Chhetri (ae
06/09/2024)
Landslides
obstruct
Mid-hill
Highway in
Baglung
(kh
06/09/2024), Landslides
obstruct roads
at several
places across
Nepal (rep
06/09/2024)
Over
19,000
vehicles
penalized in
Gandaki
Province in
first fiscal
month (kh
05/09/2024)
Kalaiya’s
Sitalpur-Awadhpur
road work
stalled in
crucial
stretch for a
decade : A
three-kilometre
section of the
26-km
Manmat-Matiwarwa
road project,
a key part of
the Postal
Highway,
remains
unfinished,
causing
ongoing dust
and mud
problems for
locals, by
Laxmi Sah (kp
05/09/2024)
Concrete
bridge
dilapidated
for a decade
(rn
02/09/2024)
Landslide
obstructs
Dumre-Besisahar
road (kh
01/09/2024)
Delayed
road
construction
causes
hardships for
local
residents
(kh
31/08/2024)
Ride-hailing
guidelines
uncertain
despite court
order :
Contradiction
between the
two legal
provisions
regarding the
purpose of
transport—private
vehicles for
public use—has
not been
sorted out,
by Krishana
Prasain (kp
30/08/2024)
Upgrade
Highways
Immediately,
by Aditi
Koirala (rn
30/08/2024)
Metropolitan
Ring Road
construction
project
nearing
completion in
Bharatpur
(rn
30/08/2024)
Road
accidents and
fatalities
increasing by
the day,
by Keshar Raj
Chhetri (ae
29/08/2024)
Two
dead, 25
injured in
Bara bus
accident
(kh
29/08/2024)
Good
Governance For
Road Safety,
by Namrata
Sharma (rn
28/08/2024)
13
injured as bus
overturns in
Kapilvastu
(26/08/2024)
We
need a
powerful road
safety council
: Contractors
are powerful
because of
their
connection
with
influential
leaders
including
prime
ministers and
ministers,
interview with
Arjun Jung
Thapa (kp
26/08/2024)
Vehicle
with 10
passengers
falls off a
cliff in
Dhankuta
(rep
25/08/2024)
15
passengers
injured in bus
accident on
Mugling-Narayangadh
road (kh
25/08/2024)
Pilgrims
heading
towards
Kailash
Manasarovar
stranded
(kh
25/08/2024), Road
to lake
Mansarovar and
Mount Kailash
reopened
(kh
25/08/2024)
Dry
landslide
obstructs two
highways
(kh
25/08/2024)
15
passengers
rescued
unconscious
after bus
plunges into
Marsyangdi
river, 11
still missing
(kh
23/08/2024), 14
die as
passenger bus
plunges into
Marsyangdi
River in
Tanahun
(kh
23/08/2024), Tanahu
Bus Accident:
Death toll
rises to 27
(kh
23/08/2024), 27
dead as Indian
tourist bus
plunges into
Marsyangdi :
16 injured—six
in critical
condition—are
undergoing
treatment in
Kathmandu,
by Samjhana
Rasaili and
Hariram Upreti
(kp
24/08/2024)
Floods
displace 800
families in
Kailali as
rains wreak
havoc in
several
districts : A
massive
landslide
blocked
Prithvi
Highway in
Tanahun for 24
hours leaving
hundreds of
passengers
stranded,
by Arjun Shah
and Samjhana
Rasaili (kp
28/08/2024)
Lumbini’s
‘smart refresh
centres’ fall
in limbo due
to budget woes
: Four years
ago, the
provincial
government
announced a
plan to
construct five
stopover
centres along
the East-West
Highway to
reduce road
accidents
caused by
driver fatigue
and offer
amenities for
both drivers
and passengers,
by Ghanashyam
Gautam (kp
22/08/2024), For
a refreshing
ride : We must
set up
infrastructures
and amenities
to take care
of drivers’
wellbeing to
ensure road
safety (kp
23/08/2024)
Potholes
Of Perils,
by Pallav
Bhusal (rn
20/08/2024)
Remodel
Public
Transport
System, by
Ballav Dahal
(rn
19/08/2024)
Penalty-focused
traffic
policing must
stop (rep
18/08/2024)
Four
major roads
blocked for
over two
months in
Baglung : The
farmers are
hardest hit as
they are
unable to
transport
seasonal
vegetables,
milk and other
products to
the market,
by Prakash
Baral (kp
18/08/2024)
Landslides
block
Tamghas-Ridi-Wamitaksar
road, disrupt
traffic
(kh
18/08/2024)
Mid-hill
highway
obstructed due
to landslides
(kh
18/08/2024)
Multiple
landslides
along Karnali
Highway turn
short trips
into gruelling
journeys :
According to
the district
traffic police
offices in
Kalikot, Jumla
and Dailekh,
landslides
have occurred
in 133 places
along the
highway since
June 9,
by Tularam
Pandey and
Tripti Shahi
(kp
16/08/2024)
17
injured in
Doti bus
accident
(kh
16/08/2024)
Role
of traffic
police under
scrutiny as
tragic
accident in
Bhaktapur
claims a life
(rep
16/08/2024)
Road
collapses at
Daunne,
causing
hours-long
traffic : This
has caused a
traffic
bottleneck on
one of the
busiest
stretches of
the East-West
Highway.
Kalikot-Jumla
road blockage
cleared by
blasting
rocks, by
Nabin Paudel
(kp
14/08/2024)
EV
Sector:
Growth,
Challenges,
and Future
Prospects,
by Srija
Khanal (kh
13/08/2024)
10
injured in
bus-truck
collision in
Chitwan
(rep
12/08/2024)
Kathmandu-Terai-Madhesh
Expressway:
Making
Progress. If
the government
and political
parties
facilitate
land
acquisition
and allocate
sufficient
budget, the
Kathmandu-Terai,
Madhesh
Expressway
will be
completed by
2083 (sp
09/08/2024)
172
fatalities in
Sudurpaschim
Province road
accidents last
year (kh
31/07/2024)
School
bus with 24
students
overturns in
Pokhara
(kh
29/07/2024), School
bus accident
in Pokhara
claims one
life (kh
29/07/2024), Update:
Mother, son
die in Pokhara
school bus
accident
(kh
29/07/2024)
Nepal
Police conduct
check at 600
locations
daily, vehicle
patrols
conducted 426
times a day
(rep
29/07/2024)
Navigating
Kathmandu with
disability is
a challenge :
Even the new
pavements
built in the
metropolis do
not meet the
standard
measurements
for wheelchair
use, say users,
by Aarati Ray
(kp
28/07/2024)
51
people die in
road accidents
in Parsa in
one year
(kh
28/07/2024)
Kathmandu
Valley sees
decline in
accidents and
human
casualties in
the past three
years (rep
27/07/2024), Road
accidents in
Kathmandu
Valley
decrease by
16% (kh
27/07/2024)
Susta
residents
relieved with
the opening of
a footbridge
over Narayani
River : People
of the
isolated
settlement
previously
relied on
Indian
territory for
access to
mainland Nepal,
by Nabin
Paudel (kp
26/07/2024)
Karnali Province
records 112
road accident
fatalities in
a year (kh
25/07/2024)
Chinese
aid delays
lead Nepal to
self-fund
Araniko
Highway
upgrade :
Maoist
lawmaker says
the government
has allocated
Rs3.6 billion
to upgrade a
26-km section
of the highway
(kh
24/07/2024) [This is not honest of China, but Nepal should not focus
on foreign aid
for
everything!]
Nine
road-sections
disrupted,
one-way
traffic
continues on
159 roads
(rep
23/07/2024)
Why
did Mayor
Balen step
back in the
New Road
footpath
expansion
‘battle’?,
by Safalta
Bhandari (rep
23/07/2024)
Road
accidents: 97
accidents
daily, 7 lives
lost on
average
(kh
22/07/2024)
Over
to Balen’s
court : He
would do well
to devise a
well-thought-out
plan that will
benefit the
city and its
peripheral
citizens
(kp
19/07/2024)
Landslides
block
Sanfe-Martadi
road (kh
19/07/2024)
Road
accidents
claim 115
lives in
Chitwan over
past year (kh
17/07/2024)
New
Road: Pavement
expansion
begins (In
pics) (kh
17/07/2024), KMC
and locals
clash over
footpath
expansion in
New Road
(Photos) (kh
19/07/2024),
(With Photos)
(rep
21/07/2024)
30
injured, five
seriously, in
police vehicle
mishap (kh
17/07/2024)
Killer
monsoon roads
: Government
must heed the
experts,
engineers and
geologists
when
constructing
or widening
roads (kp
16/07/2024)
Second
deadline nears
for
Butwal-Narayanghat
road widening,
but progress at
just 52 percent
: Contractor
claims tree
clearance
permission and
Covid pandemic
caused delays,
by Nabin Paudel
(kp 15/07/2024)
Embrace
EVs, Cut On
Fossil Fuels,
by Ratan Bhandari
(rn 15/07/2024)
Traffic
halted on
Chitlang-Chandragiri
road section
till August 4 (rep
14/07/2024)
150,000
smart licenses
distributed in
two months,
clearing backlog
of 1.7 million
applicants to
take another two
years (rep
14/07/2024)
Kaligandaki
Corridor remains
blocked for
three days
(kh 13/07/2024)
Vehicular
movement along
Baglung section
of Mid-Hill
Highway comes to
a complete halt
(rep 13/07/2024)
Karnali
Corridor blocked
by landslide
(rep 13/07/2024)
Landslides
block Prithvi
Highway (kh
12/07/2024), Traffic on Prithvi
Highway resumes
after seven
hours (kh
12/07/2024)
Naubise-Malekhu
road section to
remain closed at
night from 10 pm
to 3 am (kh
12/07/2024)
Mid-Hill
highway
obstructed
(kh 11/07/2024)
14
injured in Bara
bus accident
(rep 11/07/2024)
Bridge
construction in
limbo for 7
years, by
Liladhar Oli (rn
10/07/2024)
Narayangadh-Butwal
road expansion
stalls amid
heavy rain
(kh 08/07/2024)
Karnali
highway blocked
due to
landslides
(rn 07/07/2024), Landslides
and floods
disrupt 25
highways; 98
roads being
operated one-way
(kh 07/07/2024)
Landslide
obstructs BP
Highway (kh
06/07/2024), Flood sweeps away
culvert, halting
transport along
Prithvi Highway
(kh
06/07/2024)
Kathmandu-Tarai
expressway
achieves another
tunnel
breakthrough : A
1,612-metre
tunnel in
Bakaiya and
Gadhi rural
municipalities
of Makawanpur
achieved
breakthrough on
Thursday (kp
05/07/2024)
Naubise-Nagdhunga
road section to
remain closed
tonight (kh
04/07/2024)
Beni-Jomsom
road obstructed
due to landslide
(kh 04/07/2024)
Only
52 percent of
work completed
on
Narayangadh-Butwal
Road Widening
Project (kh
03/07/2024)
Seven
dead in Rolpa
jeep crash : The
injured are
being treated at
Rolpa District
Hospital, by
Kashiram Dangi (kp
02/07/2024)
Budgets
allocated for 14
road tunnel
projects (ae
02/07/2024)
People
in northwestern
edge of Nepal
wait for vital
bridge : Though
a road track
links Simkot,
the district
headquarters of
Humla, no bridge
over the Karnali
river means
continued
hardship for
hundreds of
people, by
Krishna Gautam (kp
30/06/2024)
Landslides
obstruct Karnali
corridor (kh
28/06/2024)
Section
of Prithvi
Highway washed
away by heavy
rainfall in
Pokhara-14
(rep 26/06/2024)
Blacktopping
being done
Birtamod-Sanishchare
road section
(kh 24/06/2024)
3,000
units of EVs
arrived in Nepal
in the second
last month of
the current FY
(rep 22/06/2024)
Maldhunga-Beni
road to close
for 13 days
(kh 21/06/2024)
Landslide
blocks
Beshisahar-Chame
roadway (kh
20/06/2024)
Three
die as passenger
bus collides
with Indian
cargo truck in
Sarlahi, seven
injured
critically
(rep 20/06/2024)
Cantilever
bridge into
operation after
repair, by
Gun Bahadur Roka
(rn 20/06/2024)
Work
begins to
upgrade three
road sections in
Baglung : Local
farmers hope it
will be easier
to export their
produce to
nearby markets
once the project
is completed,
by Prakash Baral
(kp 19/06/2024)
Landslides
block mid-hill
highway (rep
19/06/2024)
Mixed
signals : Lack
of a clear
policy on
electric
vehicles will
do great harm
to Nepal’s
economy and
environment
(kp
19/06/2024)
21
injured, three
critically, in
bus-truck
collision in
Jhapa (rep
18/06/2024)
Siddhababa
tunnel project
achieves 13%
physical
progress
(rep 18/06/2024)
Motorable
bridges along
Diktel-Chakhewa
Bhanjyang road
section
constructed
before deadline
(rep 18/06/2024)
Kaligandaki
corridor blocked
due to landslide
(rn 18/06/2024)
Landslide
obstructs
Muglin-Malekhu
road section
(kh 17/06/2024)
Tiplyang
section of
Beni-Jomsom-Korala
Road being
upgraded
(rep 16/06/2024)
Closed
driving license
trial centers to
reopen from
today, by
Bhuwan Sharma (rep
14/06/2024)
KMC
announces 'No
Vehicle Zone'
for ancient
areas
including New
Road and
Handigaon
(rep
14/06/2024)
Narayanghat-Mugling
road: Landslide
risks identified
in 25 areas
(rep 13/06/2024)
14
mules stuck on
bridge after
iron rod breaks
(rep 09/06/2024),
11 out of 13 mules
stuck in
suspension
bridge rescued
(kh 09/06/2024), 12
of 14 mules
stuck on
footbridge after
cable snap
rescued alive :
Army, police,
locals had cut
wires and
dropped the
mules into the
river to rescue
them, by
Jyoti Katuwal (kp
10/06/2024), Local
authorities halt movement on Karnali
suspension bridge where 14 mules were
stuck (rep 12/06/2024)
One
dead, eight injured in bus-pickup truck
collision in Kapilvastu (rep
11/06/2024)
Sajha
Yatayat to operate electric microbuses,
invites tender for 25 microbuses
(rep 10/06/2024)
Ambukhaireni-Muglin
road to be closed for four hours today
(kh 09/06/2024)
Congress
backs Kathmandu mayor’s New Road
sidewalk expansion bid : Road office,
under the ministry led by UML, foiled
Balendra Shah’s plan to widen footpaths
in the business district (kp
07/06/2024) [It is
an essential part of modern urban
planning worldwide to reduce traffic
areas for cars in favour of pedestrians!]
Kanti
Highway comes into full operation from today
(kh 03/06/2024)
Army
illegally employed tourists for Fast Track
project : The Army employed South Koreans,
including senior geologists and slope
stabilization specialists, who received monthly
wages while on tourist visas. The report
detailed payments of $29,663, $23,615, and
$22,836 in different phases, by Pratik
Ghimire (ae 03/06/2024)
One
killed, seven injured in jeep accident in Gulmi
(rep 03/06/2024)
DoR
blacktops street amid tussle with Kathmandu
Metropolitan City, by Chirayu Shakya (kh
03/06/2024), Kathmandu
Road Division Office starts blacktopping road
demolished by KMC in New Road (With Photos)
(rep 03/06/2024), Tension
erupts as KMC police confront road department
workers in New Road area (rep 03/06/2024), How
the hostility between Road Division and KMC came
to a head in New Road : Metropolis officials
said that they are determined to expand the
sidewalks in New Road areas (kp 04/06/2024)
When
will the closed trial centers reopen? Technical
team formed by Transport Ministry to inspect
trial centers submits report, by Bhuwan
Sharma (rep 03/06/2024)
Landslide
obstructs Damauli-Dumre road section (kh
02/06/2024)
Rs.
1.5 billion budget allocated for
Mirchaiya-Katari-Ghurmi road, by Bhakti
Bilas Pokharel (rn 02/06/2024)
Outer
Ring Road Project in Kathmandu receives zero
budget allocation (kh 01/06/2024)
‘Irrational’:
Experts decry decision to deploy traffic rule
violators as rule keepers : Over 1,300 rule
violators are deployed for traffic management on
Wednesday (kp 31/05/2024)
Road
Division directs KMC to reconstruct demolished
roads at New Road within two days (kh
30/05/2024), Kathmandu
Road Division Office summons KMC mayor Balen to
appear within three days, by Bhuwan Sharma
(rep 02/06/2024)
Highway
subsidence obstructs two-way traffic in
East-West Highway (kh 28/05/2024)
Chinese
side to blame for delay in Kalanki-Bashundhara
road expansion: Department of Roads (rep
27/05/2024)
Road
construction slows: 28 km new roads constructed
in FY 2080/81 (kh 26/05/2024)
Landslide
in Narayanghat-Mugling road section kills one
(kh 26/05/2024)
12
injured in road accident in Mugu ( rep
23/05/2024)
Nepalgunj-Gulariya
road section: 65 percent of work completed
(rep 23/05/2024)
Jomsom-Kagbeni
road being blacktopped (kh 22/05/2024)
Dhulikel-Kawa
road under Araniko Highway remains closed for
four hours today and tomorrow for expansion
(rep 21/05/2024)
Surkhet
minibus accident: Two killed, 19 injured
(rep 20/05/2024)
Ghumti-Ranitari
road closed for 16 days for upgrades (kh
19/05/2024)
Prithvi
Highway Expansion: Deadline extended by five
months on eastern section from Jamun to
Ambukhaireni (rep 18/05/2024)
Kathmandu-Tarai-Madhesh
achieved tunnel breakthrough (nlt
17/05/2024)
10
passengers injured in Dang bus mishap (kh
17/05/2024)
Two
dead, 13 injured in Palpa jeep accident (rep
16/05/2024)
Nepal’s
road safety measures in focus, by Pralhad
Gairapipli (ae 15/05/2024)
14
injured in vehicle accident at Dolakha, nine in
critical condition (kh 15/05/2024)
Manage
Driving Licence System Well, by Uttam
Maharjan (rn 14/05/2024)
Govt
spends Rs 500 million before the commencement of
outer ring road project, by Hari Prasad
Sharma (rep 12/05/2024)
2.2
km road waiting blacktopping for over 22 months
in Kaski (rep 11/05/2024)
Baglung-Beni
road section closed for road widening works
(kh 10/05/2024)
Bridge
construction along Narayangadh-Muglin road
section in full swing (kh 09/05/2024)
Kathmandu-Tarai
Expressway 33.20 percent completed (nlt
07/05/2024)
18
injured in bus accident in Morang (rep
07/05/2024)
Landslide
obstructs Kanti Highway (kh 03/05/2024)
Narayangadh-Butwal
road sees sluggish progress (kh 01/05/2024)
Attend
To Road Accident Victims, by Uttam Maharjan
(rn 30/04/2024)
21
people injured in Kagbeni bus accident (rn
30/04/2024)
14
injured in Panchthar jeep accident (rep
21/04/2024)
Construction
of bailey bridge along Bheri corridor in final
stage (kh 19/04/2024)
Bus
accident claims three lives in Sindhupalchok
(kh 19/04/2024)
Satdobato-Balkumari
road section to be closed at night for several
days (rep 18/04/2024)
Nagdhunga-Naubise
Tunnel route ready for breakthrough (kh
15/04/2024), Nagdhunga-Sisne
Khola main tunnel achieves breakthrough (rep
15/04/2024), Nagdhunga-Sisnekhola
tunnel road makes final breakthrough : Prime
Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal says the tunnel is
an important infrastructural achievement for
Nepal (kp 16/04/2024)
Traffic
Awareness Special Campaign launched (rep
14/04/2024)
48
km of Beni-Jomsom-Korala road section
black-topped (kh 13/04/2024)
11
bridges along Narayanghat-Mugling road come into
operation, four bridges under construction
(rep 12/04/2024)
Govt
to install modern traffic lights in all major
cities across country (rep 11/04/2024)
athmandu’s
public transport remains an ordeal for many :
Women and elderly complain of mistreatment and
harassment. But justice and accountability
remain elusive, by Abhinav Kumal (kp
07/04/2024)
Construction
of major road projects undertaken by Chinese
companies faces inordinate delays, by Hari
Prasad Sharma (rep 06/04/2024)
Trishuli
bridge closed following cable snapping (kh
06/04/2024)
Delay
in upgrading highway irks locals in Madhes
(rn 06/04/2024)
Connecting
People With Road Networks, by Uttam Maharjan
(rn 02/04/2024)
Paved
trekking route constructed in Myagdi (kh
01/04/2024)
Kaligandaki
Corridor: Tiplang-Pokhrebagar section being
blacktopped (kh 31/03/2024)
Landslide
blocks Besisahar-Chame road (kh 31/03/2024)
Five
family members die, another missing in Trishuli
taxi crash : The dead bodies are taken to Gorkha
Hospital for postmortem. Search for the missing
will continue on Sunday, police said, by
Hariram Upreti (kp 31/03/2024)
Hilsa-Simkot
road section blocked by snow for months (rn
30/03/2024)
Alarming
road accident statistics in Nepal: Seven
fatalities and 83 injuries daily (kh
28/03/2024)
Nagdhunga
tunnel construction faces another year of delay,
by Hari Prasad Sharma (rep 28/03/2024)
40
MW hydropower project proposed for construction
in Sindhupalchowk’s Jugal (rep 28/03/2024)
Bareng-Shantipur
road awaits up-gradation (rn 27/03/2024)
Concrete
bridge constructed at Thimura (kh
27/03/2024)
First-phase
construction of Asian Highway begins (rep
25/03/2024)
12
passengers injured in Banepa bus accident
(kh 25/03/2024)
Budget
shortage impacts landslide control efforts on
Beni-Jomsom-Korala road (kh 23/03/2024)
Slow
progress on Nepalgunj-Gularia road as
construction inches forward (kh 20/03/2024)
Ridi-Tamghas
route to remain closed for three weeks (kh
20/03/2024)
Lawmakers
suggest declaring ‘special situation’ and
gearing up efforts to reduce road accidents
(kh 20/03/2024)
Nepal
witnesses decline in import of EVs: Only 276
units imported in Falgun compared to 1100 units
in Magh (rep 19/03/2024)
Seven
dead, 20 injured in Nisikhola bus accident
(kh 18/03/2024), Nisikhola
bus accident claims nine lives, all deceased
identified (kh 19/03/2024)
Prevent
Rising Road Mishaps, by Lok Deep Thapa (rn
15/03/2024)
Six
die in Udaypur jeep accident (kh
14/03/2024), Jeep
Accident Update: Death toll reaches eight,
victims identified (kh 14/03/2024)
Kanti
Highway section closed for maintenance,
alternative route advised (kh 14/03/2024)
Transportation
disrupted on Karnali Bridge as fire damages 14
support wires (kh 12/03/2024), Karnali
Bridge opens for traffic (kh 18/03/2024)
Kanti
Highway to remain closed for 45 days from March
14 (kh 11/03/2024)
Disabled-friendly
overhead bridge to be built at Kusunti (rep
11/03/2024)
Fire
breaks 0ut on truck on Karnali bridge, bridge
also damage (kh 11/03/2024)
117
km of blacktopped roads added in six months of
current FY (rep 08/03/2024)
On
the wrong track : Little is being done to stop
the vicious cycle of deaths and injuries on our
roads (kp 07/03/2024)
4
die as bus plunges into Trishuli river (kh
06/03/2024), Dhading
accident update: Death toll reaches 6, driver
arrested (kh 06/03/2024), Dhading
accident update: Death toll reaches 7 (kh
06/03/2024), 7
killed, 39 injured as bus plunges into Trishuli
River : Police suspect three more may be missing
in the river, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
07/03/2024)
Beni-Jomsom-Korala
road project: Demolition of houses in Tiplyang
begins (kh 06/03/2024)
East-West
Highway closure strands passengers for 12 hours
(rep 04/03/2024)
Cracks
surface on Chinese-constructed black-topped road
within a mere two weeks (kh 03/03/2024)
Snow
obstructs Nagma-Gamgadhi road (kh
03/03/2024)
Beni-Maldhunga
road to be closed four hours daily till March 7
(rep 03/03/2024)
Locals
obstruct Nagdhunga tunnel construction, by
Bishnu Pandey (rn 01/03/2024)
Solar
street lights being replaced with traditional
ones : Over 1000 solar lights installed in the
Kathmandu Metropolitan City have been already
replaced; the rest will be replaced within two
months (kp 27/02/2024)
Bagmati
govt prepares charging station procedures;
construction to take place in collaboration with
private sector (rep 27/02/2024)
Nepal
imports EVs worth Rs 15 billion in 7 months of
current FY (rep 26/02/2024)
Indecision
by authorities over felling roadside trees
delays four-lane road in Marchawar area :
Contractor says confusion between forest and
irrigation offices has hindered decision and
they are awaiting federal intervention in the
matter, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp 26/02/2024)
With
no approach road, people use bamboo ladders to
access bridge : Local unit and consumers’
committee trade blames over delay in approach
road construction, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp
25/02/2024)
Kaligandaki
corridor blocked by dry landslides (rep
24/02/2024)
Narayangadh-Muglin
Road to fully reopen from Sunday (kh
24/02/2024)
Lorry
Truck accident claims lives of three children in
Morang (kh 23/02/2024)
Bicycle
track construction around Rara Lake moving at a
snail’s pace : The project completion deadline
is July 2026, and only 30 percent work has been
completed so far, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
22/02/2024)
Seven
killed, 12 injured in road accidents : The
accidents occurred in Sindhupalchok, Bara, Dang
and Salyan districts, by Anish Tiwari and
Laxmi Sah (kp 22/02/2024)
Koshi
Province now has a road link to China, with
Taplejung track cut open : With ‘breakthrough’
in the Phungling-Gola-Tiptala section, the east
is connected to both India and China by road,
by Ananda Gautam (kp 21/02/2024)
Tragic
collision claims two lives, leaves three injured
in Bara (kh 21/02/2024)
Five
killed, several injured in separate road
accidents : Poor road conditions, ill-maintained
vehicles and reckless driving are the major
causes of such accidents, say experts (kp
20/02/2024)
Fatal
Jeep accident leaves one dead and seven injured
in Tanahu (kh 18/02/2024)
20
injured in bus and truck collision near Malekhu,
three in critical condition (kh 17/02/2024)
Road
Safety Vital For Healthier Society, by
Pushpa Raj Joshi (rn 16/02/2024)
Delay
in consultant selection hampers
Laukahi-Kakarvitta road project progress
(rep 16/02/2024)
10
killed in road crash amid delayed rescue : As
many as 32 people lost their lives in three
major road accidents in Lumbini Province over
the past 34 days, by Manoj Paudel (kp
16/02/2024)
10
die in Kapilvastu bus accident (nlt
15/02/2024), Ten
dead, 30 injured in Kapilvastu bus accident :
The bus heading to Kathmandu from Mahendranagar
veered off the road and fell some 200 metres
down at around 1am causing casualties, police
say, by Manoj Paudel (kp 15/02/2024)
Plight
of drivers: Inadequate facilities leave drivers
frustrated, by Sita Neupane (kh 13/02/2024)
Eight
die in jeep mishap in Palpa (kh 13/02/2024),
Palpa
Jeep Accident: Death toll rises as victims
identified (kh 14/02/2024), Ten
dead, 17 injured in Palpa jeep accident : The
13-seater vehicle was carrying people beyond
capacity, by Madhav Aryal (kp 14/02/2024)
Navigating
urban hustle: A pictorial journey through
Kathmandu’s public transport realities (kh
10/02/2024)
Chinese
contractor company of Narayangadh-Butwal road
section fails to meet deadline yet again; seeks
another extension (kh 08/02/2024)
The
electric future : There is a need for more
clarity on policy and intent on switching to
electric vehicles (kp 07/02/2024)
Narayangadh-Butwal
road section sees only 46 percent progress in 5
years (nlt 07/02/2024)
After
seven years of operation, Nepal aims to legalise
ride-sharing services : The Bagmati province has
finalised the draft of the Ride-Sharing
Guidelines (kp 06/02/2024), Ride-sharing
service gets legal status in Nepal : Government
amends Industrial Enterprises Act to include
ride-sharing as a service-oriented industry
(kp 07/02/2024)
KMC
installs fire extinguisher in underground
parking space in Dharahara (rep 06/02/2024)
Gandaki
province govt decides to ban 25-year-old private
vehicles (rep 04/02/2024)
Kathekhola
residents struggle with dust and inconvenience
from unfinished road for 26 years : Two
contractor companies failed to complete the work
despite multiple term extensions. Officials say
they are working to hire new contractors, by
Prakash Baral (kp 29/01/2024)
Four
Nepalis lost lives in Sonipat road mishap, one
more in critical condition (kh 28/01/2024)
Different
road sections along Rapti highway being upgraded
(kh 27/01/2024)
KMC
introduces free parking facility near Dharahara
starting Sunday (kh 27/01/2024)
Roadkill
: Nepalis are not dying on the country’s
highways, they are being killed, by Sonia
Awale (nt 26/01/2024)
Muglin-Pokhara
Road Expansion: Blacktopping commences in west
section (kh 26/01/2024)
88
die in road accidents in Kathmandu Valley in six
months (kh 25/01/2024)
Smart
mobility for Hetauda: A path to sustainable
development, by Prasannata Lamichhane (ae
25/01/2024)
CPN-UML
recommends changing the alignment of Mid-Hill
Highway : The opposition party presents a
memorandum to the prime minister suggesting ways
to develop the country’s hills and stop
outmigration. UML undertook a 'Sankalpa Yatra'
from the country's west to east from November 30
to December 1 (kp 24/01/2024)
KMC
bans parking in New Road area starting today
(kh 23/01/2024), New
Road businesses stage shutdown over KMC’s
on-road parking ban (kh 23/01/2024), Protests
emerge in response to New Road parking ban in
Kathmandu (kh 24/01/2024), KMC
preparing to declare New Road area ‘'No Vehicle
Zone' (rep 25/01/2024)
Challenges
in embossed number plate project: Only 78,000
plates installed in eight years (kh
23/01/2024)
Dirt
track opening work completed in Kanchanpur
section of Mahakali Corridor : The corridor road
aims to connect settlements along the Mahakali
river from Kanchanpur to Darchula districts,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 22/01/2024)
Excavation
of Siddhababa tunnel commences after 22 months
of signing contract, by Himal Lamsal (rep
20/01/2024)
19.5
km stretch of Muglin-Pokhara road blacktopped
(rep 20/01/2024), House
demolition begins in Damauli for Mugling-Pokhara
road expansion (rep 21/01/2024)
Bus
accident in Darchula leaves 16 injured, two in
critical condition (kh 19/01/2024)
Chinese
contractor dilly-dallying Kanchanpur-Kamala road
upgradation work, by Himal Lamsal (rep
18/01/2024)
Korala-Triveni
road construction: Dedhgaun-Jhyalbas road
section expected to be completed by mid-November
(rep 17/01/2024)
Three
bridges come into operation along
Narayangadh-Muglin road section (kh
16/01/2024)
Nepal’s
unsafe roads : A death here or there seldom gets
the public attention or that of the authorities
(kp 16/01/2024)
Death
toll in Dang bus accident rises to 12 (kh
13/01/2024), 19
killed in three major road accidents within 24
hours : Experts say poor roads, unfit vehicles
and reckless driving are major causes of crashes
(kp 14/01/2024)
People
navigate perilous routes after contractor leaves
road work incomplete : For the past two years, a
construction company has stalled work on a
highly anticipated road project connecting Rukum
West and Rukum East, by Mahesh KC (kp
13/01/2024)
Valley
Traffic Police takes to advanced technology to
monitor traffic (kh 12/01/2024)
Focus
on road safety : Nepal’s inability to fund road
safety research hinders innovative solutions to
control accidental deaths, by Bhagabati
Sedain and Pushpa Raj Pant (kp 11/01/2024)
600,000
driving license cards to arrive from Germany
today (rep 11/01/2024), Nepal
receives 600,000 smart license cards (kh
19/01/2024)
Two
killed, 10 injured in Tanahu jeep mishap (kh
10/01/2024)
Narayanghat-Mugling
road to be closed in the afternoon for three
more weeks (rep 10/01/2024)
Bardaghat
road expected to ease congestion on Daunne
section of East-West highway : The 14-km road
will provide people in rural areas of
Nawalparasi West better access to markets to
sell their produce, by Nabin Paudel (kp
09/01/2024)
Service-seekers
face inconvenience due to delay in repairing EV
charging station (rep 08/01/2024)
Breach
of lane rule nullifies Naya Baneshwor’s upgraded
intersection, by Nayak Paudel (rn
07/01/2024)
Bagmati
CM seeks public support to widen Hetauda roads
(kh 06/01/2024) [This is
the antithesis of urban planning in western
industrialised nations!]
Longest
suspension bridge near complete, by Vijay
Kumar Sah (rn 06/01/2024)
10,000
bridges : Nepal’s foot bridges have evolved from
being essential for connectivity to also
becoming tourist attractions (nt 05/01/2024)
Bhimphedi-Kulekhani-Dakshinkali
closed for upgrading work (kh 05/01/2024)
32
injured as bus Traveling from Birgunj to Pokhara
plunges into river (kh 04/01/2024)
Gasoline
stations receiving new operating license must
have charging units to recharge EVs (rep
04/01/2024)
Mahakali
corridor: 241-km-long track opened so far in 15
years (kh 03/01/2024)
Kulekhani-Pharping
road to remain closed for two months (kh
01/01/2024)
Alarming
average of 25 daily two-wheeler accidents rocks
Kathmandu Valley (kh 29/12/2023)
Army’s
misadventures on fast track : The Nepal Army
must arrest the eroding public confidence
resulting from delays in the Kathmandu-Tarai
Expressway, by Bishal Thapa (kp 29/12/2023)
PPMO
blacklists construction companies on Mid-hill
Highway for irregularities (kh 28/12/2023)
Mahakali
bridge construction stalled due to lack of funds
: If completed the motorable bridge can
transform Dodhara Chandani, which is linked to
an Indian border town by a suspension bridge,
into a major border hub, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 27/12/2023)
Bring
them in line : Offline ride-sharing poses great
risk to passenger safety and gives the vital
business a bad rap (kp 27/12/2023)
Narayangarh-Butwal
road section: 18-km blacktopped in eastern
section (kh 27/12/2023)
The
many roadblocks to timely completion of
expressway : Nepali politicians entrusted Nepal
Army with the construction to avoid delays and
controversy. Their trust has been belied, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 24/12/2023), Snail’s
pace on expressway : While it should stop taking
big infra projects, the army must first complete
work on the expressway to Tarai (kp
25/12/2023), Intensify
Fast Track Construction, by Ballav Dahal (rn
25/12/2023)
3,675
four-wheeled EVs imported in the first five
months of current FY 2023/24 (rep
24/12/2023)
Printing
of license comes to a grinding halt for 6 months
in Nepal, leaving 1.4 million drivers in limbo,
by Bhuwan Sharma (rep 23/12/2023), Swift
license service for Nepali nationals heading
abroad : Transport Department claims to provide
the license within three days (kh
27/12/2023) [??]
Locals
dismayed as tourist road construction project
fails to even open track despite deadline expiry
(rep 23/12/2023)
Project
launched to construct, upgrade Beni- Dhorpatan
road section (rep 23/12/2023)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road section to close for four hours (kh
23/12/2023)
Army
says expressway to Tarai won’t be over in next 3
years under current laws : Chief of Army Staff
Prabhu Ram Sharma shrugs off blame, says the
defence force did not ask for the project. The
government and politicians ‘gave us the task’,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 21/12/2023), Army
messes up Fast Track project : Sharma placed
blame on the government and lawmakers for the
national pride project’s delay, emphasizing the
necessity of updating the existing laws to clear
the hurdles blocking the project’s progress,
by Pratik Ghimire (ae 21/12/2023), Editorial:
A bitter lesson for the Army : The army should
not have accepted the government’s offer to
implement the project because constructing an
expressway is beyond its technical capacity
(ae 22/12/2023)
Maintenance
of East-West Highway in Kanchanpur begins
(kh 21/12/2023)
Tragic
bus-truck collision in Bara claims three lives,
leaves 27 injured (kh 20/12/2023)
Locals
in difficulty as Phalgunanda Road remains in
limbo for three decades (kh 19/12/2023)
Tamor
Bridge construction still in limbo after 12
years (kh 18/12/2023)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road to be closed for four hours daily (nlt
17/12/2023)
Bus
accident in Tanahun leaves 18 injured (kh
17/12/2023)
Nine
kilometers blacktopped in Muglin-Pokhara road
expansion’s eastern section (kh 08/12/2023)
Bahrakilo-Barpak
road upgrade work in limbo for years : The
contractors have already received multiple
deadline extensions and are seeking further
extensions (kp 07/12/2023)
Workers
of Chainpur-Taklakot road project deprived of
wages : They say they have not been paid their
daily wages for more than five years, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 04/12/2023)
16
motorable bridges constructed from Beni to
Mustang under road improvement project (rep
03/12/2023)
EV
infrastructure and state policy: Cart before the
horse : There is finally some preparation to
select consultants to chalk up a master plan for
public charging stations, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 03/12/2023)
Two
b)ridges on Narayanghat–Mugling road section
brought into service (rep 30/11/2023)
Bus
accident in Tanahu leaves 36 injured (kh
29/11/2023), Tanahu
accident update: Two die while undergoing
treatment (kh 29/11/2023)
Construction
companies 'influencing' senior govt officials to
snatch contract of Rs 25 billion in
Kathmandu-Terai fast track project, by Dilip
Paudel (rep 29/11/2023)
14
bridges constructed along Jhapa-Sunsari section
of Madan Bhandari Highway (rn 28/11/2023)
‘Pelican
Crossing’ traffic lights come into operation at
Babarmahal (rep 27/11/2023)
Beni-Galeshwar
section blacktopped (kh 26/11/2023)
EV
sales continue to soar despite the overall
market slowdown : Nepal imported 2,787 units of
battery-powered cars in the first four months of
the current fiscal year, up by 174 percent,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 26/11/2023)
Bridge
collapse halts traffic movement in Baitadi
(kh 25/11/2023)
Delay
in construction of Narayanghat-Butwal road: ADB
warns termination of contract if 50 percent
progress is not achieved by December 2023
(rep 24/11/2023)
Cost
of Nagdhunga-Naubise tunnel road projected to
increase to Rs 17 billion (rep
22/11/2023)
One
killed, 17 injured in Kailali mini-truck
accident (kh 212/11/2023)
Jeep
mishap kills two and leaves several injured in
Rukum West (kh 20/11/2023), Five
die, over 50 injured in separate road accidents
in Rukum West, Illam (rep 20/11/2023)
Agro
tourism road linking three local level units
blacktopped (kh 20/11/2023)
22
passengers injured in Rukum West accident
(kh 20/11/2023)
Upgrading
of Pokharebagar-Chitre road nears completion
(rep 16/11/2023)
Road
widening work along Muglin-Malekhu section of
Prithvi Highway moving at snail’s pace : Only
six percent of the road project has been
completed in the one year since it began. Around
8,000 vehicles ply the road daily, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (kp 12/11/2023)
Fast
Track achieves 27.19% physical progress (rn
11/11/2023) [That's not
very fast, is it?]
Express
bus service stalled, DoR preparing to spend
additional Rs 2 million to make it effective,
by Bhuwan Sharma (rep 08/11/2023)
Negligence
of contractors blamed for tardy upgrading works
on Postal Highway (rep 03/11/2023)
Valley
traffic police intensify checking; over 1,500
faced action in last 24 hours (rep
31/10/2023), Over
12,700 drivers in Kathmandu Valley face action
in a week (kh 02/11/2023)
Construction
of second-longest suspension bridge in final
stages (rep 30/10/2023)
16
killed in road mishaps during Dashain in Koshi
(rep 29/10/2023)
At
least 25 injured in bus accident in Kaski
(rep 29/10/2023)
17
injured in Dhading road accident : Police took
control of bus driver and car driver along with
all three vehicles (kp 26/10/2023)
Mounting
delays in driver's license printing pose
frustration for applicants (rep 24/10/2023)
13
Indian pilgrims injured in Tata sumo accident in
Makwanpur (rep 24/10/2023)
13
injured in separate accidents in Palpa
(kp 23/10/2023)
These
three road sections in Kathmandu are one-way
from today (rep 18/10/2023)
Construction
company’s negligence in repair leaves Sidhartha
Highway worse off : Company head concedes the
negligence and vows to redo the repair work,
by Madhav Aryal (kp 16/10/2023)
Construction
of Nagdhunga-Naubise tunnel resumes after a
temporary halt (rep 15/10/2023)
A
Parsa suspension bridge work remains stalled
three years on. Locals bear the brunt : Local
consumer committee, the contractor, and rural
municipality, blame each other for the delay as
locals bear the brunt, by Bhushan Yadav (kp
14/10/2023)
731
suspension bridges to be constructed in FY
2023/24 (rep 13/10/2023)
Govt
to terminate contracts for Pokhara-Muglin and
Narayangadh-Butwal roads amid Chinese
contractor’s lax performance (kh 12/10/2023)
Narayangarh-Butwal
road section expansion sees sluggish progress
(kh 12/10/2023)
Barpak-Laprak
road section obstructed for past three months
(rn 10/10/2023) [After
only eight years, the epicentre of the severe
earthquake of 2015 already seems to have been
forgotten!], Landslide-blocked
Barpak-Laprak road resumes after three months
(kh 18/10/2023)
Chobhar
Dry Port sees arrival of electric vehicles for
customs clearance (rep 10/10/2023)
3
killed, 5 injured in Rasuwa truck accident
(kh 10/10/2023)
One
goes missing in Karnali after ropeway breaks
(kh 08/10/2023)
Kathmandu
Metropolis warns of fines up to 900 thousand
rupees for polluting vehicles (kh
07/10/2023)
Signature
Bridge Over Narayani River, by Umesh Puri
(rn 06/10/2023)
EVs
for cleaner transportation in Nepal : As the
country becomes self-reliant on electricity, we
should prioritise investing in electronic
vehicles, by Marshal Rathour (kp 05/10/2023)
Traffic
restored on Prithvi Highway (kh 04/10/2023)
Kaligandaki
corridor obstructed (kh 04/10/2023)
14
passengers injured in road accident (kh
02/10/2023)
High
speed and breach of traffic rules main cause of
road accidents (rep 02/10/2023)
Search
for three missing people in Parbat continues
(kh 01/10/2023)
Two
people die in Salyan jeep accident, 15 injured
(kh 30/09/2023)
High
Court issues interim order Preventing demolition
of Araniko Transport’s bus park in Jadibuti
(kh 29/09/2023)
Rapti
Highway turns into a death trap for travellers :
Officials cite inadequate budget and poor
maintenance. In the last fiscal year, 22 people
died and 110 were injured in 84 accidents on the
highway, by Biplab Maharjan (kp 28/09/2023)
Villagers
unhappy after park takes priority over road :
Sisne rural municipality built Rs40 million
martyr memorial park in the village, which
villagers say does not serve any practical
purpose, by Mashesh KC (kp 27/09/2023)
17
injured in Dang bus accident, one in critical
condition (rep (26/09/2023)
13
injured in Taplejung jeep accident (rn
26/09/2023)
Taskforce
formed to make transport sector reforms in view
of festivals (kh 23/09/2023)
Traffic
cops step up action against unfit vehicles in
Kathmandu Valley (ht 21/09/2023)
Ratnapark-Suryabinayak
express bus service kicks off (rep
20/09/2023), Public
buses get fast lane on Ratnapark-Suryabinayak
road : Public transport operators welcome the
move, advise government to enforce dedicated
lane rule effectively, by Anup Ojha (kp
21/09/2023), Wrong
lane : An exclusive fleet of vehicles that plies
a dedicated lane can’t manage traffic congestion
(kp 22/09/2023)
Naubise-Malekhu
road section to remain closed at nighttime
(kh 19/09/2023)
Students
from remote Baitadi village brave river to reach
school every day : Around 40 students from ward
6 of Sagada village wade through the Nwaghari
river to reach Ganesh Secondary School, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 19/09/2023)
Three
roads to be blacktopped with World Bank’s grant
(kh 18/09/2023)
Disjointed
climate planning : Building roads haphazardly in
the hills has led to erosion and landslides
during the monsoon, by Madhukar Upadhya (kp
18/09/2023)
A
new bridge to be constructed in Narayani River
near Narayanghat Bazar (rep 16/09/2023)
Kathmandu-Tarai
Fast Track: DPR revised, deadline extended, yet
minimal progress : Data shows the design work
and contract process for three tunnels and
nearly half of the total bridges has not been
completed. Even with the ongoing construction of
three tunnels, the overall physical progress
stands at just 41.57 percent, by Pratik
Ghimire (kp 15/09/2023)
Kaligandaki
corridor restricted for night-time vehicular
movement (kh 15/09/2023)
Kathmandu-Terai
Fast Track project sees 26.14 percent progress
in its work (rep 11/09/2023)
15
students injured after a bus carrying them falls
in irrigation canal in Tikapur, by Yogesh
Rawal (rep 11/09/2023)
Floods,
landslides obstruct traffic on three highways
(kh 10/09/2023)
Seven
die in Banke bus accident (kh 09/09/2023)
Highway
accidents are no accident in Nepal : Reckless
driving, poor engineering, and a lack of
emergency response make Nepal’s highways
deathtraps, by Shristi Karki (nt 08/09/2023)
Reflective
belts placed around necks and horns of stray
cattle after increase in road accidents, by
Pushpa Raj Joshi (rep 08/09/2023)
51
EV charging stations launched simultaneously
across the country (rep 06/09/2023), Nepal
has a long way to go to meet target on electric
vehicles : Nepal Electricity Authority brings 51
charging stations into operation, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 07/09/2023)
There
are the three key legal provisions that support
victims of vehicle accident (rep 07/09/2023)
Road
pileup highlights traffic perils in the Valley :
Rate of road accidents has remained unchanged in
traffic-clogged Kathmandu over the past few
years, even as traffic police claim they have
tightened surveillance for rule violations,
by Anup Ojha (kp 04/09/2023)
Preparation
for black-topping road inside Chitwan National
Park, by Basanta Dhungana (rep 03/09/2023)
Three-wheeler
e-rickshaws prohibited on highway (kh
03/09/2023)
Kaligandaki
Corridor road blocked by landslides (KH
03/09/2023)
Contract
awarded for final three packages of
Kathmandu-Terai Fast Track project (rep
01/09/2023)
Dry
landslide obstructs Gorkha-Anbukhairani road
section (kh 018/09/2023)
Protracted
widening work leaves road in decrepit state :
Work on the 114 km Butwal-Narayanghat section
was started four years ago and was supposed to
be completed last year. But the progress is at
35 percent, by Narayan Sharma (kp
31/08/2023)
Landslide
obstructs Narayangadh-Muglin road (kh
31/08/2023)
Three
people die after rolling stone strikes moving
jeep in Palpa (kh 30/08/2023)
Landslides,
floods obstruct four highways (kh
28/08/2023)
Landslide
obstructs Madan Bhandari highway (kh
26/08/2023)
Melamchi-Helambu
road section obstructed (kh 25/08/2023)
Landslide
obstructs Kanti Highway (kh 25/08/2023)
Landslide
blocks Siddhicharan Highway at Bhusune (kh
25/08/2023)
Seven,
including six Indians, killed in bus accident in
Bara (nlt 24/08/2023), Seven
killed, 20 injured in pilgrim bus accident in
Bara : Six Indians are among the dead. Initial
police probe shows driver fell asleep behind the
wheel, by Laxmi Sah (kp 25/08/2023)
Bus
accident claims eight lives as it plunges into
Trishuli river (kh 23/08/2023), Dhading
bus plunge: Eight people confirmed dead, 17
rescued (rep 23/08/2023)
29
passengers injured in bus accident (kh
22/08/2023)
26
injured, 3 critically, in Dhading bus mishap
(kh 19/08/2023)
Landslides
obstruct Mechi Highway (kh 18/08/2023)
Landslide
obstruct Mid-Hill highway, Kaligandaki corridor
(kh 17/08/2023)
820
kilometers of road blacktopped, 222 bridges
constructed in FY 2022/23 (rep 17/08/2023)
DPR
of Kathmandu-Terai Fast Track amended (kh
16/08/2023)
20
injured in 8-vehicles-collision in Tikauli
forest (kh 16/08/2023)
Chinese
contractor’s sluggish work hits a snag on
Muglin-Pokhara Road Project as deadline looms
(kp 15/08/2023), Chinese
firms’ strategy: Contract acquisition at low
cost, bargaining through work delays (kh
15/08/2023)
Transport
to Manang restored after three days of
disruption (rep 15/08/2023)
Mugu
jeep accident: Death toll reaches four (kh
15/08/2023), Mugu
jeep accident: Death toll reaches five (kh
15/08/2023)
Traffic
resumes in landslide-obstructed Prithvi Highway
(kh 14/08/2023)
Highways
blocked across Nepal due to heavy rainfall
(kh 13/08/2023)
Katari-Gaighat
section of Madan Bhandari Highway disrupted
(kh 13/08/2023)
Gamgadhi-Nakchelagna
road project reports 18-km construction in 17
years (kh 13/08/2023)
Two
highways affected by monsoon-induced blockades
(kh 10/08/2023)
Road
collapse obstructs Prithvi Highway (kh
09/08/2023)
Four
killed, five injured in Rolpa bus accident
(rep 08/08/2023), 4
killed, 19 injured after speeding bus loses
control, falls into ravine : The bus heading for
Ghorahi in Dang from Baghmara of Rolpa fell some
150 metres. Two buses were engaged in reckless
speed contest, according to eyewitnesses, by
Kashiram Dangi (kp 09/08/2023)
Tuin
becomes a thing of the past in Kalikot district
: A total of 19 motorable bridges have been
constructed in the outlying district so far
replacing the makeshift cable crossings, locally
known as tuin, by Tularam Pandey (kp
07/08/2023)
Government
considers outsourcing vehicle fitness test to
private sector (rep 05/08/2023)
Several
donor-funded road construction projects record
dismal progress (rep 03/08/2023)
Alternative
being sought to Narayanghat-Mugling road, by
Basanta Dhungana (rep 01/08/2023)
Landslide
risk high on Beni-Jomsom and Beni-Darbang roads
(rep 01/08/2023)
Govt
to operate BRT along the Ratna Park-Surya
Binayak road section (kh 01/08/2023) [So inner-city roads are also
the responsibility of the national government?]
arayangadh-Muglin
road again disrupted by landslide (kh
30/07/2023)
Landslide
obstructs Siddhartha Highway in Palpa
(30/07/2023)
Narayanghat-Mugling
road section obstructed again (nlt
29/07/2023), Two-way
traffic resumes on Muglin-Narayangadh road
section (kh 29/07/2023), Landslide
obstructs Muglin-Narayangadh section again
(kh 29/07/2023)
Traffic
resumes on Mechi Highway after 19 hours (rep
28/07/2023)
Floods,
landslides disrupt Mid-Hill Highway (nlt
27/06/2023)
Four-lane
bridge across Mahakali nearing completion :
Around 92 percent of the construction work is
complete, project officials say, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 26/07/2023)
KMC
fixes parking fees for two-wheelers, four
wheelers : In its notice, the KMC said parking
charges won’t be levied on vehicles carrying
people with disabilities (kp 25/07/2023), Death
traps : The way public infrastructures are left
unattended shows criminal apathy of authorities
to citizen safety (kp 26/07/2023)
One
dead, 13 injured in accident (rep
25/07/2023)
Thirty
injured in bus-truck collision (kh
25/07/2023)
One
dead, 34 injured in hearse mishap in Achham
(kh 23/07/2023)
Frequent
landslides make Jomsom journey perilous : The
Beni-Lete road that runs along the Kaligandaki
river has been severely damaged by landslides in
various places with the beginning of monsoon
this year, by Ghanshyam Khadka (kp
20/07/2023)
159
individuals face action for driving under the
influence of drugs (kh 16/07/2023)
One
killed, 11 injured in road accident in Parbat
(nlt 16/07/2023)
Bridge
construction in Jabdighat area left in limbo :
Authorities are yet to release the funds needed
to construct the bridge over the Babai river
despite government’s repeated assurances, by
Kamal Panthi (kp 16/07/2023)
Nine
suspension bridges constructed in Myagdi (kh
15/07/2023)
Two
Highways Blocked, 15 routes on one-way operation
due to flood and landslides (kh 15/07/2023)
19
injured in Dasdhunga bus accident (kh
14/07/2023)
Stakeholders
call for lasting remedy to landslides along
Maldhunga-Kushmisera road section : Frequent
mudslides on the section have been displacing
families every year, but authorities have been
employing stopgap solutions only, by Prakash
Baral (kp 14/07/2023)
New
suspension bridge brings relief to Hetauda
students : A 74-metre suspension bridge has been
constructed across the Churling river making the
journey to school safer for children during the
monsoon season, by Pratap Bista (kp
12/07/2023)
Pokhara-Mugling
Highway: Pokhara Metropolitan City starts
removing illegal structures along
Pokhara-Bijayapur section of the highway, by
Sandesh Shrestha (rep 10/07/2023)
Bus
accident in Baitadi leaves one dead, 39 injured
(nlt 10/07/2023)
Kathmandu
Valley records 9,683 road accidents and 178
deaths in 11 months of FY 2022/23 (rep
10/07/2023)
Nepal
sees an alarming increase in the number of road
accidents (rep 08/07/2023)
Karnali
Corridor comes back into operation (rep
08/07/2023)
Number
plate reader cameras introduced in Valley : The
cameras are expected to curb overspeeding, which
accounts for over 33 percent of road accidents
in the Valley (kp 07/07/2023)
Bailey
bridge installed over Bhurung rivulet in two
weeks (kh 05/07/2023)
Traffic
police took action against 2,200 riders in last
24 hrs in Kathmandu (rep 05/07/2023)
MoPIT
to extend driving license renewal period to 10
years (rep 05/07/2023)
Vehicular
movement disrupted for five days in hilly areas
of Nawalpur (kh 04/07/2023)
Landslide
blocks Mahakali highway in Darchula (kh
04/07/2023)
Narayangarh-Muglin
road obstructed again (kh 03/07/2023), Narayangadh-Muglin
road cleared, restored for two-way traffic
(kh 03/07/2023)
Illegal
structures encroaching upon Karnali Highway to
be demolished (rep 03/07/2023)
Muglin-Narayangadh
road: Continuous occurrence of landslides
remains a concern (kh 02/07/2023)
Narayangadh-Mughlin
road obstructed again (kh 01/07/2023), Two
way traffic resumes in Narayangadh-Muglin road
section (kp 01/07/2023)
Landslide
disrupts Nishikhola section of Mid-Hill Highway
(rep 01/07/2023)
Landslide
blocks vehicular movement in hilly areas of
Nawalpur (rep 01/07/2023)
Road
or a death trap?, by Ashwin Regmi (rep
30/06/2023)
Landslide
disrupts Kanti Highway (ae 30/06/2023)
Debris
clearance process along Narayanghat-Muglin road
impeded by continuous rainfall (kh
30/06/2023), In
Pictures: Commuters stranded due to landslide in
Narayangadh-Muglin road section (rep
30/06/2023)
Landslide
obstructs vehicular movement along Kaligandaki
corridor (rep 30/06/2023)
Landslide
disrupts Kanti Highway (kh 30/06/2023)
Transport
entrepreneurs, taxi drivers stage demonstration
in Kathmandu (Photo Feature), by Prasan
Gurung (rep 29/06/2023)
Over
two-thirds of road accident deaths in Nepal
involve motorcycles, report says : Seventy-five
percent of two-wheeler accidents occur in
Bagmati Province. One-fifth of the severely
injured individuals in road accidents lose limb
function, while five percent suffer brain damage
(kp 27/06/2023)
Expansion
of road network topmost priority: Minister Jwala
(kh 26/06/2023)
Landslide
blocks Jai Prithvi Highway in Baitadi (kh
25/06/2023)
Mid-hill highway
blocked in Mahabhir (kh 24/06/2023)
Five
die in jeep accident in Gorkha (nlt
23/06/2023), 5
killed, 12 injured in Gorkha jeep accident
(kh 23/06/2023)
Transport
mgmt office that looks like a maze, by Nayak
Paudel (rn 22/06/2023)
Most
tunnel road projects get budget to satisfy
politicians’ whims, officials say : Majority of
about two dozen tunnels proposed around the
country are on drawing board, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 22/06/2023)
Construction
of Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi road connecting China in
a sorry state, by Himal Lamsal (rep
20/06/2023)
Additional
300 kilometerss of road to be blacktopped in
Gandaki (kh 19/06/2023)
Road
accidents go unchecked in Kalikot district : Bad
roads, overloading, and driver’s carelessness
are major causes of accidents, police say. A
nighttime ban for vehicles is not being followed
strictly, by Tularam Pandey (kp 16/06/2023)
Preparations
on to include Devanagari script in embossed
number plates (kh 15/06/2023)
eni-Jomsom
road obstructed (kh 14/06/2023), Vehicular
movement along Beni-Jomsom road section
disrupted due to flood (rep 14/06/2023)
Balen's
Ad Hoc Decision (rep 14/06/2023)
New
transport guideline proposes classifying taxis
into three categories (rep 13/06/2023)
Three
more bridges constructed on Narayanghat-Mugling
road (rep 13/06/2023)
Suryabinayak-Dhulikhel
road expansion: Circular to preserve
archeological structures (kh 12/06/2023)
Eight
pilgrims die in jeep mishap in Pyuthan
(kh12/06/2023)
EV
revolution and the need to be proactive, by
Aditya Acharya (rep 11/06/2023)
Many
Bridges Are Structurally Defective, by Umesh
Puri (rn 09/06/2023)
Palpa
and Butwal connected by cable car : The cable
car, which is about 3 km from Golpark in Butwal
to Basantapur in Palpa with 24 gondolas, was
built with the investment of IME Group (nlt
08/06/2023)
Where
do you park in Kathmandu?, by Anushka Nepal
(ae 08/06/2023)
Prospects
of ropeways in Nepal, by Pratik Ghimire (aw
07/06/2023)
State
neglect leaves Surkhet-Jumla section of Karnali
Highway in dire condition : The 232-km stretch
was last blacktopped in 2012 and annual repairs
have been consistently shoddy, by Tularam
Pandey (kp 06/06/2023)
Kushma
bus mishap injures 18, four in critical
condition (kh 05/06/2023)
Death
toll from Palpa jeep accident reaches four
(nlt 05/06/2023)
Himalayan
highway makes life easier for highlanders : The
Kali Gandaki corridor comes up from the Tarai
plains and passes through Mustang to end at Kora
La, by Nabin Poudel (kp 05/06/2023)
Muglin-Malekhu
road section being upgraded (kh 02/06/2023)
KMC
instructs bus operators to operate out-of-valley
vehicles only from Gongabu Bus Park (kh
02/06/2023)
Prolonged
delay in road widening work worsens dust
pollution, traffic jams : According to officials
at the Butwal-Narayanghat Road Project, only
around 35 percent of the work has been completed
even after repeated deadline extensions, by
Narayan Sharma (kp 28/05/2023)
Preparatory
work for Rs7.34 billion Siddhababa tunnel
project begins : Around 421 travellers have lost
their lives so far in the road section over the
last 10 years, which is a landslide and
rockfall-prone area (kp 28/05/2023)
Lack
of bridge makes life miserable in Rapti Sonari-5,
by Siraj Khan (rn 28/05/2023)
Dilapidated
road prone to accidents makes transportation of
goods from Tatopani border risky (rep
26/05/2023) [The border
crossing is closed most of the time by China
anyway!]
4
people killed in Rukum West jeep accident
(kh 25/05/2023), 5
killed in jeep accident in Rukum (rep
25/05/2023), Five
killed, 11 hurt in West Rukum jeep accident :
Preliminary investigation suggests the vehicle
crashed after a brake failure, police said,
by Mahesh KC (kp 26/05/2023)
Suryabinayak-Dhulikhel
road expansion moves ahead (rep 22/05/2023)
1
killed, 35 injured in Dang Bus collision (ae
19/05/2023)
Shahid
Marga work in limbo : Uncertainty of the project
has deprived the locals of crucial
transportation services, by Mahesh KC (kp
18/05/2023)
ADB
approves $300 million for Kakarbhitta–Laukahi
road upgrade : At least 95 kilometres of road
from Kakarbhitta to Laukahi will be upgraded
from a two-lane to a four-lane dual roadway
(kp 18/05/2023)
Changing
policy is hurting Nepal’s plan to switch to
electric vehicles, experts say : The taxation
policy, for example on EVs, has changed four
times within two years, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 16/05/2023)
Nepalgunj-Dolpa
bus service starts (rn 16/05/2023)
Tanahu
bus mishap injures 27 (kh
15/05/2023)
31
injured in Parsa bus accident (kh
15/05/2023)
Pokharebagar-Chitre
road being blacktopped (kh
15/05/2023)
Dorkhukhola
bridge constructed prior to deadline
(kh 12/05/2023) [!!!]
Tunneling
in highway: Improving safety,
efficiency, and sustainability, by
Krishna C Devkota (ae 08/05/2023)
Satbanj-Sribhawar-Hat
road construction gains pace (kh
08/05/2023)
Postal
Highway achieves completion target of 70
percent (rep 07/05/2023)
Cabbies
stage protest against KMC’s decision to
bar them from parking at roadside
(rep 07/05/2023)
Rural
road incomplete for 14 years due to
funds shortage and government neglect :
Locals of ward 4 of Badigad Rural
Municipality in Baglung have been facing
difficulties due to lack of the road,
by Prakash Baral (kp 06/05/2023)
51
EVs charging stations will come online
in the next one month: NEA (rep
05/05/2023)
CCTV
cameras to be installed on roads in
Thamel area (rep 04/05/2023)
Road
access changes peoples’ life in Lulang
Village (rn 04/05/2023)
Khajura
awaits completion of 1,800-meter road
project for over five years (rep
03/05/2023)
Gauging
the Incredible Tarai down the Hulaki Raj
Marga, by Ravi M Singh (ae
03/05/2023)
Hundreds
stranded along Prithvi Highway following
bridge damage : Vehicular movement has
been disrupted after a portion of a
bridge above the Ganesh Khola in Dhading
sank on Monday (kp 02/05/2023), One-way traffic
resumes along Prithvi Highway (kh
02/05/2023)
Road
upgrade work along Muglin-Malekhu
section begins : The project plans to
have three lanes in steep sections and
six lanes in town areas, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (kp 30/04/2023)
Govt
to reclassify jurisdiction of roads
according to the federal structure
(ae 27/04/2023)
‘Tuins’
of death : Despite the government’s
efforts, it is troubling that ‘tuins’
continue to exist in Nepal, taking more
lives (kp 27/04/2023)
Electric
buses to ply in Lumbini (kh
27/04/2023)
Two
motorable bridges constructed over
Myagdi river (kh 26/04/2023)
Govt
prepares to extend renewal time of
driving license to 10 years (kh
25/04/2023)
People
Still Losing Lives To Tuins, by
Ballav Dahal (rn 24/04/2023)
One
dies, 34 injured in bus accident in
Palpa (nlt 23/04/2023)
Man
dies after falling into Mahakali river
from tuin : Darchula locals risk their
lives daily to cross the river through
cable crossings for a lack of suspension
bridge, by Manoj Badu (kp
23/04/2023)
Transport
entrepreneurs halt cargo along Araniko Highway
(kh 23/04/2023)
Ring
road expansion project to emphasise
safety : The 8.2-km Kalanki-Basundhara
section will be widened during the
second phase (kp 22/04/2023)
Army
gets fourth deadline extension for
Kathmandu-Tarai expressway project :
Improved connectivity with India and
China makes the project strategic,
insiders say (kp 21/04/2023), Govt
extends deadline of
Kathmandu-Terai/Madhesh Fast Track
construction by another four years
(rep 21/04/2023)
Trail
Bridges In Nepal: A Success Story,
by Ramesh Dahal (rn 21/04/2023)
Beni-Jomsom
road section to remain closed for six
hours a day (kh 18/04/2023)
OAG
questions NA regarding Rs 2.76 billion
spent on topics unrelated to Fast Track
project (rep 16/04/2023)
Suspension
bridges make life easy for residents of
isolated Sankhuwasabha villages : Work
on 20 bridges had started three years
a)go. Eleven bridges are already in
operation and work on nine are in final
stages, by Dipendra Shakya (kp
15/04/2023)
Traffic
police book 3,331 rules violators on New
Year’s Eve : According to the Kathmandu
Valley Traffic Office, police booked 291
people for drink-driving on New Year’s
eve on Thursday (kp 15/04/2023)
Making
Highways Disaster Resilient, by
Krishna C Devkota (rn 13/04/2023)
From
convenience to chaos: How misuse of
ride-sharing services is putting Nepali
passengers and drivers in danger, by
Utsav Poudel (nlt 12/04/2023)
Jeep
accident in Baitadi leaves six dead
(nlt 12/04/2023)
Four
Indians killed in road accident in
Sindhuli (nlt 12/04/2023)
Accidents
continue unabated even after roads
expansion, by Laxman Paudel (rn
10/04/2023)
Kathmandu
police book over 4,200 rule violators,
criminals through CCTV surveillance :
Traffic police and crime divisions’ CCTV
footage proves to be a great tool in
gathering evidence, by Anup Ojha (kp
07/04/2023)
Home
Ministry warns of action against
vehicles charging arbitrary fare (kh
06/04/2023)
Hulaki
Road: Construction incomplete even after
extension of deadline five times (kh
06/04/2023)
Cabinet
endorses use of Devanagari script on
embossed number plates (ae
06/04/2023)
Four
die in Manthali road accident (kh
06/04/2023)
Nagdhunga
Tunnel digging halted for 20 days
(kh 05/04/2023)
Road
blacktop wears off in two weeks of
construction (kh 04/04/2023)
One
killed, 12 injured in jeep accident in
Baitadi (nlt 03/04/2023)
Dozen
school bus drivers booked for rules
violation : Since August last year, over
five dozen school drivers have been
punished for drink-driving, an
‘unforgivable’ crime (kp 03/04/2023)
One
dead, seven injured in Ramechhap road
mishap (kh 02/04/2023)
Gorkha
folk struggle to transport essentials
with road upgrade work incomplete : The
deadline was extended to mid-June 2023
but the road project is nowhere near
completion, by Hariram Upreti (kp
02/04/2023)
Three
killed, 10 others injured in Nuwakot
road accident (rep 01/04/2023)
Making
Our Roads Safer, by Yug Bahadur (rn
31/03/2023)
Embossed
plates to be in Devanagari script
(ae 30/03/2023)
12
companies express interests for
feasibility study to operate electric
buses on ring road of Kathmandu Valley
(rep 29/03/2023)
Simultaneous
works on three road sections disrupt lives of
locals : Disruptions in roads linking Janakpur
with several villages affect local businesses,
farmers, and labourers, by Shyam Sundar
Sashi (kp 28/03/2023)
Ranke-Rabi-Bhedetar
road sees dismal progress in 50 months (kh
27/03/2023)
Bhaktapur-Nagarkot
road contract received by Dahal’s landlord to be
terminated (rep 27/03/2023)
Preparations
underway for conducting vehicle’s fitness test
mechanically (kh 27/03/2023)
Mahakali
corridor road project in limbo : Failure to
deposit money in Forest Development Fund has
prevented felling of trees for the project to
move ahead, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
21/03/2023)
KMC
struggles to manage public buses in Kathmandu
(rep 18/03/2023)
Narayangarh-Butwal
road: Blacktopping begins four years after
laying foundation stone (kh 16/03/2023)
Karnali
provincial government constructing 1,000 access
roads (kh 15/03/2023)
Progress
of Nagdhunga Tunnel reaches 50 percent (ae
15/03/2023)
35
underpasses to be built for wildlife mobility
along Narayanghat-Butwal road (rn
15/03/2023)
Blacktopping
begins at Khanti-Jomsom road section (kh
13/03/2023)
Bus
accident in Sindhuli leaves six dead, 28 injured
(nlt 12/03/2023), Six
dead, 30 injured in Sindhuli bus crash :
Preliminary investigation shows the bus rammed
into a hillside after the driver lost control of
the vehicle, police say, by Kumar Karki (kp
13/03/2023)
Electric
vehicles provided by donors dumped in Lumbini
(kh 11/03/2023)
Ritha-Chankatte
road construction at snail pace (kh
08/03/2023)
Don’t
stay silent about harassment and overcharging in
public transport : Dial 103 to complain. In the
past seven months, traffic police have fined 189
vehicle operators for misbehaviour with
passengers, by Anup Ojha (kp 07/03/2023)
Vehicular
movements on Arun bridge resume, by Gokul
Bhujel (rn 06/03/2023)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road fully operational from today (kh
05/03/2023)
11
arrested for driving under the influence of
drugs (kh 05/03/2023)
Dumre-Besisahar
road resumes operation (kh 03/03/2023)
Transport
resumes on Thankot-Chitlang road (kh
02/03/2023)
North
South Corridor waiting completion of numerous
structures (kh 28/02/2023)
Over
3,100 drivers booked for violating traffic rules
in single day in Kathmandu Valley (rep
27/02/2023)
Preparation
intensified for blacktopping of road to
Chhimkeshwori temple (kh 27/02/2023)
Jorpati-Sundarijal
road expansion drive coming closer to completion
(kh 27/02/2023)
Second
phase of Ring Road widening project makes
headway : Urban planners, activists call for
prioritising pedestrians, cyclists and people
with disabilities, by Anup Ojha (kp
26/02/2023)
Siddhartha
Highway to be closed for eight hours a day for
construction of tunnel in Siddhababa (rep
26/02/2023)
Nepalis
turning to electric vehicles in tactical shift :
Statistics show imports jumped 61 percent with
2,009 units of EVs worth Rs5.62 billion ordered
in the first seven months of the current fiscal
year, by Krishana Prasain (kp 24/02/2023), Embracing
EVs for Sustainable Future (rep 24/02/2023)
Valley
roads damaged due to leakage in Melamchi
drinking water pipeline (rep 24/02/2023)
Traffic
police sets 50 km per hour as the speed limit in
Kathmandu valley (kh 23/02/2023)
There
is no problem in ring road expansion due to NEA:
Kulman Ghising (rep 23/02/2023)
Valley
traffic police using automated system for
surveillance : Traffic police head Mira
Chaudhari says they are going for more
automation in controlling traffic rule
violations in the Valley (kp 22/02/2023)
Nagdhunga
tunnel project deadline extended by a year :
Delays caused by Covid-19 among other issues
cited for the extension of the completion period
to April 25 next year (kp 22/02/2023)
Construction
of Takulla Bridge stalled for 12 years (rep
22/02/2023)
Microbus
mishap injures over 40 in Pokhara (kh
19/02/2023)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road to be closed for another 15 days (kh
16/02/2023)
Eight
suspension bridges to be constructed this year
(kh 16/02/2023)
Construction
of flyover begins in Gwarko : The Rs170 million
project is expected to ease traffic congestion
in one of the busiest intersections of the ring
road, by Pawan Pandey (kp 16/02/2023)
Jhapa
reports 75 road fatalities in seven months
(kh 16/02/2023)
Bus
coming from Jomsom to Pokhara plunges into
Kaligandaki (kh 15/02/2023)
Beni-Jomsom
road to be closed 6.5 hours a day from today
(kh 13/02/2023)
‘Guerilla
trail’ remains neglected (kh 11/02/2023)
Dysfunctional
Street Lights in Kathmandu, by Sabin Chand
(rep 09/02/2023)
Baglung-Beni
road turns sorry state of affairs (kh
09/02/2023)
Government
hesitant to revive helmet rule for pillion
riders Before making helmets mandatory for
pillion riders, awareness campaign is needed to
make the rule effective, say officials, by
Anup Ojha (kp 07/02/2023) [??]
“Effective
political initiative a must to resolve Fast
Track issue” (kh 04/02/2023)
Gaighat-Diktel
road construction in limbo (ht 04/02/2023)
Baglung-Pokhara
road section to remain off for 8 hours a day
(kh 01/02/2023)
Almost
all tuins replaced by suspension bridges (kh
31/01/2023)
Gandaki
reports reduction in road accidents, by
Sandesh Shrestha (kh 30/01/2023)
Over
5 yrs gone by, construction of 1.8 km road yet
to be complete (rn 27/01/2023)
Dilapidated
Siddhartha Highway awaiting up-gradation (kh
25/01/2023)
80
small bridges constructed, 60 in progress in
Narayanghat-Butwal road section, by Mina
Kandel (rn 25/01/2023)
Four
killed in jeep accident in Surkhet : An
ill-fated jeep en route to Surkhet from Chinchu
lost its control and plunged 70-80 meters off
the road (nlt 22/01/2023)
After
‘MaPaSe’, police now launch ‘GaPaSe’ drive : In
the past month, police booked 15 persons,
including a US citizen, for driving under the
influence of drugs, by Anup Ojha (kp
18/01/2023)
Time
to operate Muglin-Narayangadh road partially
extended (kh 18/01/2023)
Sagarmatha
highway project still unfinished decades later :
People in the northern parts of Udayapur and
southern parts of Khotang have been facing
serious difficulties in travelling and trading
during the rainy season, by Dilliram
Khatiwada and Dambar Singh Rai (kp 17/01/2023)
Traffic
police say they have made no-horn rule in Valley
more stringent : Data show 11,477 drivers have
been booked for causing noise pollution in the
current fiscal year so far, by Anup Ojha (kp
15/01/2023)
Restoration
of Valley’s damaged roads soon: DPM Shrestha
(rn 13/01/2023) [Wouldn't
this be the job of the municipality instead of
driving out the poorest of the poor?]
Suryabinayak-Dhulikhel
road to become six-lane expressway, by Pawan
Pandey (kp 12/01/2023)
One
and half decade passes, 83% construction of
Postal Highway completes (rn 12/01/2023)
Poorly
built roads turn into death traps in Far West
hills : 19 people died and 30 others were
injured in seven road accidents in Masta Rural
Municipality in past three years, by Basanta
Pratap Singh and DR Pant (kp 11/01/2023)
Construction
of Nagdhunga tunnel pushed back for a year,
by Himal Lamsal (rep 10/01/2023)
Narayangadh-Muglin
Road to open for Maghe Sankranti (kh
08/01/2023)
Six
killed in bus accident in Palpa (nlt
06/01/2023), Palpa
bus mishap: Six die, 18 sustain injuries (kh
06/01/2023)
Mugu-Humla
link road renews hopes of easier life for rural
folks : The new link road has replaced the foot
trail connecting Humla to the rest of the
country through Mugu, by Bidya Rai and Raj
Bahadur Shahi (kp 03/01/2023)
Road
accidents in Nepal : Are poor roads solely to
blame?, by Sugam Gautam (ht 30/12/2022)
Asian
Highway section to open on Jan 1 : The six-lane
highway and a ‘friendship bridge’ built over
Mechi River are expected to start operation from
New Year, by Parbat Portel (kp 29/12/2022)
Public
transport is full of hassles in Kathmandu :
Commuters complain of a range of abuses—from
harassment to violence at the hands of
conductors, by Anup Ojha (kp 26/12/2022)
Signature
bridge to be built over Narayani River, by
Himal Lamsal (rep 25/12/2022)
Six
injured in Khotang bus accident (rn
25/12/2022)
Majority
of the CCTV cameras dysfunctional (kh
24/12/2022)
Save
your head, save your life : A study shows that
helmets are 37 percent effective in preventing
deaths in motorcycle accidents, and 67 percent
effective in preventing brain injuries, by
Bhagabati Sedain and Puspa Raj Pant (nlt
23/12/2022)
SC
issues short-term interim order directing status
quo on Kathmandu-Terai Expressway (kh
21/12/2022), Supreme
Court bars Army from awarding expressway
contract to Chinese company : The court has
scheduled another hearing for Friday (kp
22/12/2022)
Transport
Management Dept asks all concerned to install
embossed number plates by mid-March (kh
21/12/2022)
Transport
Sector In Need Of Revamp, by Uttam Maharjan
(rn 20/12/2022)
One
dies, 14 get injured in Dhading bus accident
(kh 20/12/2022)
Kalanki-Maharajgunj
road widening project in limbo : The widening of
the 8.2km section was set to be carried out by
the Chinese government, and the work was
initially planned to start from early 2020,
by Anup Ojha (kp 18/12/2022)
11
injured in Ramechhap jeep mishap, three
airlifted to Kathmandu (kh 17/12/2022)
Traffic
police recommends license suspension of frequent
rule violators (kh 17/12/2022)
UK
support connects Nepal’s most remote district to
road network : “The successful completion of
this project demonstrates that when local
people, different spheres of government and
experts come together for a common goal, big
changes are indeed possible” (nlt
16/12/2022)
Preventable
deaths : There is a need to inculcate civic
sense among drivers, pedestrians and all
stakeholders on the road (kp 16/12/2022), People-friendly
roads : While the rest of the world is embracing
the concept of ‘streets for people’, Kathmandu
is not, by Shaishav Acharya (kp 16/12/2022)
Action
taken against 456 drivers for violating traffic
rules (kh 16/12/2022)
Kanchanpur
locals block Mahendra Highway following
student’s death in bus-hit (kh 16/12/2022)
Six,
including driver, injured in jeep accident in
Baitadi , by Bira Gadal (rep 15/12/2022)
Madan
Bhandari Highway: No progress seen in 1.5 years
(rep 14/12/2022)
Death
toll from Kavre bus accident reaches 18 (nlt
14/12/2022), Several
members of a family died in Tuesday bus accident
: At least 17 people died and several others
were injured in the bus accident at Bethanchok
Rural Municipality in Kavre, by Jyoti
Shrestha (kp 15/12/2022)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road to halt four hours a day (kh
13/12/2022)
Myagdi-Baglung
connecting bridge comes into operation, by
Amrit Prasad Paudel (rn 13/12/2022)
The
Go-ahead For Embossed Number, by Uttam
Maharjan (rn 13/12/2022)
Govt
criticized for failing to mobilize necessary
resources and equipment for road safety (rep
12/12/20229
Jajarkot
jeep mishap: Death toll reaches 11 (kh
12/12/2022), Jajarkot
jeep mishap: Death toll reaches 12 (kh
13/12/2022)
Mid-Hill
Highway construction works in limbo (kh
12/12/2022)
Bridge
in Baglung village benefits locals (kh
11/12/2022)
18
injured in Nuwakot bus mishap (kh
10/12/2022)
Fervour
For Signature Bridges In Nepal, by Umesh
Puri (rn 08/12/2022)
Mid-hill
Highway makes 64% progress in one and half
decades (rn 05/12/2022)
Poor
vehicle condition leads to more accidents
(rn 05/12/2022)
Karnali
corridor blocked due to dry landslides, by
Lalit Bista (rep 04/12/2022)
Locals’
demand to build suspension bridge in Jajarkot
village goes unheard for the past 15 years
(rep 03/12/2022)
Bridges
yet to be built 3 years after road was completed
: Lack of river crossings has made life
difficult—and dangerous—for the residents of
Dolpa, eastern Jajarkot and northern Rukum,
by Harihar Singh Rathore (kp 02/12/2022)
Speed
limit to be implemented strictly, irrespective
of resources: Traffic Police, by Nayak
Paudel (rn 01/12/2022)
Valley
saw 13 deaths and 214 accidents in two weeks
before elections, traffic police office says :
The office records a rise in road accidents
while many traffic police personnel were away on
election duty (kp 23/11/2022)
Narayanghat-Butwal
road work gathering pace after government warned
contractor : Work should have been finished by
August 7 but progress is at 20 percent, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 22/11/2022)
Silichong
residents cut off from district headquarters :
For lack of concrete bridges across Arun and
Sankhuwa rivers, residents of Silichong Rural
Municipality have to walk 25 kilometres to
district headquarters, by Dipendra Shakya
(kp 18/11/2022)
Botched
road widening job cuts off Nuwakot villages :
Delay in repairing Kathmandu-Kakani-Trishuli
section of Pasang Lhamu Highway is playing havoc
with people’s lives, by Tika R Pradhan and
Arjun Poudel (kp 14/11/2022)
Traffic
deaths rise as police join poll duty : 13 people
died in a week, double the normal tally, in road
accidents in Kathmandu Valley, by Anup Ojha
(kp 14/11/2022)
Three
killed, 12 injured in Pyuthan jeep accident
(kh 09/11/2022)
Kakarbhitta-Laukahi
road expansion to start in few months : The
drive is part of the government plan to expand
the East-West Highway into four lanes, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 08/11/2022)
Public
transportation: Small steps could improve it,
by Simone Galimberti (ht 07/11/2022)
The
reality behind the viral bridge, by Lalit
Bista (rep 02/11/2022)
Embossed
number plates fixed on less than 2% vehicles
(rn 01/11/2022)
Lack
of bus park at city centre stresses commuters :
People who need to travel to the outskirts of
Kathmandu are troubled in the absence of a
proper transport management system in the
Capital, by Anup Ojha (kp 31/10/2022)
Import
of EVs soared five-folds in Q1 of current FY
(rep 31/10/2022)
Karnali
corridor road disrupted for around month now
(kh 30/10/2022)
Bus
crash in Nawalparasi East kills five pilgrims
travelling to Manakamana : The bus bound to
Manakamana, Gorkha from Palpa lost its control
and veered 100 meters off the motorway (nlt
30/10/2022)
Darimba–Chiwabhanjyang
stretch of national pride project left in lurch
: The delay in construction has inconvenienced
local residents and businesspersons, by
Devendra Bhattarai and Laxmi Gautam (kp
30/10/2022)
1.8
million rupees collected in revenue from traffic
rule violators (kh 29/10/2022) [related to
Baglung]
Jeep
accident in Rolpa; three dead including two
brothers (nlt 27/10/2022)
12
dead, 17 injured in Bajhang and Taplejung road
accidents : The jeep involved in Bajhang
accident was overloaded, preliminary police
probe shows, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
20/10/2022)
Road
safety in Nepal is off the track : Nepal’s
current efforts are inadequate to lower
traffic-related fatalities or injuries in the
foreseeable future, by Puspa Raj Pant (kp
19/10/2022)
Sarlahi
bus mishap injures 23, two in critical condition
(kh 17/10/2022)
Traffic
Police take action against 1,407 drivers for
various offences (kh 16/10/2022)
Several
bridges along BP Highway in sorry state : For
lack of timely repairs, the bridges and roads
have turned accident-prone, by Raj Kumar
Karki (kp 14/10/2022)
Bardiya
section of Postal Highway obstructed (kh
14/10/2022)
Landslide
obstructs Mahakali highway (kh 09/10/2022)
13
injured in Ramechhap bus mishap (kh
09/10/2022)
Dry
landslide disrupts traffic at Barha Ghumti of
Tribhuvan Highway (kh 08/10/2022)
Death
toll in Bara bus accident hits 16 (nlt
06/10/2022)
Landslides
disrupt various roads across country (kh
06/10/2022)
Road
disrupted in eastern Nawalparasi (kh
06/10/2022)
Two
die, 36 get injured in bus accident in
Makawanpur (kh 03/10/2022)
Electric
buses providing free service in Lumbini as trial
: The bus routes allow visitors to tour the
greater Lumbini area that covers several
historical places related to Buddha, by
Madhav Dhungana (kp 02/10/2022)
One
dead, seven injured in Dhading road accident
(kh 01/10/2022)
22 injured in
Dang bus accident, by Liladhar Oli (rn
01/10/2022)
Dry
landslide disrupts Galchhi-Devighat road section
(kh 30/09/2022)
Make
Road Transport Safe, by Yug Bahadur (rn
30/09/2022)
Focus
on road safety (ae 29/09/2022)
Electric
vehicles start plying in Lumbini : The vehicles
were brought here with the support of the Asian
Development Bank and they remained
non-operational in absence of a modality for
operation (nlt 29/09/2022)
Eight
killed in Salyan jeep accident (nlt
28/09/2022)
Monsoon-induced
incidents obstruct 28 roads across country
(kh 26/09/2022)
Narayanghat-Butwal
road widening work at snail’s pace, govt warns
of terminating contract : The project was
expected to complete on August 7, 2022. However,
the construction company completed just 18
percent of the total task by the final deadline
(nlt 26/09/2022), Roads
office warns Chinese contractor over work delay,
threatens to terminate contract : Department of
Roads accuses China State Construction
Engineering Corporation Limited of neglecting
maintenance of pothole-riddled
Narayanghat-Butwal road, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 26/09/2022)
Vehicles
barred from entering New Road on four days
(kh 26/09/2022), City,
traffic police fail to enforce four-wheeler ban
at New Road : Authorities, however, haven’t
given up and say the ban will be effective from
today (kp 26/09/2022)
Traffic
police take action against 3,296 traffic rule
violators in Valley (kh 26/09/2022)
Time
card system to be enforced to prevent road
accidents during festival period (kh
25/09/2022)
In
pics: Kathmandu roads in a sorry state (nlt
24/09/2022)
RCC
bridge makes Tanahu folks’ lives easier (kh
24/09/2022)
Parking
arrangements made at Tundikhel for vehicles
entering New Road (kh 24/09/2022)
135-year-old
suspension bridge awaits maintenance (ht
23/09/2022)
Managing
metropolitan traffic and public transport : Can
it expedite mass tourism in Nepal?, by Anand
Aditya (ht 22/09/2022)
7
killed, 18 injured in Hetauda mini bus accident
(rn 22/09/2022), 5
killed, 13 injured in Rukum-East bus accident
(rn 22/09/2022), 12
dead, more than 35 injured in two separate road
accidents : Seven people died when the bus they
were on fell off the road in Jurikhet, Makwanpur
while five people died in another accident in
Kyangsi Bagar, Rukum (East), by Subash
Bidari & Kashiram Dangi (kp 23/09/2022)
Mid-Hill
Highway shapes future of Dailekh (kh
22/09/2022)
Kathmandu-Terai
Fast Track set to miss 2024 deadline, project
records only 21.18 percent physical progress
(rep 18/09/2022)
Parliamentary
panel instructs OPMCM to punish those involved
in illegal awarding of contract for
Kathmandu-Terai Fast Track (rep 12/09/2022)
Transform
Transport Into Economic Artery, by Suresh P
Singh and Yatika Agrawal (rn 11/09/2022)
Road
widening work along Lamahi-Tulsipur moving at
snail’s pace : The road has become a death-trap
of late, one transportation entrepreneur said,
by Durgalal KC (kp 04/09/2022)
Kathmandu’s
parking problems: Bad to worse, by Cilla
Khatry (ae 01/09/2022)
Amitav
Buddha road in Bouddhanath damaged three months
after blacktopping (kh 02/09/2022)
Mid-Hill
highway completely obstructed (kh
01/09/2022)
Muglin-Narayangadh
road obstructed due to mudslides (kh
01/09/2022)
Kavrepalanchowk
section of Suryabinayak-Dhulikhel road to be
constructed in three years (kh 31/08/2022)
Mahakali
corridor sees snail-pace progress, only 30 km
blacktopped in 12 years (nlt 29/08/2022)
Floods
obstruct Melamchi-Helambu road (kh
28/08/2022)
Landslide
obstructs Baglung-Beni road (kh 28/08/2022)
Electoral
constituency strategic road limited to
declaration, by Himal Lamsal (rep
28/08/2022)
Slow
construction of Mid-Hill highway, a project of
national pride, by Himal Lamsal (rep
25/08/2022)
Defunct
lampposts pose risk for passers-by : Most of the
street lights have been defunct for over a
decade. While they have been replaced with solar
lamps in some areas, those tall poles have not
been removed, by Anup Ojha (kp 24/08/2022)
Karnali
Highway to remain closed for 36 hours (kh
23/08/2022)
A
scary journey on Karnali highway, by Lalit
Bista (rep 23/08/2022)
Landslips
obstruct Beni-Jomsom road section (nlt
22/08/2022)
Rain
damages temporary bridges and track in Melamchi,
by Himal Lamsal (rep 22/08/2022)
Prithvi
Highway road widening work at snail’s pace : The
highway’s 80-km Aanbukhaireni-Pokhara section is
being widened to four lanes, but pandemic and
delay in site clearance have hampered the work,
by Samjhana Rasaili (kp 22/08/2022)
Dhangadhi’s
Six-lane Road: Impractical crossings costing
travelers time and money, by Pushpa Raj
Joshi (rep 22/08/2022)
Landslides
block various roads in Makwanpur (rep
21/08/2022)
Casualties
among bikers alarmingly high in valley (ht
20/08/2022)
The
story of a road track which could not be opened
even in four decades, by Lali Bista (rep
19/08/2022)
Nepalgunj-Kohalpur
road expansion stalled for four months, by
Arjun Oli (rep 19/08/2022)
Five
dead, nine injured in jeep accident in Darchula
: The jeep was on its way to the district
headquarters, Khalanga, from Gokuleshwar when
the accident occurred at Shailyashikar
Municipality-6, Ullani, by Manoj Badu (kp
17/08/2022)
Rubber
dividers replace concrete dividers on Lalitpur
Metropolis roads (rep 15/08/2022)
Ratna
Highway closed after two dead bodies found
(rep 15/08/2022)
Landslide
blocks Pasang Lhamu Highway (rn 12/08/2022)
Manaslu
foot trail fraught with dangers : Loose boulders
rolling down the Yarubhir in Dharche-1 are
becoming a major cause of frequent accidents,
by Hariram Upreti (kp 12/08/2022)
Progress
report of road projects undertaken by Nepali
Army (kh 11/08/2022)
Bridge
construction resumes after 12 years : Foundation
was laid in 2010 but construction of the Bagmati
bridge in Durga Bhagawati Municipality was
halted after the river changed its course,
by Shiva Puri (kp 11/08/2022)
The
pedal on EVs : The need to increase investment
in battery chargers along proportionate
intervals is a no-brainer (kp 11/08/2022)
14
injured in Tanahun Microbus accident, by
Amar Raj Naharki (rn 11/08/2022)
Syaubari–Rasuwagadhi
road upgrade work halted by pandemic yet to
resume, by Balaram Ghimire (kp10/08/2022)
Landslide
obstructs Helambu Highway (nlt 09/08/2022)
Provinces
to maintain uniformity in conducting driving
license test (kh 09/08/2022), All
provinces to implement ‘70 points system’ in
trial exams for driving license (rep
11/08/2022)
Important
trade route with India has been in a state of
disrepair for a decade, by Himal Lamsal (rep
09/08/2022)
Five
vehicles collide in Hetauda, 15 students injured
(kh 08/08/2022)
Electric
vehicle imports see-saw as government policy
fluctuates : Experts say different budgets come
up with different priorities on EVs just as
Nepal aims replace fossil fuel vehicles creating
confusion, by Krishana Prasain (kp
08/08/2022)
Dumre-Besisahar
and Besisahar-Chame road blocked by landslide
(kh 07/08/2022)
KMC
and traffic police to make 'No Horn' effective
(rep 07/08/2022), City,
traffic police reintroduce ‘no horn’ policy in
Kathmandu : This is the third time traffic
police and city office have introduced the ‘no
horn’ rule (kp 08/08/2022)
Delay
in culvert construction leads to inundation in
Kapan, by Upendra Lamichhane (rep
07/08/2022)
Police
and Lalitpur Metropolitan City in jurisdiction
dispute over road traffic management : Kathmandu
Valley Traffic Police Office says City can’t
impose traffic rules unilaterally. Experts agree,
by Anup Ojha (kp 07/08/2022)
Muglin-Narayangadh
road section blocked again (kh 05/08/2022)
Beni-Jomsom
road section resumes (kh 05/08/2022)
After
criticism, government mulls embossed number
plates in Devanagari script : Department of
Transport says it has already asked the
contractor to see if it is possible to print
embossed number plates in Devanagari, by
Anup Ojha (kp 05/08/2022)
There’s
a bridge, but where’s the road? Nuwakot
villagers question the logic of a bridge that
has no motorable road on one of its ends, by
Dev Chanra Bhatta (ae 04/08/2022)
Landslide
blocks Besisahar-Chame road (rep 04/08/2022)
Landslides,
floods completely disrupt five roads, 13
partially (rn 04/08/2022)
99%
consturction work of Mahakali bridge completed
(rn 04/08/2022)
Traffic
police take action against 2,748 for violating
traffic rules in Valley (kh 04/08/2022)
Running
out of road : Cities of the future need to
invest more in alternative modes of transport
(kp 03/08/2022)
Mid-hill
Highway: Less than 10 percent progress with just
six months remaining of the deadline (rep
03/08/2022)
Construction
of Postal Highway Sarlahi road section slows
down (rn 03/08/2022)
Landslide
at Devisandh of Kanti Highway (rep
03/08/2022)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road section blocked again (kh 03/08/2022)
Traffic
disrupted in various road sections in Makawanpur
(kh 03/08/2022)
Floods,
landslides disrupt roads in Myagdi and Manang :
Hundreds of passengers have been stranded due to
disruption in vehicular movement, by
Ghanshyam Khadka (kp 02/08/2022)
Landslide
obstructs Prithvi highway (kh 02/08/2022)
Landslide
in Majhuwa blocks Gorkha-Aanbu Khaireni road
(rep 02/08/2022)
Even
a small rally or festival can throw Valley’s
traffic out of gear : Experts say solutions need
to be sought immediately to avoid gridlocks in
the future, by Anup Ojha (kp 02/08/2022)
Landslides
obstruct Narayangadh-Muglin road section (kh
01/08/2022), Disrupted
Narayangarh-Muglin road section reopens (kh
01/08/2022)
Rain
damages Araniko Highway affecting transportation
(kh 01/08/2022)
Landslides
block Mid-hill Highway (rep 01/08/2022)
Rain
obstructs Karnali Corridor since a week (kh
31/07/2022)
Lawmakers
demand removal of road obstructions (kh
28/07/2022)
Landslide
again disrupts Dumre-Besisahar road (kh
28/07/2022)
Tanahun
records death of 49 people in road accidents in
one year (kh 28/07/2022)
Valley
authority under fire for attempting to erect
lamp post at Ratnapark : Heritage activists
vandalised the plinth of the post saying it
stands in the way of the annual Seto
Machhindranath chariot procession, by Anup
Ojha (kp 28/07/2022)
Thirty-three
people injured as bus catches fire (kh
27/07/2022)
Completion
of Kathmandu-Tarai Expressway project on time
doubtful (rep 26/07/2022)
1,293
killed in road mishap in three years in Lumbini
province (rn 26/07/2022)
Landlsides
obstruct Kaligandaki corridor (kh
26/07/2022)
Blacktopping
of Mahure-Foksingtar road in limbo (kh
25/07/2022)
Karnali
Province: 392 people died in road accidents in
three years, by Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep
25/07/2022)
Lalitpur
plans public bicycle sharing. Good move, say
cycle enthusiasts but with caveat : The proposed
scheme is part of efforts to encourage
eco-friendly commute but urban planners and
cyclists say it needs meticulous planning,
by Anup Ojha (kp 25/07/2022)
Six
dead, 16 injured in bus accident in Palpa
(kh 24/07/2022), Six
dead and 16 injured of Laghuwa bus accident
identified, by Mukti Neupane (rep
25/07/2022)
Tree
falls on passenger bus, scooter in Bhaktapur
killing three people (kp 24/07/2022), Trees
of Bhaktapur, Sallaghari area to be cut (rep
25/07/2022)
Action
taken against 1,941 drivers in Kathmandu Valley
for violating traffic rules (kh 22/07/2022)
Kaligandaki
corridor sees pace in up-gradation (kh
20/07/2022)
‘Vehicle
scanning machine’ being installed at Nagdhunga
(kh 18/07/2022)
Two
more bridges linking Karnali, Sudurpaschim
provinces developed (nlt 17/07/2022)
One
killed, five injured in Nuwakot accident (kh
17/07/2022)
Landslide
blocks Bahrabise-Tatopani road (kh
15/07/2022)
NA
hands over 18-km road in Gorkha (kh
12/07/2022)
Siddhababa
Tunnel Way : Contractor starts design work,
construction to begin from next February, by
Himal Lamsal (rep 11/07/2022)
Butwal-Narayanghat
road progresses 18 percent in 41 months (rep
10/07/2022) [Wow!]
Villagers
suffer in the absence of suspension bridge in
Thalara : The people of five local units in
Bajhang, Doti and Baitadi districts have been
hit hard after floods in October last year
destroyed the bridge linking Deura Bazaar and
Thalara, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
08/07/2022)
Bridge
failures in Nepal: What causes them?, by
Udit Narayan Deo (ht 07/07/2022)
Sajha
electric buses come into operation from today
(rep 07/07/2022), Sajha
Yatayat flags off three electric buses, to roll
on Valley routes : Thirty-seven more electric
buses will arrive in Kathmandu by mid-August,
according to the cooperative (kp 08/07/2022)
Drainage
work along Jamal-Kantipath road creates hassle
for locals : Department of Roads has dug up
about 300 metres of the section and left the
work incomplete in the rainy season, by Anup
Ojha (kp 07/07/2022)
Nine killed in
Ramechhap bus accident (kh 05/04/2022), Nine
dead, 23 hurt in Ramechhap bus accident (rn
05/07/2022), Death
toll of Ramechhap bus accident climbs to 13
(kh 05/07/2022)
Row
Over Embossed Number Plates, by Uttam
Maharjan (rn 05/07/2022)
Action
taken against 2,042 drivers in Kathmandu Valley
in a single day (kh 03/07/2022)
41
injured in bus accident in Dhading (rep
01/07/2022)
World
Bank approves USD 275 million for
Butwal-Chanauta road expansion : The project
will upgrade 69 km two-lane section of
Butwal—Gorusinghe—Chanauta road along the
East-West Highway to a climate-resilient
four-lane highway, with a focus on ensuring
better road safety (nlt 30/06/2022)
East-West
Highway disrupted, settlements at risk of
inundation by Narayani river : The Department of
Hydrology and Meteorology issued a notice on
Wednesday appealing to the residents of
Kawasoti, Danda and Giruwari areas to exercise
caution, by Narayan Sharma (kp 30/06/2022)
What’s
the deal with embossed number plates? Many see
the embossed number plate provision as just
another ploy to line the pockets of corrupt
bureaucrats, by Cilla Khatry (ae 28/06/2022)
One
killed, 11 injured in Saptari bus accident
(kh 23/06/2022)
Baglung
section of Kaligandaki corridor blocked (rep
21/06/2022)
Karnali
highway in critical condition, by Govinda KC
(kp 20/06/2022)
How
to get an embossed number plate? Government aims
to fit embossed number plates on 2.5 million
vehicles in the next 15 months, by Anup Ojha
(kp 18/06/2022)
One
dead, seven injured in Pyuthan jeep accident
(rn 15/06/2022)
Govt's
priority: 'Buddhisingh road as alternative to
Prithivi Highway' (rn 11/06/2022)
Bridge
over Tilawe River still incomplete in 7 years
(rn 11/06/2022)
Vehicular
movement obstructed as road collapses in Prithvi
Highway (nlt 10/06/2022), Two
dead bodies recovered from collapsed road site
in Tahanun (kh 10/06/2022)
Kathmandu-Terai
Fast Track: Construction work halted, quality of
work being supervised (kh 09/06/2022)
Butwal-Narayanghat
road nowhere near complete : The deadline for
the road expansion project is two months away
but only about 17 percent of the work has been
completed so far, by Narayan Sharma (kp
09/06/2022)
Nine
killed as bus plunges off bridge in Rupandehi
(nlt 05/06/2022)
You
will face action if you do not get an embossed
number plate for your vehicle by mid-July,
by Bimal Lamsal (rep 05/06/2022), How
will embossed number plates be affixed to 1.7
million vehicles within a month and a half?
(rep 06/06/2022), Embossed
number plates not mandatory for all vehicles
from July 17: DoTM (nlt 07/06/2022), “Embossed
number plates will raise Rs 7 billion in
revenue” : They are more scientific than the old
handwritten ones, by Laxman Phuyal (kh
08/06/2022), The
controversy about the new embossed number plate
: Transport management office revises decision
on compulsory adoption of the vehicle number
plates after public outcry, by Anup Ojha (kp
08/06/2022), Embossed
plates must only for new vehicles: DoTM, by
Kiran Lama (ht 08/06/2022), Embossed
plate company involved in scam : Bangladeshi
firm making embossed license plates in Nepal was
blacklisted for fraud by the World Bank, by
Ramesh Kumar (nt 10/06/2022)
Unfinished
road construction affects Diktel residents : The
dilapidated road section has led to drainage
problems in the main bazaar area and with
monsoon almost here, the area is in danger of
inundation, by Dambar Singh Rai (kp
02/06/2022)
325
kms roads blacktopped, 80 road bridges
constructed in eight months of current FY:
Economic Survey (kh 29/05/2022)
Darchula
villagers still forced to use cable link to
cross Mahakali River : People from about half a
dozen villages have been risking their lives to
reach the district headquarters, by Manoj
Badu (kp 28/05/2022)
Road
accidents claim 43 lives in Tanahun in last 10
months (ht 28/05/2022)
Four
killed in Dailekh road accident (nlt
26/05/2022), Four
killed in Dailekh bus mishap identified (kh
26/05/2022)
1
killed, 3 injured in Rolpa road accident (kh
25/05/2022)
Capital’s
commuters, drivers demand bus parks for
short-route transport : Lack of a bus park for
short- and medium-route vehicles has
inconvenienced thousands of commuters who rely
on public vehicles, by Anup Ojha (kp
23/05/2022)
Doti
bus mishap: 13 injured; child goes missing
(kh 21/05/2022)
At
least 13 killed as jeep carrying voters skids
off road in Syangja (nlt 13/05/2022), Jeep
mishap toll reaches 14, thirteen sustain
injuries (kh 13/05/2022)
30
injured in Doti bus accident (kh 12/05/2022)
Two
killed, 25 injured in separate road accidents
(kh 09/05/2022)
Section
of Prithvi Highway in sorry state : Commuters
and local residents are severely impacted as the
authorities don’t bother to repair the
dilapidated road, by Samjhana Rasaili (kp
08/05/2022)
“Giving
over a small amount of road space for cycle
lanes can reduce traffic congestion”, by
Bidyanath Koirala (kh 04/05/2022)
Five
killed, 18 injured as bus carrying Indian
pilgrims collides head-on with jeep, by Anil
Bhandari (rep 04/05/2022)
95
percent work of Madan Bhandari Highway completed,
by Anil Bhandari (rep 28/04/2022)
Road
upgrade underway along 24-km Dharke-Sitapaila
section : Completion is much-awaited since the
section is set to become an important
alternative to Naubise-Nagdhunga road, by
Sarita Shrestha (kp 23/04/2022)
Nepal’s
journey to electric public transport : The first
of a fleet of new battery-powered public buses
will start being tested in Kathmandu next week
(nt 22/04/2022)
It
took 11 years to complete construction of a
bridge over Bagmati!, by Anil Bhandari (rep
22/04/2022)
Dharan-Pathibhara
journey reduced by four hours (ht
22/04/2022)
Bajhang
folk fear disconnect from national road network
: The district was disconnected from the
national road network for about a month :
n October last year as the floods and landslides
severely damaged Jaya Prithvi Highway, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 21/04/2022)
Traffic
police collects 4 mln in revenue (kh
21/04/2022)
Road
connectivity eases life of rural folks in Achham
: Road connectivity has led to a boom in
agricultural output and small businesses in the
villages since transportation has opened up new
markets and possibilities, by Menuka
Dhungana (kp 18/04/2022)
BP
Highway obstructed as local people protest a
boy’s death (kh 17/04/2022)
Jeep
crash in Syangja: 4 killed, 5 injured (kh
17/04/2022)
One
killed, three injured in road accident (kh
17/04/2022)
17
injured in Dhading microbus mishap (kh
17/04/2022)
2
killed, 4 injured in Palpa bus accident (kh
16/04/2022)
Construction
of bridges along Tamor corridor in limbo : To
avoid travel disruption during the monsoon,
local residents have been demanding that the
road project build bridges at the earliest,
by Ramesh Chandra Adhikari (kp 16/04/2022)
Beni-Maldhunga
road to be closed for five hours daily (kh
16/04/2022)
New
transport fares in effect, start at Rs20 :
Government decides to implement automated
pricing system—fares rise or drop whenever fuel
prices go up or down by more than 5 percent
(kp 15/04/2022)
Road
accidents claim lives of 360 people in Bagmati
Province in a year (nlt 15/04/2022)
What’s
driving up land prices along the fast track?,
by Pratik Ghimire (ae 14/04/2022)
Okhaldhunga
jeep mishap: 2 police officials killed, 8
injured (kh 13/04/2022), Three
dead, six injured in road accident in
Okhaldhunga : The jeep enroute to Biratnagar
from Solukhumbu District Police Office fell
about 100 metres off the road, police said
(kp 13/04/2022)
Narayangadh-Butwal
road expansion work going at snail’s pace : The
deadline for the road expansion work is only a
few months away but the completion of the
project is still in question, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (kp 12/04/2022), Long
way to Narayangadh
The endless road expansion project, which began
in 2019, has become a nuisance for travellers
(/kp 13/04/2022)
24
injured in Sarlahi bus accident (kh
11/04/2022)
Destroyer
of civilization? The expressway’s construction
through Bungamati and Khokana will destroy
several heritage sites and ancient
settlements—and with them a civilization, by
Pratik Ghimire (ae 07/04/2022)
Maldhunga-Beni
road section to closed for five hours for 22
days (kh 06/04/2022)
Bridge
Construction Moving At Snail’s Pace (rn
05/04/2022)
Pushpalal
Mid-Hill Highway suffers damage even before its
completion : The project deadline has been
extended time and again. The latest timeframe
ends on April 13 this year, by Aash Gurung
(kp 03/04/2022)
A
whiff of partisan, geopolitical interference :
PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal was not in favor of an
Indian company getting the mega-project. Dahal
then chose the army to complete it. It was a
wonderful opportunity for the Maoist chairman to
rebuild strain ties with the institution, by
Pratik Ghimire (ae 05/04/2022)
Fast
and dangerous : The authorities must strengthen
their surveillance mechanism to punish rogue
drivers (kp 30/03/2022)
NOC
proposes granting public holiday on Sunday to
reduce fuel consumption : Suggests to
re-introduce the odd-even system in
transportation (kh 29/03/2022), NOC
requests govt to apply odd-even rule for
vehicles, declare holiday on Sunday too
(rep 29/03/2022)
How
rising fuel prices is changing the way people
commute : With fuel prices hitting an all-time
high, consumers are resorting towards
alternative ways of commuting making significant
lifestyle changes, but others who do not have
such privilege are anxious about the future,
by Pinki Sris Rana (kp 29/03/2022)
Four
Killed, 25 Injured In Sarlahi Bus Accident,
by Janarjan Khatri (rn 27/03/2022)
Two
killed, 12 others sustain injury in road mishap
(kh 18/03/2022)
What
if… the fast track project was completed on
time?, by Pratik Ghimire (ae 17/03/2022)
Police
tighten traffic rules, arrest 163 vehicles
during Holi (kh 17/03/2022) [Arresting vehicles is likely
to be difficult!]
RCC
bridge constructed over Phedi rivulet (kh
14/03/2022)
DoTM
to suspend taking new applications for driving
license tests from Tuesday (rep 14/03/2022)
One-Third
Of Capital’s Traffic Lights Not Functioning
(rn 14/03/2022)
Two
killed, 28 injured in Sindhuli tipper mishap
(kh 14/03/2022), Two
Dead, Six Seriously Injured In Tripper Accident
In Sindhuli (rn 14/03/2022)
Phoksingtar
Bridge not completed in nine years (kh
13/03/2022)
Transport
entrepreneurs reiterate warning to hike
passenger fare on their own if govt doesn’t
adjust it (rep 13/03/2022)
FNNTE
wants adjustment of transport fare by March 21
(kh 13/03/2022)
At
least 14 killed in Sankhuwasabha bus accident
(nlt 10/03/2022), Fifteen
dead, four injured in Sankhuwasabha bus accident
: Passenger bus en route to Damak of Jhapa from
Sankhuwasabha swerved off the road and fell
around 300 metres down a cliff, by Dipendra
Shakya (kp 11/03/2022)
Lack
of fast track progress raises questions over
Nepal Army’s credibility, by Pratik Ghimire
(ae 10/03/2022)
Postal
road construction in Kanchanpur in limbo (ht
10/03/2022)
Residents
of hill districts in Province 1 benefit from
road connectivity : The road access has also
given a boost to economic activities and import
and export of food items in the area, by
Laxmi Gautam (kp 09/03/2022)
Enhancing
mass transit : Road expansion is a never-ending
process unless efforts are made to curb the
number of vehicles (kp 09/03/2022)
Beni-Jomsom
road to remain closed for 5 hrs a day from today
(kh 07/03/2022)
Minister
Yadav inspects Lamosanghu-Jiri road section
(kh 07/03/2022)
Transporters
warn of unilaterally hiking passenger fares if
authorities turn apathetic to their demand
(rep 07/03/2022)
Unplanned
infrastructure development in Gulmi takes toll
on environment : Roads are built without
assessing their impact on the environment,
leading to landslides and drying up of water
sources, by Gaganshila Khadka (kp
06/03/2022)
The
what, where and when of the fast track : The
process of inviting international bidders for
the fast track started after 2011, but the
response was tepid. The project was largely seen
as light in terms of returns, by Kamal Dev
Bhattarai (ae 03/03/2022)
Landslides
vulnerability and rural roads, by Yogendra
Subedi and Anustha Shrestha (kh 03/03/2022)
NPC
directs to carry out feasibility study of tunnel
construction in Myagdi (kh 02/03/2022)
Reckless
Behaviour On Roads Risking Lives (rn
28/02/2022)
New
provisions to clear highway obstruction (ht
27/02/2022)
Bensishahar-Chame
road to close for 15 days (kh 26/02/2022)
In
futile exercise, Nepal imports new generation
fuel for old generation vehicles : The gasoline
currently being sold is Euro VI standard, but
most motor vehicles only comply with Euro II or
Euro III norms, by Krishana Prasain (kp
26/02/2022)
Pedaling
as an act of rebellion : After years of bicycle
commuting, I have realized something important:
cycling challenges injustice on the road. Riding
a bicycle in Kathmandu is confronting power and
privilege, by Sunil Acharya (rec 25/02/2022)
Fast
track debacle : There is a consensus that the
army’s role in the project should be thoroughly
evaluated (ae 24/02/2022)
Road
project linking Tarai and Kathmandu might face
further delays : Sluggish construction work
coupled with uncertainty in budget allocation
could further delay the project’s completion
whose deadlines have been extended twice, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 23/02/2022)
Nepal
goes electric, but conditions apply : While
private EV sales boom, battery-operated buses
fail to gain traction because of high taxes,
by Ramesh Kumar (nt 18/02/2022)
Jumla
road sees no progress despite allocation of
enough budget (rep 18/02/2022)
Locals
suffer as dilapidated bridges in Gorkha lie
unrepaired : The rickety condition of two
bridges has forced the locals and tourists alike
to risk their life and limb while crossing them,
by Hariram Upreti (kp 15/02/2022)
Under-construction
bridge left in lurch (ht 11/02/2022)
Thalara
folks face trouble as flood sweeps away
suspension bridge (kh 10/02/2022)
As
EVs sales soar in Nepal, companies are
aggressively installing charging stations :
Major automotive brands including Hyundai, Tata,
Kia, MG and BYD are intensifying installation of
charging points across the country. The move
will provide charging support and the
opportunity to extend journey distances to users
(nlt 09/02/2022)
Six
groups interested in building smart parking
systems at 36 locations in Valley (rep
09/02/2022)
Kathmandu,
Terai and Madhesh Fast Track will not face any
type of budget shortage: Finance Ministry (rep
09/02/2022)
Nepali
Army approves designs of tunnels to be built
along Kathmandu-Terai Fast Track (kh
08/02/2022)
18
km road constructed by collecting donations
(kh 06/02/2022)
13
people die, 30 injured in separate road
accidents : Eight people died when a jeep
carrying a wedding procession swerved off the
road at Gaumukhi Rural Municipality-6 in Pyuthan
on Saturday, by Shamsher Bikram GC (kp
06/02/2022)
Transport
workers demand federal government to adjust
transport fare (kh 05/02/2022)
Minister
Jhakri inspects areas with road encroachment (rep
02/02/2022)
Nepal’s
electric vehicle imports surge after tax cuts :
According to the Department of Customs, 1,103
battery-powered cars worth Rs3.24 billion
entered the country between mid-July and
mid-January, by Krishana Prasain (kp
02/02/2022)
Taxi
operators unhappy after odd-even rule is lifted
only for mass transport vehicles : Taxi
Association threatens protests if the
authorities continue the rule. There are 12,500
taxi operators in Kathmandu Valley and many of
them are struggling to pay their bank loans,
by Anup Ojha (kp 01/02/2022)
Fewer
public vehicles, more commuters : The odd-even
rule re-introduced to restrict movement has
quelled the number of vehicles on the roads, but
commuters say it has only added to their woes,
by Aishwarya Baidar (rec 28/01/2022)
Trees
being chopped for Muglin-Pokhara road expansion
drive (kh 28/01/2022)
Nepal
imported 1,103 units of EVs during mid-July and
mid-Jan this fiscal, almost five-fold of 249
units of FY 2020/21 (rep 25/01/2022)
Are
electric vehicles solution to Kathmandu’s
traffic congestion : Experts say Nepal should
start considering different options for long
drives and mass transportation before it’s too
late, by Krishana Prasain (kp 23/01/2022)
Kathmandu
to get additional two overhead bridges (kh
23/01/2022)
Mugling-Pokhara
road expansion, up-gradation begins from western
part (rep 17/01/2022)
Death
toll of Tanahu jeep accident reaches six (kh
15/01/2022)
Embossed
number plates mandatory for vehicles applying
for renewal from January 15 (rep 10/01/2022)
Taxi
fare in Valley to increase by 20 percent from
mid-January (rep 10/01/2022), Bagmati
Province hikes taxi fare effective from Jan 15 :
Flag-drop charge increased to Rs60 from existing
Rs14 and fare fixed at Rs9.80 per 200 metres
from Rs7.80, by Anup Ojha (kp 11/01/2022)
Blocked
Syafrubesi-Rasuwagadhi section of Pasang Lhamu
Highway opens for traffic (kh 08/01/2022)
Civic
group to march today for making Ring Road
‘accessible to all’ : Campaigners say the
Koteshwar-Kalanki stretch has many flaws and
they should not be repeated in
Kalanki-Maharajgunj section, by Anup Ojha
(kp 08/01/2022)
Nagdhunga-Naubise
tunnel construction sees 27 percent work
progress (rep 06/01/2022)
Kathmandu's
notorious traffic jams: A few solutions, by
Shankar Man Singh (ht 06/01/2022)
Removal
of landslide debris begins in Rasuwa (kh
05/01/2022)
One
killed, eight injured in Dailekh jeep mishap
(kh 05/1/2022)
Nepal
sees a staggering spike in road crashes : In the
last five years, Nepal’s highways have borne
witness to over 120,000 incidents that have
rendered over 12,000 either dead or severely
injured, by Anushka Nepal (nlt 04/01/2022)
Jajarkot-Jumla
tunnel way: Bids requested for a feasibility
study (rep 04/01/2022)
7
killed in Palpa bus accident, 8 injured (kh
02/01/2022), 11
killed and 16 injured in separate accidents on
Sunday : Seven people died when a bus veered off
the road in Palpa, while four died in separate
accidents in Sarlahi and Siraha, by Madhab
Aryal (kp 03/01/2022)
Mismanagement
and overcharging puncture city’s smart parking
idea : Metropolis spokesperson Ishwor Man Dangol
says Kathmandu plans to ban roadside parking at
New Road and build a multi-storey parking
facility, by Anup Ojha (kp 02/01/2022)
Cars
vs people in Kathmandu : Urban planning in Nepal
must set aside public spaces to which all
citizens have equal access, by Mark Perrin
(nt 31/12/2021)
Transport
Department resumes printing smart driving
licences : Printing had been disrupted since
August due to technical glitches and the
pandemic, by Anup Ojha (kp 29/12/2021)
Death
trap highway : When the lives of the people are
at stake, no one should escape by shifting the
blame onto others (kp 29/12/2021)
Nepal’s
first electric vehicle charging station opens :
The powerhouse in Lumbini generates 154 kilowatts
of electricity, making it the largest solar
charging station in Nepal, officials say, by
Manoj Paudel (kp 29/12/2021)
Disabled
persons, cyclists and environmentalists call for
making Ring Road accessible for all : They say
the design faults witnessed in the
Kalanki-Koteshwar section should be avoided in
the Kalanki-Maharajgunj section, by Anup
Ojha (kp 28/12/2021)
300-metre
tunnel planned along Beni-Jomsom-Korala road :
The project has changed the initial design
involving the widening of the Mahabhir-Timmure
road section, by Ghanashyam Khadka (kp
25/12/2021)
Humla
People Cross Karnali Risking Life (rn
24/12/2021)
Residents
Of Thawang Relieved By Direct Bus Service To
Kathmandu (rn 22/12/2021)
Govt
working on a provision to make helmets
compulsory for pillion riders (kh
22/12/2021)
85
percent upgrading work completed on
Jomsom-Korala section (rep 21/12/2021), Road
Connecting To Chinese Border Korala Being
Blacktopped (photo feature), by Thakur
Prasad Acharya (rep 21/12/2021)
Bailey
Bridge Comes Into Operation In Sunkoshi (rn
18/12/2021)
Applicants
compelled to wait for over a year to appear in
two-wheeler license trials : The nationwide
lockdown imposed to curb coronavirus halted the
vehicle’s trial exam for a long period. That,
coupled with the limited number of trial centers
in the country, has compelled thousands to wait
for the trial for over a year, by Prasun
Sangroula (nlt 17/12/2021)
Siddhartha
highway to be closed during night for 15 days
(kh 14/12/2021)
Traffic
madness : The increasing import of vehicles has
exerted unrelenting pressure on the existing
infrastructure (kp 13/12/2021)
Six
sections of Jomsom-Korala road completed (kh
12/12/2021)
Traffic
police launch instant fine payment system
(ht 10/12/2021)
Death
toll in Baitadi jeep accident climbs to five
(kh 07/12/2021)
Nepalis
aren't ready for electric vehicles : The limited
number of battery charging stations remains one
of the significant issues for making EVs popular,
by Roshee Lamichhane (kp 06/12/2021)
Omicron
scare likely to delay widening of Ring Road’s
Kalanki-Maharajganj section : Nepali officials
have yet to clear the ground for starting the
work. Land dispute in Maharajgunj area remains
unresolved, by Anup Ojha (kp 05/12/2021)
Hundreds
of road projects in limbo due to government
indecision : Most of the projects were included
in past budgets under influence from
politicians. Such projects will be either
cancelled or handed over to subnational
governments, by Prithvi man Shrestha (kp
04/12/2021)
What
ails construction projects in Nepal? Taxpayers
have every right to expect roads and bridges
that do not get washed away with the first rain,
by Rudra Sharma Aryal (kp 03/12/2021)
Beni
Bazaar sees growing road encroachment (kh
01/12/2021)
Budget
for road projects halted by FinMin not to stop,
by Himal Lamsal (rep 01/12/2021)
Govt
to install vehicle tracking system on long-route
passenger vehicles (rep 29/11/2021)
Imports
Of EVs Up By 164% Despite Poor Infrastructure
Facility, by Ajay Chhetri (rn 29/11/2021)
Five
die, 27 injured in Jajarkot bus accident
(nlt 28/11/2021), Jajarkot
bus accident: Identity of five deceased
ascertained : Seriously injured to be sent to
Nepalgunj by helicopter (kh 28/11/2021)
Capital
without bus park for short- and medium-route
vehicles for months : While passengers complain
of delays, bus drivers say they have no place to
rest or use toilet and even drink water in the
lack of a bus park, by Anup Ojha (kp
28/11/2021)
French
firm supplies 1.4 million smart driving license
cards to DoTM (rep 26/11/2021)
After
complaints, police cracking down on overcharging
bus operators : Metropolitan Traffic Police
Division says more than 400 bus operators have
been fined in one month. Consumer rights
activists unconvinced sporadic crackdowns will
solve the problem, by Anup Ojha (kp
23/11/2021)
Death
toll from Baitadi jeep mishap climbs to six
(kh 22/11/2021)
Roads
to hell : Blames will not defer accidents,
by Manohar Shrestha (ht 22/11/2021)
29
injured in Dang bus mishap (kh 21/11/2021)
With
festivals over and pre-pandemic normal
returning, traffic congestion is back : Experts
say upgrading road infrastructure and making
public transport reliable may provide a
long-term solution, by Anup Ojha (kp
21/11/2021)
Multiple
landslides in Karnali region disrupt Mid-Hill
Highway : Constant delays in opening tracks,
maintenance work and regular upgrades have left
the highway in a poor condition, by Krishna
Prasad Gautam (kp 19/11/2021), Look
at that! The sorry state of development means
that minuscule infrastructure projects become
objects of awe (kp 19/11/2021)
Four
including driver killed in Rolpa bus accident
(kh 19/11/2021)
Contract
termination if road construction not complete
within two months (kh 18/11/2021)
Delay
in Mid-Hill Highway construction draws public
wrath (kh 18/11/2021)
Rapti
Highway prone to road accidents : Poor road
condition, coupled with human negligence,
unserviced old vehicles and disregard for
traffic rules, leads to fatal road accidents, by
Biplab Maharjan (kp 17/11/2021)
400,000
apply for driving license test in three weeks
(rep 15/11/2021)
Muglin-Pokhara
road expansion work begins : In the first phase,
trees are being cut down in areas demarcated for
construction in Aanbukhaireni and Bandipur,
by Samjhana Rasaili (kp 14/11/2021)
Bridge
Over Karnali River Ready After Nine Years
(rn 11/11/2021) [In the
picture, it still does not look ready!]
Experts
stress strict monitoring of vehicles and road
conditions to reduce accidents : Police data of
the last five years show a total of 619 people
died in 3,387 road accidents across the country
during Dashain, by Anup Ojha (kp 11/11/2021)
Action
being taken against those overcharging
passengers (kh 10/11/2021)
35
injured in Dhading bus collision (kh
10/11/2021)
12
injured as Biratnagar-bound bus turns turtle
(kh 10/11/2021)
Two
killed in truck-bus collision (kh
10/11/2021)
One
dead, five injured in Helambu road accident
(kh 10/11/2021)
Killer
roads : Such ghastly statistics about road
accidents in Nepal should have made the
authorities sit up a long time ago (ht
09/11/2021)
Five
months on, vehicular movement along
Ranimahal-Ramdi stretch yet to resume : Debris
from several landslides caused by monsoon rains
along the road stretch on the Kaligandaki
Corridor has not been cleared, by Madhav
Aryal (kp 08/11/2021)
Salyan
bus accident update: 10 deceased identified
(kh 07/11/2021), 12
die in Salyan bus accident, by Devendra Basnet
(rep 07/11/2021), Twelve
killed in bus accident in Salyan on Sunday : The
bus en route to Tulsipur in Dang from Salyan
plunged into a river near Kapurkot Rural
Municipality-5, Kharkhola (rep 07/11/2021),
At
least 12 killed in Salyan bus accident : The bus
en route to Tulsipur of Dang from Salyan plunged
into a river near Kapurkot Rural Municipality-5,
by Biplab Maharjan (kp 08/11/2021)
Two
killed, eight injured as passenger bus hits
Deusi revelers (kh 07/11/2021)
Increasing
Road Accidents in Nepal, by Sonika
Lamichhane (kh 06/11/2021)
Traffic
resumes on Karnali corridor road (kh
05/11/2021)
Baitadi
villagers risk life crossing Mahakali river to
reach Indian towns : In the absence of a bridge,
local residents use boats and tyre tubes to
cross the Mahakali river and buy daily
essentials and get medical treatment in India,
by Tripti Shahi (kp 04/11/2021)
10
injured in Dadeldhura bus accident (kh
31/10/2021)
Authorities
indifferent to poor state of Karnali road136
people have been killed and 300 others maimed,
injured in several accidents since the highway
came into operation in 2007, by Krishna
Prtasad Gautam (kp 31/10/2021), Dangerous
highways : Stretches of Karnali Highway have
often been used by politicians to garner support
to get elected (kp 01/11/2021)
Beni-Jomsom
road to remain closed for 10 hours a day from
today (kh 29/10/2021), Parliamentary
team inspects Beni-Jomsom-Korola road (kh
30/10/2021)
Energy
Minister for promotion of electric vehicles
(rep 30/10/2021)
Mudhe-Charikot
road upgradation remains incomplete even after
six years : Work began in 2015 but is nowhere
near completion because of the negligence of the
construction companies, by Kedar Shiwakoti
(kp 28/10/2021)
Electric
microbus imported via Rasuwa checkpoint (kh
28/10/2021)
Not
so smart : The Transport Department has been a
failure when it comes to effective public
service delivery (kp 27/10/2021)
5,000
applications for driving license to be processed
daily (rep 27/10/2021)
4
killed, 50 injured in Panchthar bus accident
(kh 25/10/2021)
Permission
granted to cut around 7,000 trees for upgrading
Mugling-Pokhara road (ht 23/10/2021)
Seeking
affordable mobility : This is a great time to
get people excited about walking and cycling if
we can seize the opportunity, by Shubha
Adhikari (kp 22/10/2021)
Investigation
demanded on damage of access road (kh
22/10/2021)
Kathmandu
Ring Road Improvement Project urges China to
begin phase II work (kh 21/10/2021)
An
Electric Bus Rapid Transit System for Kathmandu
Valley, by Ambika P Adhikari and Keshav
Bhattarai (rep 20/10/2021)
131
roads partially operational (kh 18/10/2021)
Prioritise
Road Safety (rn 18/10/2021)
42
injured in Nawalparasi bus accident (kh
18/10/2021)
30
injured, 10 critically in Nuwakot bus accident
(kh 18/10/2021)
Bagmati
Province govt hikes fares of short-route public
transport (rep 18/10/2021), Hiked
transportation fare comes into effect in Bagmati
: Passengers will now have to pay minimum Rs 18
for using public vehicle (ht 19/10/2021), Passengers
complain of being shortchanged after bus fare
hike : Rs18 is the minimum fare and Rs35 maximum
in Kathmandu Valley as per the new rates
approved by the provincial government, by
Anup Ojha (kp 21/10/2021)
Track
construction begins to link Darchula villages
with headquarters : The project was delayed due
to problem in transporting construction
materials, by Manoj Badu (kp 18/10/2021)
Melamchi-Indrawati
road obstructed (kh 17/10/2021)
Traffic
Police collects cash fine of Rs 3.30 million in
drink-driving penalty in single day of Vijaya
Dashami (rep 17/10/2021)
18
Injured In Micro-Bus Accident, by Kedar
Timilsina (rn 16/10/2021)
Five
Injured In Syangja Jeep Accident (rn
16/10/2021)
Three
killed, six injured in Gulmi jeep fall (kh
15/10/2021)
22
die and 18 get injured in Mugu bus mishap
(kh 12/10/2021), 25
killed, 15 others injured in Mugu bus accident
(rep 12/10/2021), Mugu
accident update: 14 injured rescued to Nepalgunj
on plane and choppers
Death toll feared to rise (kh 12/10/2021), Death
toll climbs to 32 as four more injured airlifted
for treatment pass away, by Ganesh Bishu
(rep 12/10/2021), Puncturing
of tire is cause of Mugu bus accident: Police
(kh 13/10/2021)
Traffic
nightmare : Authorities ignore the hassles faced
by pedestrians instead of seeking a lasting
solution (kp 12/10/2021)
16
injured in Dadeldhura bus accident (kh
12/10/2021)
15
people killed in separate road accidentsThe
accidents took place in Kaski, Syangja and
Achham districts on Sunday and Monday, by
Deepak Pariyar (kp 12/10/2021)
Traffic
police step up drink-driving checks for Dashain
: Metropolitan Traffic Police Division has
booked 800 drivers in the past four days.
Concerns over virus transmission risk from
shared breathalysers. Traffic police
division has set up 132 check posts across
the Valley, by Anup Ojha (kp 12/10/2021)
Four
killed as jeep carrying wedding attendees meets
with accident in Achham (kh 11/10/2021)
CDO
directs authorities concerned to fill potholes
on the road within 24 hours (rep 10/10/2021)
[related to Bhaktapur]
8
seriously injured in jeep accident in Ghandruk
(kh 11/10/2021), Eight
killed in jeep accident in Ghandruk (rep
11/10/2021)
Fare
of public transport in Kathmandu Valley hiked
(kh 07/10/2021)
Second
phase of Ring Road widening project likely to
start from mid-November : Department of Roads
says the Chinese contractor will start the work
after the Chhath festival if the Covid-19
situation improves and things go as planned,
by Anup Ojha (kp 07/10/2021)
Dashain
travellers facing hardships, delays due to bad
roads : Buses are compelled to wait for several
hours to cross bottlenecks caused by poor road
conditions, transport operators say, by Anup
Ojha (kp 06/10/2021)
Rain
damage to roads, bridges estimated at Rs3
billionWith this year witnessing an extended
monsoon, the scale of damage has been bigger,
according to the Department of Roads, by
Prithvi man Shrestha (kp 05/10/2021)
Ride-hailing
apps make taxi drivers and passengers happy :
People can request a taxi to come to their
doorstep and they do not have to bargain over
the fare. These apps have shaken up the
traditional commuting system, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 05/10/2021)
Bus
operators stage protest after police crackdown
against overcharging Some transport operators in
Kathmandu had unilaterally hiked the fares a few
days ago arguing that the fares have not been
increased for a long time, by Anup Ojha (kp
05/10/2021)
Rural
Roads In Bajura Still Out Of Operation (rn
03/10/2021)
Alternative
to Mechi highway to be used in Ilam (kh
03/10/2021)
Making
Nepal’s roads safer : A concerted effort is
required from the government, international
partners and road users, by Hartwig Schäfer
(kp 30/09/2021)
Sanphe-Martadi
road comes into operation (ht 30/09/2021)
Three
including driver missing as Pokhara-bound car
plunges into Trishuli (kh 24/09/2021)
Watch
your step : Neglected open sewers in the city
should be a matter of criminal negligence
(kp 24/09/2021)
all
road projects to be handed over to provincial,
local governments, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 21/09/2021)
Traffic
police devise special plan to curb road
accidents (ht 21/09/2021)
7-km
new track road constructed (rep
20/09/2021)
Five
years on, Ramghat bridge construction remains
incomplete : Local residents face difficulties
transporting daily essentials in the absence of
a bridge, by Chandani Kathayat (kp
19/09/2021)
New
application for driver’s license after Dashain
only (kh 19/09/2021)
18
injured in Kapilvastu road accident (kh
18/09/2021)
our
years on, construction of bridge in limbo
(kh 16/09/2021)
Three
killed in jeep accident (kh 16/09/2021)
Road
accident injures nine in Birendranagar (kh
15/09/2021)
Three
dead as passenger bus and truck collide head-on
in Gaidakot : As many as 27 people including the
drivers of both the vehicles have sustained
injuries in the accident, said police (kp
14/09/2021)
Beni-Darbang
road construction resumes after five months
(kh 13/09/2021)
One
killed, nine injured in Okhaldhunga jeep
accident (kh 12/09/2021)
Siddhartha
Highway riddled with potholes : Haphazard
construction of roads, buildings and shops
on the roadside using heavy machinery has
damaged the road in several places.
Federal government does not take
initiatives to repair the highway., by
Pratiksha Kafle (kp 11/09/2021)
Construction
Of Bridge Delayed By Six Years, by Sanjay
Kumar Mishra (rn 11/09/2021)
Butwal-Narayanghat
road widening work moving at snail’s pace : Only
around eight percent work of the road expansion
project has been completed in three years and
the contractor is lobbying for extension of
project deadline, by Narayan Sharma (kp
11/09/2021)
2,000
pandemic-hit road and bridge projects getting
six-month extension, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 10/09/2021)
Many
road projects announced by Oli likely to lose
funding : Whether the 165 road projects will get
the state funds will depend on the new budget
replacement bill, road officials say, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 09/09/2021)
Growing
Digital Division in Nepali Taxi Industry, by
Shradha Khadka (rep 06/09/2021)
1
killed, 10 injured in Sankhuwasabha truck mishap
(kh 05/09/2021)
Demand
for a bridge over Dugrikhola (kh 05/09/2021)
New
route explore to Eklesal (kh 05/09/2021)
Postponed
driving license exam resumes from today (rep
05/09/2021), Kathmandu
Valley resumes driving licence tests for pending
applicantsOver 700,000 applications are in the
backlog. Under new rules, examinees will not be
failed for minor mistakes, by Anup Ojha (kp
06/09/2021)
3
killed in winger-autorickshaw collision in
Kailali (kh 04/09/2021)
Energy
Minister Bhusal says plans are afoot to run
e-vehicles in all municipalities (kh
03/09/2021)
Two-way
traffic resumes in Gaidnakot-based highway
(kh 02/09/2021)
Mobility
woes in Kathmandu Valley, by Sanjeev Nepal
(kh 01/09/2021)
Melamchi-Helambu
road construction remains uncertain (kh
30/08/2021)
20
Injured, Four Critically, In Dhading Truck
Accident (rn 30/08/2021)
Liwang-Jaljala
road project left incomplete, by Kashiram
Dangi (kp 29/08/2021)
Haphazard
construction of roads increases risk (ht
27/08/2021)
The
Araniko Highway conundrum : Is maintaining the
Kodari crossing between Nepal and China as an
international highway a lost cause?, by Sam
Cowan (rec 26/08/2021)
Two
Missing, 18 Injured In Sindhupalchowk Bus
Accident (rn 25/08/2021), 2
die, 39 get injured in Sindhupalchowk bus mishap
(kh 25/08/2021)
Road
accidents : The govt needs to improve road
engineering and regulate the traffic pressure to
curb the high number of road accidents (ht
24/08/2021)
lacktopped
road damaged before completion (rep
22/08/2021)
Drink-driving
cases, road accidents decline after night-time
ban on vehicles, by Anup Ojha (kp
21/08/2021)
New
track connecting Chame with Upper Manang
under-construction (kh 21/08/2021)
Driver
killed, eight passengers injured in bus accident
(kh 19/08/2021)
Road
accidents up by threefold (kh 17/08/2021)
Cantilever
bridge left unused after floods swept away
approach way : The trail should be repaired to
ease transportation of food and daily
essentials, locals say, by Hariram Uprety
(kp 16/08/2021)
Build
bridges : The government should invest in
bridges rather than useless view towers (kp
16/08/2021)
One
million applicants affected as driving licence
tests yet to resume Department of Transport
Management says it can’t conduct the tests
without receiving a nod from Covid-19
Crisis Management Centre, by Anup Ojha (kp
16/08/2021)
Limi
folk risk life to cross Karnali river in absence
of bridge, by Chhapal Lama (kp 15/08/2021)
Bridge
constructions in Tanahun miss deadline (kh
15/08/2021)
Kodari
Highway In Sorry State, by Chitra Mijar (rn
15/08/2021)
Computerized
system installed at Gongabu bus park to ease
services (rep 15/08/2021), Gongabu
bus park aims to start online ticketing by
Dashain : All 32 counters inside the bus park
have already started issuing tickets to 65
districts from a computerised system, by Anup
Ojha (kp 17/08/2021)
Some
succour for pedestrians, but not enough : Valley
authorities are working to improve footpaths.
More needed, as walking in the capital city is a
nightmare, and the disabled and the elderly face
greater problems, by Anup Ojha (kp
13/08/2021)
Department
of Roads gives details of over 150 sick projects
to anti-graft body, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 09/08/2021)
Beni-Jomsom
road open after six days (kh 08/08/2021)
Chinese
contractor’s truant attitude and rains worsening
Butwal-Narayanghat road, by Narayan Pangeni
(kh 08/08/2021)
Twenty-six
lives lost in risky river crossings in Darchula
in last 27 years (ht) 04/08/2021)
Construction
of nine feeder roads under Postal Highway over
(ht 26/07/021)
Bajura
locals facing road obstruction for years (ht
25/07/2021)
Kathmandu
administration allows long-distance vehicles to
operate (kh 23/07/2021)
Power
poles and land dispute delay Ring Road widening
work : The Chinese contractor has said it cannot
start work on Kalanki-Maharajgunj section until
the electricity poles are removed. The work is
already delayed by a year, by Anup Ojha (kp
22/07/2021)
Decrepit
suspension bridge over Mahakali River creates
difficulties to locals (kh 22/07/2021)
Chitwan
sees a nearly two-fold rise in road accidents
(kh 21/07/2021)
Absence
of bridges makes life difficult for Karnali folk
: Several remote villages are cut off from other
parts of the province during the monsoon, local
residents say, by Hari Gautam (kp
21/07/2021)
Bridge
failures in Nepal : Diagnosis and solutions,
by Pratyush Jha and Rakesh Kumar Chaudhary (ht
20/07/2021)
As
long-route buses are garaged, small vehicles are
fleecing passengers : Some unscrupulous vehicle
operators are misusing travel passes meant for
emergencies and charging passengers up to three
times the normal fare, by Anup Ojha (kp
20/07/2021)
Roadway
completely damaged as local government remains
unaware (rep 18/07/2021)
Siwai
bridge further damaged by floods (rep
18/07/2021)
City
removes bus park from Khula Manch with no
alternative venue for it, by Anup Ojha (kp
16/07/2021)
Nepal
Army hands over Khulalu-Salisalla road (kh
16/07/2021)
Govt
to extend prohibitory order by operating
long-route vehicles : Valley CDOs meeting
at 1 pm (kh 15/07/2021)
Overland
commerce suffers due to damaged highway : The
road linking Kathmandu with the Tatopani border
was damaged at two points—Kodari Bazaar and
Liping—about a month ago, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 14/07/2021)
Kodari
section of Araniko Highway resumes (kh
14/07/2021)
Parbat-Baglung
roadway obstructed for six days (kh
13/07/2021)
Expansion
likely reason for more landslides on
Muglin-Narayangadh road, experts say : It was
expanded three years ago and measures to avert
landslides may not have been taken. As the
section is an artery of the economy, losses
total hundreds of millions, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal and Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 10/07/2021)
ese
contractor company’s undue sluggishness further
deteriorating national highway, by Narayan
Pangeni (kh 09/07/2021)
Prohibitory
order relaxed from today; no odd-even rule for
vehicles (rep 06/07/2021)
Landslides
obstruct Mid-Hill Highway’s Baglung road section
(kh 06/07/2021)
Landslide
blocks Narayangadh-Muglin yet again (kh
05/07/2021)
Prithvi
Highway caves in, only one-way traffic allowed
(kh 04/07/2021)
Blacktopped
roads in Baglung face sustainability issues
(kh 04/07/2021)
Government
allocates equal funds for constituency-based
road projects : Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli
laid the foundation for 165 road projects in his
inauguration and foundation-laying spree in
April, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
04/07/2021)
One-way
traffic resumes in BP Highway (kh
04/07/2021)
Construction
of road after two decades (kh 04/07/2021)
Two
killed, 10 injured in Baitadi jeep accident
(kh 04/07/2021)
Federal
government continues handling local roads and
bridge projects : Road officials say local
governments still don’t have capacity to
implement such projects, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 02/07/2021) [This is a consequence of the fact that the
Oli government, as the first government elected
under the new constitution, refuses to this day
to really implement federalism!]
Transport
entrepreneurs warn of operating long-distance
transport services from Friday despite ongoing
ban (rep 01/07/2021)
Landslides
disrupt Narayangadh-Muglin road section (kh
01/07/2021)
Landslides
obstruct Prithvi Highway (kh 30/06/2021)
Embossed
number plates mandatory from mid-July (kh
29/06/2021)
86
bridges built along Mid-Hill Highway (kh
29/06/2021)
Public
vehicles to operate on odd-even rule from
Tuesday (kh 28/06/2021)
Flood
damages bridge over Karnali River disrupting
transportation (kh 27/06/2021)
Transport
entrepreneurs demand removal of the ban on
public vehicles (rep 24/06/2021)
13
roads disrupted due to landslide and flood
(kh 24/06/2021)
How
urban design and planning failed cycling in
Kathmandu, by Prashanta Khanal (rec
22/06/2021)
Nepal
to switch to light electric vehicles by 2031 as
fossil fuel import balloons : The government
wants the world’s 10 electric vehicle
manufacturing companies to set up plants in
Nepal. There is no reason for them to come,
industry insiders say, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 21/06/2021)
Eight
people died in Valley road accidents during
lockdown : Kathmandu Valley has recorded 407
road accidents in the month and a half since the
imposition of prohibitory orders, by Anup
Ojha (kp 16/06/2021)
Nepal’s
road disrupted with explosives used in
Mansarobar road construction (kh 10/06/2021)
The
rise and fall of the Kathmandu Valley’s cycling
culture, by Prashanta Khanal (rec
07/06/2021)
Motorable
bridge connects the last village of Helambu with
rest of the world, by Kunga Hyolmo (rep
07/06/2021)
Govt
allocates 6.39 billion to Hulaki Highway (kh
29/05/2021)
Govt
allocates 163 billion to road and transportation
sector, 100 electric buses to be operated in
Kathmandu (kh 29/05/2021)
Four
killed, 48 injured in Nawalparasi bus accident
(kh 19/05/2021)
Flood,
landslide disrupt Sanfe-Martadi road (ht
08/05/2021)
Tikuliya
bridge still in limbo (ht 30/04/2021)
Motorcycle
city : Over a million motorcycles can be found
on the congested roads of the Kathmandu Valley,
by Achyut Wagle (kp 27/04/2021)
NA
pushes fast-track project ahead by disregarding
parliamentary panel’s directive : PAC instructs
Ministry of Defense to stop procurement process
and re-initiate a transparent one but the
Ministry mysteriously keeps mum, by Gajendra
Basnet (kh 26/04/2021)
Ministry
quizzed over delay in scrapping contractor
selection : Citing violation of Public
Procurement Act, committee had ordered scrapping
of the bidding process for construction of
tunnels and bridges along the 72.5km expressway,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 25/04/2021)
One
dead, 22 injured in bus accident in Khotang
(rep 25/04/2021)
Bhimphedi-Kulekhani-Sisneri
Roadway closed (rep 23/04/2021)
Siddhartha
Highway in dilapidated state, by Madhav
Aryal (kp 23/04/2021)
Madi
Locals Eagerly Await Completion Of Mid Hill
Highway (rn 18/04/2021)
Five
killed, 37 others injured in bus-truck collision
in Kohalpur, by Arjun Oli (kp 17/04/2021)
Blacktop
peels within a day in Katari-Maruwa road section
(ht 16/04/2021)
Sanfe-Martadi
road stretch faces landslip risk (ht
16/04/2021)
Dharan-Chatara-Sindhuli-Hetauda
road nears completion, by Pratap Bista (kp
15/04/2021)
Five
dead, 12 injured in a road accident in Pyuthan
(rep 14/04/2021)
Five
killed and 20 injured in tractor accident in
Chitwan : The tractor carrying construction
workers fell off a cliff in Bhandara on Sunday
evening, Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 12/04/2021)
Government
finalises contracts to widen Prithvi Highway :
Traffic on one of busiest highways in the
country is expected to ease once the project is
completed, officials say, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 11/04/2021)
Pedestrians
Reluctant To Use Overhead Bridges In Rupandehi :
Jaywalking still a big problem, by Laxman
Paudel (rn 09/04/2021)
Nepal’s
other pandemic: road fatalities : More people
die on Nepal's highways every year than in all
natural disasters combined, by Anita Bhetwal
(nt 09/04/2021)
Chamari-Thori
road project draws ire ; Local residents have
expressed dissatisfaction over the contractor’s
handing over of the road in an incomplete state,
by Shankar Acharya (kp 06/04/2021)
Oli
rushes to inaugurate 165 road projects without
their preparatory works complete : Observers
term prime minister’s move a populist ploy aimed
at securing his political position, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 04/04/2021)
Chitwan
sees rise in two-wheeler accidents : Out of 493
vehicles involved in road accidents this fiscal
year, 244 were two-wheelers, according to the
data of the District Traffic Office in
Chitwan (kü 03/04/2021)
Complete
the highway : The Postal Highway can bring about
socio-economic changes in the Tarai region
should it complete in time (ht 02/04/2021)
Kathmandu-Tarai
expressway faces further delay as House
committee orders scrapping of bidding process :
With only one bidder selected in the
pre-qualification process to build two tunnels
and a number of bridges, the awarding of
the contract to the lowest bidder is not
possible, by Binod Ghimire (kp 02/04/2021)
Road
office starts disabled-friendly pavement project
in Kathmandu, by Anup Ojha (kp 02/04/2021)
Roads
built in Tarai region handed over to public
(ht 01/04/2021)
Motorable
road reaches remote Baglung villages : The road
link comes as huge relief especially for
pregnant women and the elderly in times of
emergencies, villagers say, by Prakash Baral
(kp 28/03/2021)
Beni-Jomsom
Road To Be Closed For Four Days (rn
23/03/2021)
One
killed, 22 others injured in school bus accident
in Dang (rep 23/03/2021)
Ring
Road expansion works face delays : Department of
Roads says project will start soon after it
receives the design from the Chinese company,
by Anup Ojha (kp 21/03/2021)
Embossed
number plate mandatory on all vehicles, by
Sabina Karki (kh 21/03/2021)
Butwal-Narayanghat
road expansion project stares at delay : Work to
expand the two-lane road to six lanes began two
years ago, but only a fraction has been
completed, by Narayan Sharma (kp 20/03/2021)
Postal
Highway Construction Moving At Snail’s Pace,
by Santosh Subedi (rn 20/03/2021)
Connecting
Nepal, India and China, by Devchandra Bhatta
(ae 19/03/2021)
Ten
years on, Kamala bridge yet to come into
operation : Roads linked to the bridge have been
washed away by floodwaters, delaying the opening
of the bridge, by Santosh Singh (kp
19/03/2021)
Majority
of e-rickshaw drivers without licence in Dharan
: The number of e-rickshaws operating in the
city areas of Sunsari has seen an
exponential growth in the past five years,
by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 18/0372021)
Valley
folk embrace ride-hailing services for ease of
use : Nearly 2.5 million people have downloaded
the app to request a ride, according to data
compiled by the Post, by Krishana Prasain
(kp 17/03/2021)
Applicants
now have to wait for months to even sit for
driving exam : Members of public fear catching
Covid-19 on buses, but it’s no excuse to drive
without licence, officials say, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 16/03/2021)
Only
cycle lanes are not enough, stakeholders say :
They want Department of Roads to make the
Valley’s roads more cycle-friendly but it is
reluctant to do so, by Anup Ojha (kp
16/0372021)
Three
dead, 10 others injured in road accident
(rep 13/03/2021)
Kathmandu-Terai-Madhesh
Expressway : Fast progress (sp 12/03/2021)
Kalikot
Microbus Accident Update: Two Dead, 16 Injured
(rn 11/03/2021)
Department
of Roads plans to construct flyover at Gwarko :
Traffic engineers say flyovers alone won’t
reduce accidents, by Anup Ojha (kp
09/03/2021), Flyover
to nowhere : The Department of Roads’ plan to
construct a ‘flyover’ at Gwarko is myopic
((kp 10/03/2021)
Karnali
Corridor bringing prosperity in the region :
Economic activities have increased in various
districts of Karnali Province with the
construction of the corridor, by Tularam
Pandey and Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 07/03/2021)
Memories
of house demolition haunt us every day, Balaju
Bypass residents say : Eviction of 39 families
has left deep mental scars on members of Newa
community, by Anup Ojha (kp 06/03/2021) [Court decisions do not apply
to Oli and his henchmen!]
Road
track from Kalikot to Humla opens after seven
years : The construction work has now reached
its final stage with only a kilometre of the
track to be opened, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
28/02/2021)
Road
upgradation continues amidst tight security
(ht 28/02/2021) [What
does the Oli government care about Supreme Court
directives!]
32
bridges to be constructed along road section
connecting Rasuwagadhi within a year and a half,
by Himnath Devkota (rep 27/02/2021)
Province
1 traffic police enforce ‘no-horn’ rule with
love, by Kishor Budhathoki (ae 26/02/2021)
Our
roads to disaster : It would of course be too
much to expect a 50m stretch of road to be
expanded in a day, by Dinkar Nepal (ae
26/02/2021)
Insufficient
budget mars upgradation of Karnali Highway
(kh 23/02/2021)
Two
suspension bridges being constructed daily
(kh 23/02/2021)
Road
project in Taplejung halted for want of
explosives, by Ananda Gautam (kp 21/02/2021)
Martadi-Kolti
road section left in limbo in Bajura (ht
22/02/2021)
Upgradation
work of Nagma-Gamgadhi road halted due to funds
crunch : Poor road conditions have made it
difficult to transport daily essentials from
Gamgadhi, the district headquarters, to remote
areas of Chhayanath Rara Municipality, by
Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 20/02/2021)
Govt
expedites preparations to introduce embossed
number plates in all vehicles by mid-May
(rep 18/02/2021)
Lalitpur
on its way to becoming cycle-friendly city but
Kathmandu lags behind : A 22 km-long cycleway is
being built in Lalitpur in the second phase but
Kathmandu has so far failed to carry out its
plan to build cycle lanes, by Anup Ojha (kp
15/02/2021)
Mid-hill
highway brings eastern hilly districts closer to
Kathmandu: NPC Vice-chair Prof Dr Kandel (kh
11/02/2021)
Applications
for new driving license exceed half a million
(rep 08/02/2021)
Darchula
residents demand resumption of tuin service,
by Manoj Badu (kp 01/02/2021)
Eight
months on, work stalled at Darchula-Tinkar road
: Sunsera-Mal section of the road was obstructed
by landslides in June last year, by Manoj
Badu (kp 29/01/2021)
Officials
yet to implement safety suggestions for
Kalanki-Koteshwor road : Two years after the
safety audit report was submitted, officials are
still not implementing the recommendations
fully. Pedestrians and other road users still
find themselves in danger, by Anup Ojha (kp
29/01/2021)
As
life seems to return to normal in Capital,
traffic jams are common again : Traffic
authority mobilises volunteers to manage cars
and pedestrians, but residents not
convinced it will be of help, by Anup Ojha
(kp 28/01/2021)
Local
residents concerned about shoddy work on
Jayaprithvi Highway, by Basanta Pratap Singh
(kp 27/01/2021)
Installation
of suspension bridges in Gandaki Province
delayed as pandemic leads to shortage of cables
: Works on 23 suspension bridges in various
districts of the province have been halted due
to the shortage, by Pratiksha Kafle (kp
18/01/2021)
Easier
driver’s licence tests go against road safety,
officials say : The move is aimed at easing the
pressure of service seekers and discouraging
corrupt practices, transport department
director-general argues, by Anup Ojha
(14/01/2021)
Haphazard
road construction posing threat to trekking
routes (ht 14/01/2021)
Traffic
jams on Koteshwor-Jadibuti road getting worse :
Officials say the airport authority has not been
cooperating fully to allow road widening work on
its land due to security concerns., by Anup
Ojha (kp 12/01/2021)
Shortest
Kathmandu-Hetauda Road Construction Gathers Pace
(rn 07/01/2021)
Upgradation
of Syafru-Rasuwagadhi road section to begin from
April, by Himnath Devkota (rep 07/01/2021)
Kathmandu’s
defunct street lamps raise safety concerns,
by Anup Ojha (kp 06/01/2021)
Work
on bridges under way along Koshi Corridor
(ht 06/01/2021)
Kathmandu
traffic office starts online classes for rule
violators : Every day, around 200 people who are
caught flouting traffic rules take online
classes conducted by the division office, by
Anup Ojha (kp 04/01/2021)
Construction
of Binayak-Thantikhand road under Mid Hill
Highway project delayed : Works on the
16-kilometre road section have been delayed due
to a lack of raw materials and skilled human
resources, according to the employees of the
road project, by Menuka Dhungana (kp
02/01/2021)
Butwal-Narayanghat
road expansion on hold due to workers’ strike :
Protesting workers want minimum wage for their
labour. Project contractor says the
workers did not report to work despite the
agreement reached on December 22, by Narayan
Sharma (kp 01/01/2021)
Golanjor
residents protest poor upgradation work along BP
Highway : The protesters say they would let
construction work resume after the road project
changed the work estimate and design of the road.,
by Raj Kumar Karki (kp 29/12/2020)
With
the opening of night time businesses, traffic
police crack down on drink driving : The
division office in the past week has booked over
400 people for driving under the influence of
alcohol but virologists say using breathalysers
is too risky, by Anup Ojha (kp 24/12/2020)
Officials
undecided on resumption of driving licence tests
: Department of Transport passing buck without
giving information, cheating the public,
provincial authorities say, by Anupo Ojha
(kp 24/12/2020)
Kanchanpur
road projects are running behind schedule :
Project contractors cite funds crunch as reason
for delays while the stakeholders point to the
contractors’ negligence, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 23/12/2020)
Upgradation
of Syafru-Rasuwagadhi road section sees
inordinate delay, by Himnath Devkota (rep
21/12/2020)
Odd-even
rule in Kathmandu Valley lifted (kh
17/12/2020), Odd-even
rules on Valley traffic lifted, by Anup Ojha
(kp 18/12/2020), Odd-even
rule lifted, Valley braces for traffic snarls :
But newly installed traffic lights will provide
respite to people using the road, traffic
officials say, by Anup Ojha (kp 19/12/2020)
Mid-Hill
Highway: Jajarkot section yet to be blacktopped
(kh 15/12/2020)
Humla
linked to national road network (ht
14/12/2020)
Three
killed, seven injured as truck hits seven
vehicles (ht 13/12/2020)
High
power lights to be installed in over 50
intersections in Kathmandu (kh 13/12/20209
Mahakali
bridge work hits snag due to lack of
construction materials : To keep the Mahakali
river on course, around 5.5 km-long embankment
needs to be constructed for which large rocks
are needed, project officials say, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 11/12/2020)
One
dead, one injured as a speeding car turns turtle
in Bhaktapur, by Krishna Kisi (rep
06/12/2020)
Four
dead, four injured in jeep accident in Doti,
by Arun Bam (rep 06/12/2020)
Lack
of budget management affects road construction
(ht 04/12/2020)
Construction
of a bridge over Arun river delayed by a decade
: The foundation stone of the bridge was laid 10
years ago but work remains incomplete, by
Alisha Shrestha (kp 02/12/2020)
Swoyambhu
stakeholders against Ring Road expansion (kp
30/11/2020)
Black-Topping
Works On Kaski Section Of Mid-Hills Highway
Started (ht 30/11/2020)
Track
from Byas to Khalanga yet to be built despite
government assurancesThe federal, provincial and
local governments claim to have resumed an old
horse track on the Nepal side this year but
local residents say otherwise, by Manoj Badu
(kp28/11/2020)
Six
killed in jeep accident in Gulmi (kh
27/11/2020)
Gaighat-Diktel
road project fails to complete even after over
two decades : The road project is still
incomplete due to the negligence of construction
companies and the government’s failure to
monitor them, people in Khotang say; The road
project was initiated by the Man Mohan
Adhikari government in 1994, by Dilliram
Khatiwada (kp 27/11/2020)
Is
the odd-even system in Kathmandu working?
Depends on who you ask, by Sunny Mahat (ae
27/11/2020)
Asian
Highway now connected with Nepal, by Radha
Khanal (ae 27/11/2020)
Foundation
stone laid for three bridges (ht 27/11/2020)
Road
accidents continue to take toll on lives in
Kathmandu valley (ht 26/11/2020), Drive
safe : Fewer vehicles on the roads do not
necessarily translate into fewer accidents and
casualties as was shown during the lockdown
(ht 27/11/2020)
Construction
Pace Of Kathmandu-Tarai Fast Track Accelerated
With Arrival Of International Consultant, by
Ishwor Chandra Jha (rn 25/11/2020), Kathmandu-Terai
Fast Track project achieves only 11 percent
progress (rep 25/11/2020)
Thousands
deprived of driving licence : Department of
Transport passes the buck on ministry to resume
issuing licences, by Anup Ojha (kp
24/11/2020)
Bridge
construction over Triyuga in limbo (ht
24/11/2020)
Five
die, six injured in Baitadi jeep accident
(rep 24/11/20209
Road
to Everest: Tourists can breakfast in Kathmandu
and drive to Khumbu for dinner: With a new
bridge, Khumbu region has become accessible by
land, an alternative to flying to the precarious
Lukla airport, by Sangam Prasain (kp
23/11/2020)
Traffic
police install ‘stop, look, go’ signs in city to
prevent accidents : Officials say 35 percent
accidents happen on link roads., by Anup
Ojha (kp 22/11/2020)
Construction
of Tinau-Danab corridor road begins in Rupandehi
: The corridor will be extended in future to
reach Nepal-India border through Marchawar,
by Amrita Anmol (kp 21/11/2020)
33
years on, Sahajpur-Bogtan road still incomplete
(ht 20/11/2020)
Nine
people killed, 34 others injured in Baitadi bus
accident : The bus en route to Mahendranagar
with 43 passengers on board fell nearly 600
metres down the road at Khodpe in Patan
Municipality, by Tripti Shahi, Mohan
Budhaair and D.R. Pant (kp 14/11/2020)
Movement
on multi-span bridge over Mahakali river closed
(kh 13/11/2020)
Nine
dead, 34 hurt as bus plunges 500m in Baitadi,
by Tekendra Deuba (ht 13/11/2020)
Lalitpur
has cycle lanes. But do they work?, by Sunny
Mahat (ae 13/11/2020)
Four
Killed In A Road Accident, Locals Block Lamahi-
Bhalubang Road, by Diwakar Pokharel (rn
11/11/2020)
Government
issues public transport development board
formation order (ht 08/11/2020)
At
least 10 killed in separate accidents on
Saturday (rep 08/11/2020)
Minister
Bhattarai stresses on completing Olangchunggola
roadway, Tamor corridor (kh 08/11/2020)
Nepal
building a highway to Everest : New road linking
Lukla to rest of the country will transform
region, not all of it for the better, by
Surendra Phuyal (nt 06/11/2020)
Bhajani
locals suffer in lack of bridge over Kandra
River, by Arjun Shah (kp 05/11/2020)
Five
killed in separate incidents (rep
02/11/2020)
Blacktopped
road in Gorkha peels off in just one day of its
construction, by Narhari Sapkota (rep
02/11/2020)
Public
vehicles told to display fare (ht
01/11/2020)
Washing
vehicle to be made mandatory at entry points to
Kathmandu (kh 01/11/2020) [Wouldn't it make more sense
to wash the vehicles when they leave the valley,
when the KTM valley is supposed to be the
absolute hotspot?]
Narayangadh-Butwal
Section Of East-West Highway In Awful State,
by Modnath Dhakal (rn 01/11/2020)
Highly
prioritised road projects make poor progress :
Many national pride projects are faltering
mainly due to lack of resources and land
acquisition dispute, officials say, by
Prithvi man Shrestha (kp 29/10/2020)
Mid-Hill
Highway struggling for timely completion due to
COVID-19 crisis (kh 20/10/2020)
Poor
visibility on dusty Butwal to Narayanghat road
raises accident risk : Incomplete road expansion
project has made the road section prone to
accidents, by Narayan Sharma (kp 18/10/2020)
Passengers
leaving Valley overcharged even after fare hike
reversed : There are not enough passengers to
cover operation costs and fuel expenses, long
haul bus operators say, by Anup Ojha (kp
18/10/2020)
Five
Killed In Bhadaure Bhir Road Accident In
Okhaldhunga (rn 18/10/2020)
Monsoon-battered
Siddhartha Highway causes hours long jam : Road
office says it does not have the funds to repair
the highway this year, by Madhab Aryal (kp
16/10/2020)
Government
decision to relax protocols on public buses
draws criticism : Activists, doctors and local
authorities say the move will only increase the
risk of transmission of Covid-19 among the
public, by Anup Ojha (kp 14/10/2020)
Humla
getting connected to road network (kh
14/10/2020)
Traffic
resumes on Besisahar-Chame road after Bailey
bridge built, by Aash Gurung (kp
13/10/2020)
CM
Rai lays foundation of bridge over Dudhkoshi
river (kh 13/10/2020)
Revoking
its earlier decision, govt allows public
vehicles to carry passengers full of their
capacity (rep 13/10/2020)
Second
phase of Kathmandu Ring Road expansion remains
uncertain : Though the Ministry of Physical
Infrastructure has directed concerned
authorities to clear the 8.2 km road
within three months, officials say it is not
easy to do so, by Anup Ojha (kp 13/10/2020)
Bridge
construction in limbo for four years in
Panchkhal (ht 12/10/2020)
Traffic
police step up checks to discourage drink
driving as festive season nears, by Anup
Ojha (kp 10/10/2020)
Traffic
police and transport department to set up 11
help desks this week : Focus of health
desk will be on checking compliance to the
health protocol and monitoring the bus fares;
Fewer than 700,000 people are expected to leave
the Valley for the Dashain festival this
year, by Anup Ojha (kp 08/10/2020)
Bridge
over Trishuli River at high risk (ht
08/10/2020)
Two
dead, two injured in Siddhicharan Highway
accident, by Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep
08/10/2020)
Govt
issues public transport operation guideline
(ht 07/10/2020)
Five
killed in Jajarkot jeep accident (kh
07/10/2020), Six
dead, one hurt, one missing as jeep plunges 200m
into river in Jajrkot (ht 08/10/2020)
Public
vehicles flout health safety measures (kh
05/10/2020)
Department
to end Valley road-widening project : Some of
remaining major expansion works will likely be
carried out by division road office within this
fiscal year, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
03/10/2020)
Panchthar
road starts falling apart before completion
(ht 01/10/2020)
Budget
duplication and irregularities in road projects
go unchecked in Dailekh districtLocals have
raised questions about the poor monitoring and
evaluation of the development projects by
the local authorities, by Jyotee Katuwal (kp
30/09/2020)
Odd-even
rule on road traffic reinforced in Valley as
cases surge : According to the Metropolitan
Traffic Division, over 1,595 traffic rule
violators have been booked, as of Tuesday
evening, by Anup Ojha (kp 30/09/2020)
Construction
of bridges in Khotang left incomplete :
Development activities have not gained momentum
in the district due to delay in the bridges’
construction, by Dambar Singh Rai (kp
28/09/2020)
Local
governments must take its advice on roads, Roads
Department says : Unnecessary and haphazard
feeder roads destroy natural drainage, and
trigger landslides, experts say, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 27/09/2020), Road
to destruction : We cannot hand over our fragile
hills and mountains to contractors and bulldozer
drivers (kp 28/09/2020)
Weeks
to go for Dashain, but bus operators yet to
start pre-booking tickets : Around two million
people left the Valley during the festival last
year, this year the number is expected to drop
to less than 700,000, according to Metropolitan
Traffic Police Division, by Anup Ojha (kp
27/09/2020)
A
tale of two transports : Airline operators
cheer, public vehicle entrepreneurs glum as
services resume, by Arpana Ale Magar (ht
26/09/2020)
Locals
in Jajarkot still using tuin to cross river for
years (rep 25/09/2020)
Driver’s
licence tests to resume only after Tihar, by
Anup Ojha (kp 23/09/2020)
Sajha
to operate long-distance buses from Wednesday
(rep 22/09/2020)
Bahrabise-Tatopani
road in Sindhupalchok in sorry state, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 20/09/2020)
Fuel
tanker plunges into Trishuli River, driver and
helper remain unscathed (rep 20/09/2020)
Unnecessary
road projects in rural areas of Baglung
arecausing floods and landslides : The
Infrastructure Development Office opened two new
tracks in the last month of the last
fiscal year to avoid budget freeze, say local
residents, by Prakash Baral (kp 19/09/2020)
Movement
along Beni-Jomsom road disrupted due to multiple
landslides : Hundreds of vehicles carrying
vegetables from Mustang have been stuck along
the road section, by Ghanshyam Khadka (kp
18/09/2020)
Coronavirus
pandemic offers hope for cycling future : More
bicycles on the streets will mean the pressure
on the government to invest on cycling-friendly
infrastructure including repairing potholes will
grow, by Anup Ojha (kp 14/09/2020), Cycling
to change : The pandemic has given us an
opportunity to reimagine urban planning and
design (kp 15/09/2020)
Transport
entrepreneurs announce to resume long-distance
passenger vehicle service from Sept 17 (rep
10/09/2020)
Bridges
along Parbat section of the Mid-Hill Highway in
desperate need of repair : The lack of repair
and maintenance over the years has left all five
bridges in Parbat riddled with potholes, by
Agandhar Tiwari (kp 09/09/2020), Bridges
to hell : As defaulting contractors remain
scot-free, bridges continue to pose a threat to
life and property (kp 10/09/2020)
36
road projects under construction in Karnali
state (kh 09/09/2020)
Bridge
construction over Bansbittaghat river left
incomplete for a decade : In absence of a
bridge, villagers in Siraha and Dhanusha rely on
boats to cross the river, by Bharat
Jarghamagar (kp 07/09/2020)
Dummies
make Valley road users aware of proposed hike in
fines : The Metropolitan Traffic Division Office
has already talked to the Department of
Transport Management to raise the fines,
officials say, by Anup Ojha (kp 02/09/2020)
Traffic
lights installed and repaired at major junctions
of Kathmandu Valley, by Anup Ojha (kp
20/08/2020)
Bike
sellers struggle to fulfil swelling demand amid
the Covid-19 pandemic: Valley residents are
rediscovering the good old bicycle as the virus
limits their transportation options (kp
13/08/2020)
Six
people killed, many injured in separate road
accidents: A bus en route to Achham carrying
returnees from India fell off the road in Doti,
killing three persons and injuring 33 others,
by Madhav Aryal and Mohan Shahi (kp 13/08/2020)
Road
Mishap In Doti: Three Dead, 32 Injured (rn
12/08/2020)
Three
killed, one injured in a car accident in
Rupandehi, by Rekha Bhusal (rep 08/08/2020)
Vehicles
start plying long-haul routes in Kaski, charge
exorbitant fares: Although long-distance travel
remains banned, both private and public vehicles
are moving in and out of Pokhara with passengers,
by Deepak Pariyar (kp 07/08/2020)
With
many traffic officers in quarantine, motorists
flout odd-even rule: More than 300 officers have
been in placed in quarantine after Covid-19
infection was detected in two traffic offices in
Kathmandu, by Anup Ojha (kp 07/08/2020)
Tempo
drivers are driven to despair as not many are
using these three-wheelers over Covid-19 fears:
Valley’s ubiquitous safa tempos are back on the
streets after the lockdown was lifted but safety
protocols require them to have just four
passengers and drivers are not even getting
those, by Anup Ojha (kp 01/08/2020)
Poor
roads continue to trouble Kathmandu denizens;
authorities say they could not work because of
lockdown: The Department of Roads had announced
to upgrade the Valley’s roads during the
lockdown, but its work was focused mostly on the
so-called VIP areas, by Anup Ojha (kp
01/08/2020)
Lalitpur
to install 669 smart electric street lamps on
three routes: It is a first in the country but
could be expanded in other parts of the country
depending on interest, says Kul Man Ghising of
NEA, by Anup Ojha (kp 29/07/2020)
Multiple
landslides obstruct several sections of
Siddhartha Highway: Some of the road sections
blocked by landslide debris had also suffered
the same fate last year, by Madhab Aryal (kp
28/07/2020)
Traffic
Disruption Affects Life In Mustang (rn
26/07/2020)
Majority
of public vehicles in the Valley are not
following health and safety rules: Public health
experts have warned of the coronavirus risk if
public vehicles do not follow the guidelines set
by the government, by Anup Ojha (kp
24/07/2020)
Resumption
of taxi services fail to cheer up drivers,
by Nishan Khatiwada (ae 24/07/2020)
Vehicular
movement resumes in full swing in Kathmandu
valley (ht 23/07/2020), Public
vehicles violating safety rules (ht
23/07/2020)
Landslides,
flood make commuting to remote areas difficult
in Dhading (ht 23/07/2020)
BP
Highway disrupted following heavy rainfall
(rep 20/07/2020)
Haphazard
construction of rural roads causing landslides:
The construction of roads without proper surveys
has been the leading cause of landslides in
several places of the hill districts, by
Pratiksha Kafle (kp 20/07/2020)
Beni-Jomsom
road section badly damaged due to landslides:
The road stretch that connects the eastern and
southern corners of Gandaki Province is highly
vulnerable to landslides, by Ghanshyam
Khadka (kp 20/07/2020)
Prithivi
Highway disrupted as road depresses at
Mauwakhola, by Narahari Sapkota (rep
20/07/2020)
Lalitpur
Metropolitan City announces plans to build five
flyovers in the city: Mayor Maharjan says he is
committed to completing the detailed project
reports within his tenure (kp 19/07/2020)
Public
transport to resume from tomorrow, by
Kunga Hyolmo (rep 19/07/2020)
Locals
still cross Lalbakaiya river in Tikuliya Ghat by
boat: A boat capsized by hitting the pillar of
the under-construction bridge and killed five
people two years ago but the under-construction
bridge has not been completed yet, by Shiva
Puri (kp 19/07/2020)
Nepal
Army studying legal implication of expressway
consultant being blacklisted: The World Bank has
found Korean company designing bridges and
tunnels in the expressway guilty of fraud in
Vanuatu, by Binod Ghimire (kp 18/07/2020)
Siddhartha
Highway blocked following landslides, by
Mukti Prasad Nyaupane (rep 18/07/2020)
Driver’s
licence tests may resume only after Dashain,
transport department says: Hundreds of thousands
of applicants and many driving instruction
schools have been affected as licence
application and tests have been closed since
March, by Anup Ojha (kp 18/07/2020)
Federation
halts public transport, but some private
companies resume service in Kathmandu Valley:
Private companies that have started operating
buses accuse the transport federation for trying
to restore syndicate in the sector, by Anup
Ojha (kp 15/07/2020)
Restoring
public transport: The government needs to strike
a balance between safety and reopening the
economy (kp 13/07/2020)
Consumer
rights activists, commuters criticise public
transport fare hike: The decision puts extra
burden on members of the public, who are already
stressed financially due to the Covid-19
pandemic and the lockdown, observers say, by
Anup Ojha (kp 12/07/2020)
Public
transport operators decide not to resume
services despite lifting of ban: They say that
the government needs to fulfill their demands
first, by Anup Ojha (kp 11/07/2020)
Building
Safer Hill Roads Through Bio-Engineering, by
Navaraj Pokharel (rn 09/07/2020)
Drivers'
Negligence Blamed For Higher Rates Of Road
Accidents In Valley (rn 08/07/2020)
Four
cops injured in clash with locals in Khokhana,
by Keshab Raj Thoker (rep 04/07/2020), Khokana
locals, police clash over ‘paddy transplantation
protest’: Police say four personnel injured;
locals say over a dozen were hurt in the
incident, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
05/07/2020), Listen
to Khokana: The government can’t dislocate
thousands of people from their indigenous
habitat in the name of development (kp
06/07/2020)
Ride
sharing app start limited services in Kathmandu:
Company says it’s only for emergency use,
traffic police say riders will be punished if
caught, by Anup Ojha (kp 03/07/2020)
Government
urged to make transport service effective
(ht 03/07/2020)
Public
vehicle entrepreneurs are caught between months
of inactivity and growing calls from banks to
pay loans: Even though the government has eased
the lockdown for private vehicles with an
odd-even rule, there’s no such arrangement for
public vehicles in sight, by Deepak Pariyar
(kp 02/07/2020)
Taxi
drivers protest outside transport department,
accuse officials of forcing them to ‘kill
themselves’: Ever since the government eased the
lockdown rules from the second week of June,
taxi drivers have been raising their voice
demanding that they too be allowed to work,
by Anup Ojha (kp 01/07/2020), Drive
home a solution: The government must either let
taxi drivers return to work or help them
financially (kp 02/07/2020)
Road
construction puts settlements in Baglung at risk
of landslide: Since the monsoon rains
intensified in the past two weeks, the district
has seen over a dozen landslides, by Prakash
Baral (kp 27/06/2020)
Landslides
and floods threaten many settlements in mid-hill
region: Haphazard construction of rural roads
have raised the risk of landslides and erosions,
road engineers say, by Madhab Aryal (kp
25/06/2020)
Traffic
lights back in operation in valley (ht
24/06/2020)
Kathmandu
Metropolitan City announces subsidies for staff
to buy bicycles: Cycling enthusiasts, however,
say the decision makes little sense when the
mayor hasn’t built a single cycle-friendly lane
in the city in his three years in office, by
Anup Ojha (kp 22/06/2020)
Cabbies
hit by government decision to ease lockdown only
for private vehicles: In the past two days,
traffic police have detained over 700 taxi
drivers for defying the restriction, by Anup
Ojha (kp 18/06/2020)
Sharp
rise in number of people entering Kathmandu
after govt eased lockdown (rep 16/06/2020)
1,754
accidents in lockdown kill 193 people (kh
16/06/2020)
Odd-even
rule for motorcycles irks commuters: The rule
will affect hundreds of people rely on
two-wheelers to get to work and run their
businesses, by Anup Ojha (kp 16/06/2020))
Government’s
odd and even rule not effective in Kathmandu,
virologist suggest if vehicles and number of
people on the road not controlled this will
create havoc: Citizen criticize the government’s
rule of restricting pillions in motorcycle and
call it a ‘nonsense move’, by Anup Ojha (kp
13/06/2020)
Restriction
on pillion-riding affects mobility (ht
13/06/2020)
Two
dead, two missing as tipper plunges into Karnali
River in Kalikot: Following an altercation with
the passengers, the driver exited the vehicle
which had its engine running, causing the
accident, police said, by Tularam Pandey (kp
11/06/2020)
Digging
of roads banned from June 15 to September 16
(ht 10/06/2020), Road
department to not allow digging on urban roads
during rainy season: Despite the notice, roads
will be dug up to lay pipes under the Melamchi
Drinking Water project, officials say, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 11/06/2020)
Kathmandu
city officials fixing pavements that don’t need
fixing, locals allege: Ward representatives,
however, say they are utilising the budget, and
accusations against them are politically
motivated, by Anup Ojha (kp 05/06/2020)
An
electric shock to Nepal’s energy future: Hike in
e-car tax will increase dependence on imported
petroleum, add to air pollution, by Ramesh
Kumar (nt 05/06/2020
Roads
to nowhere: The government’s planning of major
traffic infrastructure within the Valley shows
how careless its plans are (kp 01/06/2020)
12
killed and 21 injured in an accident in Banke:
The injured have been taken to Nepalgunj-based
Bheri Hospital for treatment, said police,
by Madhu Shahi (kp 01/06/2020), Banke
road accident: Death toll climbs to 12, four
critically injured, by Arjun Oli (rep
01/06/2020), Dozen
die, 21 injured as microbus rams into parked
truck in Banke: All passengers on the bus were
migrant workers returning home from various
cities in India after losing their source of
income in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic,
by Thakur Singh Tharu & Madhu Shahi (kp
02/06/2020)
Flyover
and underpass plans fail to convince some urban
planners: Similar projects were announced in the
past, only to be abandoned, they say, by
Anup Ojha (kp 31/05/2020)
Government
halves budget for Kathmandu-Tarai expressway:
The project deadline could be affected due to
budget crunch, Defence Ministry officials say,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 30/05/2020)
DoR
blacktops 77-kilometre road during lockdown:
lockdown: The department has also completed the
construction work of 21 bridges (ht
25/05/2020)
Traffic
fatality rate in Valley unchanged despite
lockdown restrictions: Overspeeding on empty
roads has caused 10 deaths in the last 48 days,
according to the traffic division office, by
Anup Ojha (kp 14/05/2020)
DoR
working on various projects despite lockdown
(ht 22/04/2020)
Contractors,
industrialists face difficulty getting workers
to return to workplace: Workers’ unwillingness,
lack of transport and accomodation facilities
hurt efforts to re-start work, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 20/04/2020)
Gaushala-Chabahil
road maintenance to begin today (ht
19/04/2020), Construction
of Gaushala-Chabahil section halted: Truck
ferrying construction materials stopped by
locals in Kavre (ht 22/04/2020)
Road
office takes lockdown as opportunity to upgrade
roads in Kathmandu: After resurfacing nearly 12
km of the city's roads, the road office is
currently painting road markings, officials say,
by Anup Ojha (kp 16/04/2020)
Army
rushes to pick consultant for Expressway as
nation combats coronavirus: Law flouted while
selectiung Korean firm (rep 02/04/2020), Nepal
Army selects consultant for Kathmandu-Tarai
expressway by violating procurement guidelines:
Complaint says army officials completed contract
negotiations, which would normally take two
weeks, within three hours, by Anil Giri (kp
03/04/2020), Consultant
selection process in controversy (ht
05/04/2020)
Curfew
clamped in Panauti as protests erupt after truck
kills woman and her child: During Monday’s
protests, police used tear gas shells and opened
fire in the air to disperse the mob. Six police
personnel and three locals were injured in the
clash, by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 18/03/2020)
In
Nepal, road safety battle can be won: The
investment in road safety is not just a moral
imperative, but a development priority, by
Hartwig Schafer (kp 17/03/2020)
National
pride project Kaligandaki Corridor’s
construction grinds to a halt: The 131km road
project kicked off in January 2019, by
Narayan Sharma (kp 15/03/2020)
New
lane rules along Koteshwor-Kalanki stretch
(ht 15/03/2020)
Space
crunch hits KMC’s plan to construct parking lots
(ht 15/03/2020)
Ride-sharing
services banned yet again (ht 12/03/2020)
Six-lane
road turns into a playground for children,
by Rohit Mahato (rep 12/03/2020)
Road
authorities to clear encroached land along
Bhimdatta Highway: Hundreds of houses and huts
have been built encroaching upon the area near
highway that links the hill districts of
Sudurpaschim Province to Dadeldhura, by D.R.
Pant (kp 11/03/2020)
New
lane rules to be enforced along
Koteshwor-Kalanki stretch (kp 11/03/2020)
Installation
of traffic violation software in three more
places comes as relief to traffic police,
service seekers: Officials say the new system
will help maintain an exact record of traffic
rule violators in Kathmandu Valley and assist in
planning, by Anup Ojha (kp 09/03/2020)
Six
killed, 34 injured in two road accidents
(rep 05/03/2020)
Overloaded
trucks take toll on Ghorahi-Holeri Road, by
Dinesh Subedi (kp 05/03/2020)
Lalitpur
locals call officials out on dusty,
pothole-riddled road: After running out of
options, they installed ‘protest boards’ by
collecting up to Rs 200, by Anup Ojha (kp
04/03/2020)
No
solution in sight for the deadlock surrounding
Mid-hill Highway’s construction in Lamjung
section: A total of 813 houses would be brought
down if the current policy of the city
development committee holds, by Aash Gurung
(kp 03/03/2020)
Traffic
cops start monitoring public vehicles (ht
02/03/2020)
Delay
in road blacktopping triggers protest, road
block in Gorkha, by Narahari Sapkota (rep
01/03/2020)
New
lane rule on Suryabinayak road to minimise
accidents, punish rash driving: Traffic police
say heavy vehicles, including buses, need to
stay on the left, private vehicles on the right
(kp 29/02/2020)
Construction
of Nagdhunga-Sisne Khola tunnel from Dhading
side to begin, by Rudra Khadka (rep
29/02/2020)
Night
bus service planned in Kathmandu from Nepali New
Year: Although city rules say buses should run
till 10pm, roads wear deserted look after 8,
by Anup Ojha (kp 28/02/2020)
Traffic
congestion in Rajbiraj affects locals: In the
absence of bus parks, public vehicles stay put
on the road to pick up passengers, causing a
long traffic snarl, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp
27/02/2020)
Construction
of Diktel-Khanidanda-Ahale road in limbo: The
deadline for the project, which began in
September 2018, is March 20, by Dambar Singh
Rai (kp 26/02/2020)
Build
bridges (rep 24/02/2020)
Road
expansion drive along Mahendra Highway halted as
a byproduct of coronavirus outbreak: Several
officials representing the contractor haven’t
returned to Nepal since they travelled to China
to celebrate the Chinese New Year last month,
by Narayan Manandhar (kp 23/02/2020)
Nepal
needs additional $879m for safer roads: WB
(ht 22/02/2020)
Gaur
Bazaar section of Malangawa road yet to be
asphalted: The locals in the area complain of
poor health conditions because of air pollution
caused by the dusty Malangawa-Nawalpur road,
byOm Prakash Thakur (kp 20/02/2020)
Naagdhunga
road full of potholes again, by Sarita
Shrestha (kp 20/02/2020)
Repair
work yet to begin on damaged Narayangadh-Muglin
road: Some sections of the road stretch started
to sink while the upgradation work of the
Narayangadh-Muglin project was underway two
years ago, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
19/02/2020)
Dismal
progress in Saljhandi-Sandhikharka-Dhorpatan
road project: Only a 10-kilometer stretch of the
road has been blacktopped so far, by Laxman
Ghimire (rep 19/02/2020)
NCP,
NC roads in Bajura! (ht 19/02/2020) [Party political insanity!]
Nepal
Army fails to spend budget for the expressway
again: Calling bids for complex bridges and
tunnels before the new fiscal year was not
possible, Brig-Gen Pandey says, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 18/02/2020), Efficiency
eludes the army: Delays to the Kathmandu-Tarai
expressway will further put forth compounded
challenges (kp 19/02/2020)
Infrastructure
development discourages agriculture production
in Doti: Those families who were self-reliant
are now completely dependent on the market for
their daily supplies, by Mohan Shahi (kp
18/02/2020)
Four
killed in road accidents in Morang (ht
16/02/2020)
Haphazard
construction of rural roads increases the risk
of accidents along the Mahakali Highway section
that passes through Darchula: According to
transportation entrepreneurs and workers,
instead of easing connectivity, the rural roads
have been causing landslides and transport
disruption, by Manoj Badu (kp 15/02/2020)
CCTV
cameras a boon for tackling hit-and-runs, by
Ashim Neupane (rep 15/02/2020)
Department
of Roads wants to use airport land to ease
traffic congestion at Koteshwor: The civil
aviation ministry has agreed to provide land for
a two-lane road on the Koteshwor-Jadibuti
section and a one-lane road near Jadibuti,
officials say, by Anup Ojha (kp 14/02/2020)
Regulate
ride-sharing services: Patan High Court (ht
14/02/2020)
KMC
plans to operate night bus service within the
city (ht 14/02/2020)
Over
600,000 waiting for driving licenses for months:
Mass printer fails to clear license backlog as
hoped (rep 12/02/2020)
Humla
folks still dependent on tuins to cross Karnali
river: There are six tuins still in operation
across the Karnali river in the district, say
locals, by Chhapal Lama (kp 11/02/2020), A
bridge to fear: Rural Nepalis continue to rely
on risky tuins to cross rivers; the government
must speed up efforts to replace them (kp
12/02/2020)
DoTM
to increase age limit for obtaining driving
licence (ht 11/02/2020), DoTM
set to increase age limit to 18 years to get
driving license (rep 11/02/2020)
Budget
crunch leaves fate of Jumla-Jajarkot roads in
limbo (ht 11/02/2020)
Vehicular
collisions need more attention: Research needs
to be conducted to create driver-centred
interventions to prevent road traffic crashes,
by Mukesh Adhikari (kp 10/02/2020)
Under-construction
bridge at Tikuliyaghat develops cracks: The
under-construction bridge in Tikuliyaghat
deadline has not been extended but the
construction work is still incomplete, by
Shiva Puri (kp 09/02/2020)
Recently
asphalted Charpane-Narayanchok-Jayapur road
develop cracks: Some sections of the
six-kilometre road are riddled with potholes,
say locals, by Arjun Rajbanshi (kp
08/07/2020)
A
two-way street: Maintaining road discipline and
ensuring road safety will bear less fruit if the
government or motorists fail to do their part
(kp 06/02/2020)
Sajha
explores legal options as government demands Rs
3 billion back along with interest: Company’s
chief executive says authorities must back the
decision with a ‘solid reason’, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 04/02/2020)
Bijuli
Bazaar arch bridge is set to open in a month,
but there are concerns it will ease traffic:
There’s uncertainty over completion of a similar
bridge in Tinkune after Pappu Construction, the
contractor, was blacklisted for using
substandard material, by Anup Ojha (kp
04/02/2020)
Electric
vehicles proposed for top-level government
officials: A committee under the Ministry of
Physical Infrastructure and Transport comes up
with the plan in a bid to reduce expenses over
fossil fuel-run vehicles and promote EVs in the
country, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
02/02/2020)
Most
roads in Ramechhap are unmotorable: Keeping in
view the poor condition of rural roads, all
three governments—federal, provincial and
local—have prioritised road upgradation work in
the current fiscal year, by Tika Prasad
Bhatta (kp 02/02/2020)
Chhepetar
in Gorkha Municipality tense after tipper-hit
kills woman (ht 01/02/2020)
Open
manholes have now been covered but their
elevation poses another problem: Raised
manholes, which act as an unexpected speed bump
on the roads and cause accidents, are a death
trap, said numerous drivers, by Anup Ojha
(kp 31/01/2020)
Traffic
Police have made lane discipline more stringent,
but only 33 percent of roads in Kathmandu have
road markings: On average, the traffic police
books 200 lane violators every day in the
capital, by Anup Ojha (kp 30/01/2020)
Shailung
Construction was fined for project delay, but
government body is unsure whether it should
recover the fine amount: Shailung is being fined
Rs150,000 per day since October for the delay of
upgrade and expansion of Kamalbinayak-Nagarkot
road, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
29/01/2020)
Tension
flares after tipper kills youth: Curfew imposed
to restore normalcy (ht 29/01/2020)
Road
division offices are not getting issue-specific
suggestions from procurement monitoring office:
Procurement monitoring office says it lacks
officials with technical background to address
the concerns of road division offices, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 28/01/2020)
Criticism
leads Department of Roads to restore 12
dysfunctional traffic lights, but no one is sure
about their longevity: Traffic lights on the
Capital's roads were dysfunctional almost
throughout the past year, by Anup Ojha (kp
27/01/2020)
Speeding
drivers causing road accidents in Mahendranagar:
Thirteen people have died in 31 road accidents
in the first six months of the current fiscal
year, according to the data of the District
Traffic Police Office in Kanchanpur, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 26/01/2020)
Gorkha-Barpak
road awaits blacktopping (rep 26/01/2020)
Locals
face hardship as road project in Janakpur keeps
missing deadline: The Postal Highway Directorate
is once again set to extend the project deadline
by a year, by Santosh Singh (kp 26/01/2020)
Govt
decides to retract Rs 3bn from Sajha Yatayat
(ht 24/01/2020)
Lalitpur
needs to live up to its promises on promoting
cycling: The city has promised to change urban
mobility for the better, but implementation has
been lacking still (kp 24/01/2020)
Nepal
Cycle Society awaits approval and implementation
of new cycle law in Lalitpur: City mayor assures
that the law will be passed at any cost, by
Anup Ojha (kp 23/01/2020)
Bagmati
Province to operate electric buses by mid-May:
Province to procure vehicles itself, after an
agreement between the government and Sajha
Yatayat Co-operative fell apart over share
issues, by Subash Bidari (kp 23/01/2020)
New
fast track in Eastern Nepal cuts short distance
by almost half, by Bhim Chapagain (rep
23/01/2020)
7
killed, 35 injured in truck accident (ht
22/01/2020)
Province
1 government opposes Centre’s move to build
roads in state: Provincial, local governments
say the federal government’s guideline regarding
the construction of connecting road
infrastructure infringes upon their rights,
by Deo Narayan Sah (kp 21/01/2020)
Opening
of track linking Taplejung headquarters to China
border point elates locals: For the track to
reach the Nepal-China border point, the
construction company still needs to cut a
passage through a nearly one-kilometre rocky
cliff face, by Anand Gautam (kp 20/01/2020)
Time-card
system introduced in Jhapa to control road
accidents: The traffic office has set up its
desks in Kakadbhitta, Birtamod and Damak to
issue and check time-cards, by Arjun
Rajbanshi (kp 20/01/2020)
Urban
Road Standard gathers dust at Cabinet for five
months, by Umesh Poudel (ht 20/01/2020)
Humla
connected by road network (rep 20/01/2020)
Too
many vehicles, too short road: Until the
dichotomy between the number of vehicles and the
size of road is bridged, traffic congestion will
haunt us as a nightmare, by Thaneshwor
Chalise (rep 19/01/2020)
A
municipality in Khotang has two bus parks but
they are never occupied: Haphazard parking in
the market area has increased the risk of
accidents because of congestion, locals say,
by Dambar Singh Rai (kp 18/01/2020)
Road
safety awareness drive launched for jaywalkers,
but people complain of faded zebra crossings:
Traffic police have given awareness classes to
more than 1,900 jaywalkers over three days,
by Anup Ojha (kp 17/01/2020)
Poor
roads the main reason for road accidents in
Salyan, police say: According to police data,
road accidents in the district have risen by
three-fold in three years, by Biplav
Maharjan (kp 17/01/2020)
Road
linking bridge over Mechi River yet to be built
(ht 16/01/2020)
A
remote village in Musikot connected to road
network 17 years since construction started:
With direct motorable access to nearby markets,
villagers hope for development to take off,
by Hari Gautam (kp 14/01/2020)
KMC
divided over removing parking lot from Khula
Manch (ht 14/01/2020)
Govt
tells 18 fuel stations to relocate to safer
spots (rep 14/01/2020)
Pedestrians
have no space on narrow, overcrowded Okhaldhunga
roads, by Sher Bahadur Jero (rep 14/01/2020)
Six-lane
Birgunj-Pathlaiya road to be ready by mid-July
(rep 14/01/2020)
Over
four years since government decision to replace
tuins, they are still in use over Mahakali
River: Tuins are still in operation at seven
places in Byas Rural Municipality, by Manoj
Badu (kp 13/01/2020)
A
year after handover of Kalanki-Koteshwor road,
the eight-lane expressway still lacks safety
infrastructure: Forty-five people have died and
769 others have been injured on the road in the
past 19 months, by Anup Ojha (kp 10/01/2020)
Construction
of Madan Bhandari Highway via Chure worsens the
fragile zone, a report says: The 1200-km under
construction highway, which will traverse the
Chure range, fails to consider the region’s
geology and possible environmental damage,
including serious impacts on the ecology and
people of Tarai, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
10/01/2020)
One
more thing the state has a problem with: truck
poetry: The Department of Transport Management
has outlawed the quirky verses on the backs of
public vehicles, saying they cause distractions
and road accidents, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp
06/01/2020), Truck
literature must survive—and thrive: The
government wants to scuttle voices that puncture
its narrative of 'Prosperous Nepal, Happy
Nepalis', by Dinesh Kafle (kp 06/01/2020)
Safety
barriers helped reduce number of accidents on
Karnali Highway: Police data: The Road Sector
Development Project of the World Bank had helped
the department to construct road safety barriers
as a pilot project, by Tularam Pandey (kp
06/01/2020)
Traffic
police to constitute task force to monitor
public transport anomalies: Every day, personnel
will be deployed in plain clothes to monitor
wrongdoings by public vehicle operators, by
Anup Ojha (kp 05/01/2020)
Heavy
snowfall disrupts road transportation (ht
05/01/2020), Snowfall
obstructs highway, scores of passengers stranded
(rep 05/01/2020)
A
village in Rukum (West) are bringing road
connectivity to their homes: The locals of
Umakhola village are opening a road track using
traditional tools and equipment, by Hari
Gautam (03/01/2020)
Govt
decides to initiate second phase of Ring Road
expansion drive (ht 03/01/2020)
Four
persons die, four injured, one missing in Bajura
jeep plunge (ht 03/01/2020)
Department
of Roads gears up to initiate Butwal-Palpa
tunnel project: The planned 1.3-kilometre tunnel
will have double lanes with a width of 8.5
metres and a sidewalk, by Prahlad Rijal (kp
02/01/2020)
Tokha-Rasuwagadi
road: Chinese technical team starts preliminary
study (hr 92/01/2020)
Locals
worry homes will be inundated due to expansion
of Ghinaghat-Biratchok road: The Province 1
government has been expanding 22.7 km of the
road into four lanes with a design that doesn’t
take into account the locals living along the
road, by Deo Narayan Sah (kp 01/01/2020)
Under-construction
Madan Bhandari Highway draws flak, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 31/12/2019)
Four-lane
road in Gaighat near completion, by
Maheshwar Chamling Rai (rep 31/12/2019)
No
mercy to the roads: So let’s define carrying
capacity, by Shyam Sunder Kawan (ht
30/12/2019)
Shoddy
repair work causes potholes to reappear along
Nayabazar-Balaju road: Department of Roads
claims more than 60 percent of potholes in
Kathmandu Valley have been set right, by
Anup Ojha (kp 27/12/2019)
Transport
department plans tougher driving licence tests:
The department is working with the traffic
police division to amend the existing law,
by Anup Ojha (kp 26/12/2019), Procuring
driving licence could get tougher (ht
27/12/2019)
15,444
drivers, riders booked (ht 26/12/2019)
Construction
of Madan Bhandari Highway delayed due to
dispute: Residents of Salkot and Babiyachaur
want the highway to be constructed near their
settlements, by Jyoti Katuwal (kp
26/12/2019)
Over
70% drivers, conductors have high blood
pressure: Bajura police (rep 26/12/2019)
Uncertainty
in the construction of a bridge in Darchula: The
bridge, upon completion, would have connected
Mahakali Municipality to Dharchula in
Pithoragarh, India, by Manoj Badu (kp
24/12/2019)
Two
drivers arrested for unhealthy competition on
road, by Dhruba Dangal (rep 24/12/2019)
Pappu
gets permission to repair damaged Jabdighat
bridge: The 435-metre long bridge over the Babai
river had caved in even before it was handed
over to the government authorities., by
Kamal Pnthi (kp 23/12/2019)
Construction
of strategic roads in Jajarkot going at a
snail’s pace: Despite the roads being only
partially built, the federal government had not
allocated any budget to the road projects in the
current fiscal year, by Bhim Bahadur Singh
(kp 22/12/2019)
Private
cars drive taxis away from Bhaktapur: An
estimated 400 private second-hand cars and vans
are being operated in Dudhpati, Bhaktapur Durbar
Square, Kamalbinayak, Thimi and Sallaghari,
by Anup Ojha (kp 21/12/2019)
Mapping
of road accident black spots ordered (ht
21/12/2019)
Will
imposing odd-even vehicle rule reduce pollution?
Two lawyers think so.: Urban engineers say the
formula may not make a lot of difference and the
state needs to think of long-term solutions to
air pollution, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
20/12/2019)
Syaubari-Dhunche-Syaphru
section of Pasang Lhamu Highway in dilapidated
condition: The road section, which was severely
damaged in the 2015 earthquakes, is riddled with
potholes every few metres, by Balaram
Ghimire (kp 18/12/2019)
Army
hands over 30 km stretch of Kali Gandaki
Corridor road to govt (rep 18/12/2019)
Woman
dies after being hit by a car in the Capital:
Police arrest the driver and a second man, both
of whom were under the influence of alcohol,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 17/12/2019)
27,000
trees cut during fast track construction (ht
17/12/2019)
Dharan-Sindhuli-Hetauda
road project slows down: According to project
officials, around 75 percent of work along the
Dharan-Sindhuli-Hetauda road has been completed
so far, by Subash Bidari (kp 17/12/2019)
Continuous
snowfall disrupts Martadi-Kolti road stretch in
Bajura (ht 16/12/2019)
15
killed and 17 injured as passenger bus veers off
a road in Sindhupalchok: Overspeeding and rash
driving led to the accident, suspect police,
by Anish Tiwari (kp 16/12/2019), Tough
law needed: Road accidents can be minimised to
some extent provided the bus owners and drivers
are held accountable for the passengers’ safety
(ht 17/12/2019)
Traffic
Division to train over 100,000 school students
and drivers on traffic rules: The division will
launch a new drive from December 17, mobilising
133 traffic police personnel in all 44 units
within Kathmandu Valley, by Anup Ojha (kp
15/12/2019)
There
are roads in remote Dadeldhura, but none good
enough for operation: Almost all local units
have been building roads in the name of
development, but vehicles cannot operate in most
because they are often built without proper
homework, by D.R. Pant (kp 15/12/2019)
Discipline
the drivers (rep 15/12/2019)
Bailey
bridge connects Khotang to eastern tarai
(rep 15/12/2019)
Nepali
and Chinese officials stress road connectivity
to boost tourist arrivals from China: Nepal was
able to attract a meagre 0.1 percent out of the
total Chinese visiting abroad, by Prahlad
Rijal ()kp 14/12/2019)
Govt
to resume installing embossed number plates
(ht 14/12/2019)
'Pokhara
to get its first sky bridge by upcoming April',
bny Sandesh Shrestha (rep 14/12/2019)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road section to remain closed during noon (ht
12/12/2019)
DoTM
starts printing smart driving permit through
‘mass printer’ (ht 12/12/2019), ‘Mass
printer’ dysfunctional in less than a week after
its launch (ht 14/12/2019), Transport
department starts printing of driving licenses,
by Sujita Pradhan (rep 16/12/2019)
Kathmandu
proposes its own 3.1 km cycle lane after
Lalitpur: Cyclists welcome City’s move, but say
it’s waking up a bit too late in the day, by
Anup Ojha (kp 11/12/2019)
Chapter
of accidents: Heavy penalties are a must to
strictly enforce the traffic rules for the
safety of both passengers and pedestrians
(ht 10/12/2019)
Dandapari,
a remote part of Kavre, connected with road
network: Road connectivity has brought comfort
to the locals who once had to walk for days to
reach the nearest market, by Nagendra
Adhikari (kp 10/12/2019)
Nepal
Army scraps decision to select international
consulting firms for Kathmandu-Tarai expressway:
An internal probe finds evaluation criteria were
leaked; with new bidding, the completion
deadline has been pushed to May 2024, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 10/12/2019)
Construction
of Narayangarh-Butwal road stalled (ht
10/12/2019)
Banke’s
Kohalpur tense after a truck hits a
studentProtesters set the vehicle on fire;
police fire warning shots and lob tear gas
shells, by Madhu Shahi (kp 09/12/2019), Kohalpur
erupts for the second day after truck runs over
girl: Protesters defied prohibitory orders to
stand up against police brutality; authorities
agree to a six-point agreement, pledging
compensation and investigation, among others,
by Madhu Shahi (kp 10/12/2019), Normalcy
restored, prohibitory order still stands (ht
10/12/2019), Local
admin to request govt for fair probe into
Kohalpur incident, by Arjun Oli (rep
10/12/2019), Prohibitory
order lifted in Kohalpur (ht 11/12/2019)
Battered
roads and chaotic traffic: Pedestrians, public
transportation, government vehicles, goods
carriers and private vehicles, in that order,
should get priority, by Shyam Sundar Kawan
(kp 09/12/2019)
Design
for expansion of Muglin-Sisne Khola road nearing
completion: The 96-kilometre stretch will have
crawler lanes and fast lanes for slow and
high-speed vehicles, by Prahlad Rijal (kp
08/12/2019)
909
cabbies booked in a month for violating rules
(ht 08/12/2019)
Residents
of Nuwakot elated with the construction of
Chhahare-Tokha tunnel: Nepal and China on
October 13 had signed a memorandum of
understanding under which China will help build
two stretches of the road linking Kathmandu and
Rasuwagadhi, by Krishna Thapa (kp 6/12/2019)
PMO
forms rapid taskforce to address road problems
(ht 06/2/2019)
Directive
to cover potholes: Yet another deja vu, by
Jiba Raj Pokharel (ht 05/12/2019)
Road
safety must be a priority to end needless
deaths: Making the streets safer for pedestrians
and drivers should be a major policy priority
(kp 04/12/2019)
14
killed in Baglung jeep accident; 3 injured
airlifted to Kathmandu (ht 04/12/2019)
Ridesharing
apps solved out travel woes. But the government
is not convinced: The government should adapt to
changing times and accept app-based ridesharing
services, by Manish Raj Kharel (kp
01/12/2019)
Lalitpur
Metropolitan City inaugurates first bike lane in
the Valley: The city is working to promulgate
New Cycle Law 2020 to guarantee cycling is the
safest mode of transport in the metropolis,
by Anup Ojha (kp 01/12/2019)
Gridlock
fears grip Valley residents as Kathmandu gears
up for South Asian Games: The organisers of the
Games have promised a mega show, but for many on
the streets, the event could end up being more
of a hassle, by Suman Malla (kp 01/12/2019)
Encroachment
along Chandranigahpur road section continues
unabated: The highway and sidewalks are still
peppered with food and vegetable stalls, by
Shiva Puri (kp 01/12/2019)
After
public shaming, road authority warns contractors
to rush remaining work: Of the 17 road contracts
awarded under the second phase of line of
credit, work has only been completed on five
projects, according to officials, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 30/11/2019)
Construction
of 'Asia's longest suspension bridge' in final
stage, by Sangam Gharti Magar (rep
30/11/2019)
For
long-haul drivers, long hours on the road and no
help in case of accidents: Though stipulated by
law, injured drivers and the kin of the deceased
rarely receive any financial assistance from
their employers or the government, by Parbat
Portel and Samuel Chhetri (kp 29/11/2019)
19
dead after bus falls off a cliff in
Arghakhanchi: A dozen more were injured after
the bus plunged 500 meters down the road, by
Birendra KC (kp 28/11/2019)
Construction
of the Tinau corridor starts, but
conservationists decry the move: A total of
Rs450 million has been allocated for the
corridor in the current fiscal year, by
Amrita Anmol (kp 26/11/2019)
Construction
of Postal Highway's Birgunj-Kalaiya-Bariyarpur
stretch picks up pace, by Upendra Yadav (rep
26/11/2019)
Legal
side of infrastructure: Is Nepal ready to tackle
the legal issues related to tunnels and
underground infrastructures?, by Bipin
Adhikari and Bidushi Adhikari (rep 26/11/2019)
Gokuleshwor-Khalanga
road still remains neglected: The construction
of the road stretch started under the Panchayat
government. However, the track is yet to be
completed, by Manoj Badu (kp 25/11/2019)
Police
yet to identify culprit in hit-and-run that
claimed doctor’s life (ht 25/11/2019), Baneshwor
hit-and-run suspect arrested (ht 27/11/2019)
Department
of Transport opens up avenue for e-taxis: New
guidelines will facilitate the operation of
e-taxis, which should be sedans with a
40-kilowatt motor and a lithium-ion battery,
by Anup Ojha (kp 24/11/2019)
Locals
of Susta using boats to cross Narayani River
since ages due to lack of bridge, by Rekha
Bhusal (kp 24/11/2019)
All
roads in Birendranagar, the capital of Karnali
province, in poor condition: Most of the roads
in the city are unmotorable—causing
inconvenience for vehicles and pedestrians alike,
by Chandani Khatayat (kp 23/11/2019)
Triyuga-Gaighat
road to be upgraded within three months, by
Maheshwar Chamling Rai (rep 23/11/2019)
Locals
enraged over snail-paced road construction,
by Binod Subedi (rep 23/11/2019)
Government
issues a second notice asking to stop
ride-sharing services: Operators call it a
ridiculous move, saying the government is
fearful of technology, by Anup Ojha (kp
21/11/2019), The
government should encourage entrepreneurship and
innovation, not stifle it: Ride-sharing is here
to stay, and laws will make the operators more
responsible (kp 22/11/2019), Govt
steps up crackdown on Tootle, Pathao, by
Umesh Poudel (ht 25/11/2019), Govt
backs down over ride-sharing ban after public
backlash, by Sujeeta Pradhan (rep
27/11/2019)
Shopkeepers
of Chabahil halt vehicular movement (ht
21/11/2019) [Criminal
neglect by an incompetent government!]
Surkhet-Jumla
road section of Karnali Highway in dilapidated
condition: The road section was last paved in
May 2012, and in just seven years, it is riddled
with potholes and cracks, by LP Devkota (kp
21/11/2019)
Biratnagar
locals protest delay in road construction
(ht 20/11/2019)
Electric
vehicles likely to replace tempos, micro-buses
(ht 19/11/2019)
Road
department bars subordinate bodies from
preparing bid package over Rs500 million: The
move is aimed at stopping collusion among
builders and checking the mobilisation cost,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 18/11/2019)
345
bikers detained in a single day (ht
18/11/2019)
Nepal’s
first, and forgotten, tunnel: 102 years later,
the country has finally understood the advantage
of highway tunnels to cut travel time, by
Gopal Gartaula (nt 15/11/2019)
For
elderly visitors to Swayambhunath, even crossing
the road is a hazard: Elderly worshippers, who
visit Swayambhu every day for the kora, fear
that expansion will only make the Ring Road
section more dangerous, by Anup Ojha (kp
15/11/2019)
Electricity
poles stand in the middle of the road in
Sarlahi: The notorious Pappu Construction is the
contractor for the project, and has used
substandard materials for the construction as
well, say locals, by Om Prakash Thakur (kp
15/11/2019)
Forest
ministry allows cutting 46,294 trees to expand
Butwal-Narayangadh section: The expansion work
was on hold over the issue of cutting trees,
by Narayan Sharma (kp 14/11/2019)
Birtamod–Bhadrapur
road project : 25 percent work finished,
deadline two months away, by Yubaraj Bibash
(rep 14/11/2019)
Enraged
locals slam contractor for dilly-dallying in
expanding Bhaktapur-Nagarkot road, by
Krishana KC (rep 14/11/2019)
Local
units in Jajarkot prioritise road construction
over other sectors: Genuine and sensitive issues
are being ignored because most local units
equate development with roads, by Bhim
Bahadur Singh (kp 13/11/2019)
Babai
bridge damaged due to careless construction
nearby: The Bridge Division has been
constructing a new two-lane bridge alongside an
old one to connect Gulariya with the rest of the
district, by Kamal Panthi (kp 13/11/2019)
Lalitpur
Metropolitan City to start construction of 4.7
km cycle lane from next week: Nepal Cycle
Society estimates there are over 150,000
cyclists in the Valley, and it expects the
numbers to go significantly higher if more
infrastructure are added, by Anup Ojha (kp
12/11/2019), Lalitpur’s
plan to make the city cycle-friendly should be
lauded: But, as always, how the project is
implemented is important (kp 12/11/2019)
Dusty
roads make life difficult for the residents of
Salyan: Though the Division Road Office
allocates millions of rupees for road repair
work every year, the roads in the district are
in dire conditions, by Biplab Maharjan (kp
12/11/2019)
Madan
Bhandari Highway: Gaighat Bazaar section to be
25-meter wide (rep 12/11/2019)
538
people died in 4,657 road accidents in the last
three and a half months (rep 10/11/2019)
Traffic
division gives 15-day ultimatum to truck drivers
to implement new rules: With seven killed and
146 injured in the past three months, traffic
police ask drivers and owners to make necessary
changes to the trucks’ bodies, by Anup Ojha
(kp 10/11/2019)
Construction
of bridges bring respite to the locals in
Province 5, by Binod Ghimire (rep
10/11/2019)
Bridge
over Trishuli River in limbo (ht 10/11/2019)
Construction
of Pushpalal Mid-hill Highway hit (ht
10/11/2019), Put
highway on track: Since the highway is to be the
lifeline of the mid-hills, the government must
pay due attention to its early completion
(ht 11/11/2019)
Just
four months into repair, the Sindhuli section of
the BP Highway is already riddled with potholes:
Immense traffic, especially of heavy goods
carriers, has taken a toll on the recently
repaired road, road authorities say, by Raj
Kumar Karki (kp 09/11/2019)
Locals
living around Urlabari-Rabi road section suffer
from health complications caused by dust
pollution: The road has been under construction
for the last seven years with no sign of
completion, by Deo Narayan Sah (kp
09/11/2019)
Traffic
police warn against reckless driving (ht
09/11/2019)
Road
expansion work along Butwal-Narayangadh begins:
Upgradation work has been delayed over the issue
of felling trees along the roadsides, by
Narayan Sharma (kp 07/11/2019)
Second
phase of Ring Road expansion from January
(ht 06/11/2019)
Main
contractor out of contact, construction in limbo,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 06/11/2019)
Blacktopping
of Diktel-Halesi road completed (rep
06/11/2019)
In
Myagdi, rural roads turn into “death zones” for
locals: A total of 100 people have been killed
in dozens of accidents in the district since
2008, according to data provided by District
Police Office, by Ghanashyam Khadka (kp
05/11/2019)
Road
fatalities in Nepal: When will it end? (rep
05/11/2018)
At
least 17 people killed as bus falls into
Sunkoshi River in Sindhupalchok: Search and
rescue operation will be carried out throughout
the night, say police, by Anish Tiwari )kp
04/11/2019), Entire
Shailung rural municipality in mourning, by
Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 05/11/2019), Sonam
Tamang: The man who saved dozens of lives,
by Dhurba Dangal (rep 06/11/2019)
Construction
of Dharan-Chatara-Sindhuli-Hetauda road in final
stage, by Anil Bhandari (rep 05/11/2019)
Four
major motorable bridges in Dang completed before
set deadline: The bridges are between 200 metres
and 860 metres long and the construction works
have been completed seven months to one year
ahead of the deadline, by Durgalal KC (kp
04/11/2019)
Upgradation
work along Okhaldhunga-Rumjatar finally gathers
momentum: Authorities say they will fine
contractors Rs 90,000 per day if they don't
deliver on time, by Kumbharaj Rai (kp
03/11/2019)
60pc
Midhill Highway in west sector completed, kp
03/11/2019)
Construction
of the Bahane-Syaulibang road started 21 years
ago but it’s still incomplete: Lack of enough
budget, misappropriation of funds, ineffective
use of allocated budget, disputes regarding road
alignment are the main causes behind the delay
of the road project, by Giru Prasad Bhandari
(kp 02/11/2019)
Festive
season road accidents in Valley rising, traffic
data show: Traffic police says drink-driving and
speeding are main causes of road accidents,
by Anup Ojha (kp 01/11/2019)
Pokhara-Muglin
highway to be widened to four lanes: The $254
million project is expected to be completed in
2025, by Sangam Prasain (kp 01/11/2019)
Electric
lights to be installed along Belahiya-Butwal
road, by Mohammad Habib (rep 01/11/2019)
Local
units in Baglung prioritise constructing foot
trails to promote tourism: The local government
aims to promote the already-existing foot trails
and explore new ones keeping tourism in mind,
by Prakash Baral (kp 01/11/2019)
Nepal's
second longest bridge construction completes
(ht 31/10/2019)
Traffic
division starts training programme for drivers
from Singha Durbar to cut down on traffic rule
violations: Traffic Police gives training to 35
drivers of Home Ministry and would train other
officers after Tihar, by Anup Ojha (kp
28/10/2019)
Pantapara
villagers suffer for lack of bridge over the
Biring river: Villagers blame the construction
company for the delay in the bridge’s completion,
by Arjun Rajbanshi (kp 27/10/2019)
Department
of Transport Management: New mechanism to
determine public transport fare in offing
(ht 26/10/2019)
Access
to road brings prosperity to a village in
Surkhet, by Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep
26/10/2019)
Construction
of bridge over Bhotikhola River starts (rep
26/10/2019)
Electric
vehicles are the future of mobility, but is
Nepal ready? Electric vehicles could combat air
pollution and reduce the country’s dependence on
imported oil, but there’s still room for more
effective policies and support infrastructure,
by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp 26/10/2019)
China
to upgrade dirt track that connects Tiptala
Bhanjyang and Olangchungola: The Chinese
government has allocated Rs 960 million for the
upgradation of the road in Taplejung, by
Ananda Gautam (kp 23/10/2019)
Oli
inaugurates construction work of Nagdhunga
tunnel: The proposed tunnel will be 2.45 km long
and have two 3.5-metre lanes, by Prahlad
Rijal (kp 22/10/2019), Construction
of Nagdhunga-Naubise tunnel road project
commences (ht 22/10/2019), Nagdhunga-Naubise
tunnel road to be completed in 42 months, by
Muna Sunuwar (rep 22/10/2019)
Smart
driving license backlog piles up as mass printer
remains unutilized, by Sujeeta Pradhan (rep
22/10/2019)
Sajha
e-bus procurement process put on hold over slow
progress: The cooperative transport company,
however, says it took time to set up a
multi-stakeholder committee and prepare bidding
documents, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
21/10/2019), Purchase
of 300 electric buses halted (ht
21/10/2019), What's
holding up the buses? The procurement process
should be sped up, not stopped (22/10/2019),
Govt
blocks purchase of 300 electric buses by Sajha
over specifications row, by Sagar Ghimire
(rep 22/10/2019)
Mid-Hill
Highway section gets bogged down in confusing
rule: Since the criterion hasn't been published
in the gazette, old rule determining the margins
is in effect, officials say, by Prakash
Baral (kp 21/10/2019)
Upgradation
of Naubise-Nagdhunga road completed, by
Sarita Shrestha (kp 19/10/2019), Nagdhunga-Naubise
tunnel: Construction to begin tomorrow (ht
20/10/2019)
Police
blame mushrooming party palaces with
insufficient parking for traffic woes: Division
office writes to city office and the district
administration to set criteria and monitor
mushrooming banquet halls, by Anup Ojha (kp
19/10/2019)
Second
phase of ring road expansion from Kalanki to
Maharajgung likely to start in the new year:
Department of Roads expects to clear road
section of trees and electric poles within the
next two months, by Anup Ojha (kp
18/10/2019)
Govt
to expand Thankot-Mugling road (ht
18/10/2019)
Tree
issue puts Butwal-Narayangadh road expansion on
hold: A fresh assessment before project’s launch
showed the number of trees to be cut at 50,352,
up from 9,027, by Ghanshyam Gautam (kp
17/10/2019)
Koshi
Corridor: New hopes for north-south highway,
by Rohit Rai (rep 17/10/2019)
Kandra
Bridge not built even in eight years, by Dil
Bahadur Chhatyal and Puspalal Joshi (rep
17/10/2019)
Road
department rejects the recommendation for load
test on Rs200 million bridge built by Pappu
Construction in Teku: The dispute between the
department and the contractor erupted after the
department refused to accept the bridge, terming
the structure as substandard, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 16/10/2019)
Passengers
rarely report taxi drivers for overcharging,
traffic police say: Most cabbies in Kathmandu
refuse to go by taximeters and set their own
fares, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 16/10/2019)
Postal
highway upgradation drive creates more problems
than solutions: The Bariyar-Paterwa stretch in
Bara, which is currently under construction, has
developed cracks and fissures only days after
the road was blacktopped, by Laxmi Sah (kp
15/10/2019)
Nepal,
China sign MoU to develop 50-km road linking
Kathmandu and Rasuwagadi: The road, including
two tunnels, will reduce the distance to the
town bordering China, but with feasibility study
yet to be done, construction is at least three
years away, by Prithivi Man Shrestha (kp
14/10/2019)
Road
condition the major stumbling block for
Lumbini’s tourism year goal: The Buddha’s
birthplace hasn’t seen as many tourists as
expected for the Lumbini Travel Year 2076, owing
to the sorry state of its roads, by Amrita
Anmol (kp 14/10/2019), The
government must undertake development activities
for its citizens: The problems road conditions
are creating for Lumbini’s tourism year goals
cannot be ignored (kp 15/10/2019)
Suspension
bridges help link Tehrathum villages with
headquarters: Every year, the District
Coordination Committee receives around 10 to 12
demands for suspension bridges, by Chandra
Karki (kp 14/10/2019)
Canopy
bridges installed to prevent deaths of Banke
wildlife on highways: Speeding and reckless
driving through sanctuaries continue to kill
protected animals, by Chandan Kumar Mandal
(kp 14/10/2019)
Offices
under road department ignored instructions to
invite bids by mid-September: The instruction
was issued to drive road offices to hasten the
tender process, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
13/10/2019)
Much
hype, little work to show: Rasuwagadhi border
point lies in a state of disrepair: While the
Chinese side of the border has received a major
facelift, that of Nepal remains in a sorry state,
by Balaram Ghimire (kp 12/10/2019)
Delay
in upgradation affects vehicular movement on
Nagma-Gamgadhi road, by Dhan Bahadur Budha
(rep 12/10/2019)
Transmission
line affects work of 6-lane road, by Yogesh
Rawal (rep 12/10/2019)
11
killed and dozens injured in Sindhupalchok bus
accident: Five persons died on the spot, one on
the way to the hospital and five others at
Dhulikhel hospital, according to police, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 11/10/2019), Bus
carrying over 100 falls killing 11, injuring 99
(rep 12/011/2019)
38
injured as passenger bus crashes into tree in
Chitwan (rep 09/10/2019)
Consumer
rights group supports traffic police’s action to
book drunk drivers: In the past one week, 1,305
drunk drivers have been booked in Kathmandu
Valley, by Anup Ojha (kp 06/10/2019)
Road
upgradation work along Lamosanghu-Jiri left
incomplete for four years: Thousands of
passengers travelling home for Dashain
celebrations are hit hardest by the dilapidated
road, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp 06/10/2019)
Birendranagar
aims to be the country’s first ‘cycle city’: A
Detailed Project Report (DPR) to construct
bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly roads in the
city is already underway, by Jyoti Katuwal
(kp 05/10/2019), Pedalling
good health: Birendranagar is all geared up to
turn into a cycling city by 2025—and that's good
news (kp 11/10/2019)
Traffic
police issue tickets to 1,121 drunk drivers over
the past five days: Police have stepped up
crackdown on drink driving in view of the
festival, by Anup Ojha (kp 04/10/2019)
Local
units taking initiatives to repair damaged
roads: Landslides have damaged around 3,000 km
dirt road this monsoon, authorities say, by
Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 04/10/2019)
Euro
VI standard fuel in local market from April
(ht 04/10/2019)
Slushy
roads hassling travellers (ht 02/10/2019)
Blocked
Diktel-Hilesi road reopened after 14 hrs
(rep 02/10/2019)
Bus
plunges into river, two killed, by Dinesh
Subedi (rep 01/10/2019)
Traffic
snarls choke Nagdhunga-Naubise road, but
alternative routes are not ready: There is an
immediate need to find a solution to congestion
along the main gateway to Kathmandu, officials
say, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
30/09/2019), Police:
Traffic congestion along Naubise-Nagdhunga road
eases, by Aditi Baral (rep 30/09/2019), Vehicular
movement along Naubise-Nagdhunga road eases: The
Dhading District Police Office has imposed a ban
on the movement of heavy vehicles on the road
during Dashain festival, by Harihar Singh
Rathour (kp 01/10/2019), Dysfunctional
system of governance: The long snake-like
traffic jam in Naubise-Nagdhunga aptly depicts
the incompetence of the state authorities,
by Achyut Wagle (kp 01/10/2019)
Birgunj-Thori
stretch of the postal road project sees little
progress: The Birgunj-Thori stretch is being
handled by AMR Pappu ConTech Joint Venture at a
total cost of Rs 2.12 billion, by Bhusan
Yadav (kp 30/09/2019)
Molung
Khola bridge construction delayed by over four
years: The Infrastructure Development Office has
asked the contractor company to present a
written work procedure within a week, by
Kumbharaj Rai (kp 30/09/2019)
Manthali
municipality penalises street vendors and shop
owners: On Friday, the municipal office
confiscated goods that were displayed in public
space for sale, by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp
30/09/2019)
Traffic
police have a difficult job, but many drivers
say they could be a bit friendlier: The traffic
police are woefully under-equipped to deal with
the city’s chaotic traffic and this can lead to
accidents, injuries and even deaths of personnel,
by Sneha Dahal (kp 29/09/2019)
Disputes
in construction of Mid Hill Highway in Lamjung:
Over 800 households will be affected if the Mid
Hill Highway project comes through in
Sundarbazaar, by Aash Gurung (kp 29/09/2019)
Upgradation
of Syaphrubesi-Rasuwagadhi road section starts:
Around 16km road will be upgraded to a two-lane,
all-weather highway, by Balaram Ghimire (kp
29/09/2019)
DoTM
bans heavy-duty vehicles from entering or
leaving valley (ht 28/09/2019)
Technical
difficulties in mass printer delay smart licence
printing: There are around 7,000 new applicants
every day but only 1,500 cards are being printed
currently, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp28/09/2019)
Traffic
police book 600 people for traffic rule
violation and ticket scalping: The Metropolitan
Traffic Division has adopted special
surveillance measures to discourage frauds who
have longe been fleecing the festival passengers,
by Anup Ojha (kp 28/09/2019)
Team
sent to inspect delay in upgradation work of the
Beni-Jomsom-Korala road: The project’s careless
implementation has put settlements along the
Kaligandaki river at landslide risks, by
Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 27/09/2019)
Why
are there so many road accidents during Dashain?
Speed, overload, fatigued drivers and poorly
maintained vehicles lead to crashes in the
festival travel rush, authorities say, by
Dipesh Khatiwada (kp 26/09/2019)
Dashain
passengers demand online ticket booking service.
Transport operators tell them to wait until next
festival season: Naya Bus Park counters sell
around 33,000 tickets in three days, by Anup
Ojha (kp 25/09/2019)
Tatopani
border closed after Nyalam-Ramite road section
caves in: Revenue worth Rs66.9 million was
collected at the border point in the first two
months of this fiscal year, the customs office
of Tatopani Dry Port says, by Anish Tiwari
(kp 25/09/2019)
Six
killed, 23 injured in separate road accidents
(ht 25/09/2019)
Vehicular
movement along Pasang Lhamu Highway halted for
10 days: Hundreds of containers carrying goods
from China lie stranded on the road, by
Balaram Ghimire (kp 22/09/2019)
Makwanpur
being a Tuin-free district by the end of the
current fiscal: Eighteen suspension bridges are
being constructed in eight local units of
Makwanpur in the fiscal year 2019/20, by
Pratap Bista (kp 20/09/2019)
Why
are Kathmandu’s traffic jams notorious?
Kathmandu Valley has seen a steady rise in the
number of vehicles even as effective measures of
traffic management are lacking, by Anup Ojha
(kp 19/09/2019)
Poor
condition of Beni-Jomsom road affects pilgrims
to Kagbeni in Mustang: Upgradation of the road
is going at a snail’s pace, which is affecting
hundreds daily, by Ghan shyam Khadka (kp
19/09/2019)
Revival
of road project to Everest region will transform
travel and local economy, officials say: Many
hope that the motorable road will put an end to
complete reliance on flights for travel to and
from one of the most popular destinations in the
country, by Sangam Prasain (kp 18/09/2019)
Public
vehicles on the Mid-hill Highway charging
exorbitant fares: Passengers are forced to pay
anywhere between Rs600 and Rs700 one- way
tickets, far exceeding the fare ceiling fixed by
the Department of Transport for highway buses,
by Prakash Baral (kp 18/09/2019)
Lakhs
deprived of smart driving licence (ht
18/09/2019), Look
smart, DoTM: Whatever the reason, having
service-seekers wait for years for a smart
driving license is simply frustrating (ht
19/09/2019)
Landslides
block Sanphe-Martadi road section (ht
17/09/2019)
The
city deploys broomers to clean the streets every
day. The tipper trucks mess them up overnight:
Large-scale construction projects in the Capital
have seen hundreds of trucks entering Kathmandu
during the night, leaving a dusty mess behind,
by Anup Ojha (kp 17/09/2019)
Bhuri
Gaun-Telpani road being upgraded for the first
time since it was built: Once the road comes
into operation, it is expected to work as a
lifeline for the residents of Sudurpaschim and
Karnali provinces, by Thakur Singh Tharu (kp
17/09/2019)
Fate
of 600 road projects hangs in balance as
provinces are reluctant to own them: Handing
over of these projects, previously under the
federal government, has stalled for more than a
year, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
15/09/2019)
Multiple
landslides along Tansen-Butwal section leave
passengers in hardship: Residents have for long
complained that the authorities concerned have
not taken concrete initiatives to resolve the
landslide problem in the area sustainably,
by Madhab Aryal (kp 15/09/2019)
Pasang
Lhamu Highway obstructed following landslide:
Locals, tourists and pilgrims going to Kailash
Mansarovar have been affected by the road
blockage, by Balaram Ghimire (kp 13/09/2019)
NEA
to install 50 electric vehicle charging stations,
by Supriya Sharma (rep 13/09/2019)
Where
have all the chautaris gone? As chautaris
disappear and locals voice concerns, Bharatpur
Metropolis pushes forward the idea of building
‘smart’, by Pramita Dhakal (kp 12/09/2019)
Locals
elated after road cut through cliff edge, by
Mohan Gurung (rep 12/09/2019)
New
traffic chief vows to reduce Valley’s traffic
problems: SSP Bhim Prasad Dhakal unveils a work
plan that revolves on the themes of engineering,
education and enforcement, by Anup Ojha (kp
11/09/2019)
Bajhenchyan
Danda-Diktel road section sees damage even
before work completion: The contractor company
says road infrastructures have been damaged due
to heavy rainfall during the monsoon, by
Dambar Singh Rai (kp 11/09/2019)
Electric
buses to start operation in Valley today (ht
09/09/2019), As
private sector introduces e-buses, experts say
onus to promote green vehicles lies on
government: Financial support to meet upfront
investment, more charging stations and
mechanisms to make them profitable are must to
make green efforts sustainable, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 10/09/2019)
Transport
Department says 200 buses will be added for
Dashain: Metropolitan Traffic Police Division
estimates that this year over three million
people are set to leave the valley, for which
9,000 buses are needed every day to carry
passengers, by Anup Ojha (kp 07/09/2019)
Passengers
suffer as 5 bridges remain incomplete, by
Madhusudan Guragain (rep 07/09/2019)
Tinkar
road section obstructed due to multiple
landslides: Vehicular movement has come to a
halt, leaving the locals of Duhu and Byas to
risk their lives by walking through the
landslide-prone Tinkar road, by Manoj Badu
(kp 06/09/2019)
Govt
fixes temporary fare for public EVs (ht
05/09/2019)
Transport
management office and traffic police to install
14 help desks for Dashain: The move is aimed at
helping people travelling to their hometowns
during the festival, by Anup Ojha (kp
04/09/2019)
Rs
720m goes down the drain in the name of road
building in Salyan district: A total of 500
roads have been built in the area, but locals
say the roads serve no purpose in elevating
their lives, by Biplav Maharjan (kp
04/09/2019)
Bridges
along the East-West Highway in dilapidated
condition: The Nawalparasi stretch is one of the
busiest sections of the East-West Highway.
According to the district traffic police office,
more than 1,200 vehicles use the road daily,
by Nabin Paudel (kp 04/09/2019)
Haphazard
road construction destroys lives, livelihoods in
rural districts, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal,
Jagat Khadka and Bira Gadal (rep 03/09/2019)
Food
prices shoot up in Kanchenjunga area as
Topethok-Ranipul road gets obstructed: With no
vehicles to import goods, the local grocers and
hoteliers have hired porters and Chauri to carry
the load, by Ananda Gautam (kp 03/09/2019)
The
road to disaster: Dozer use causing landslides,
by Dane Carlson (ht 03/092019)
Road
department turns in yet another dismal results:
Officials, however, claim progress in bridge
construction the most impressive with completion
of 250 structures in the last fiscal year,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 01/09/2019)
Vehicle
parking banned along Ring Road (ht
01/09/2019)
Rainwater
destroys road link to Manthali (ht
01/09/2019)
Govt
prepares to open bid for roads to Lamabagar
border, by Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 01/09/209)
Frequent
landslides obstruct Surkhet-Jumla road:
Landslides along the road section have blocked
the highway for 23 days within the last five
months, by Tularam Pandey (kp 01/09/2019)
Postal
Highway still incomplete, people in Tarai
disappointed (rep 31/08/2019)
Budhiganga
River in Bajura a perennial threat to locals:
Even though Tribeni Municipality recently banned
people from using the bridge, locals continue to
use it, by Sangeeta Timilsena (kp
31/08/2019)
Koteshwor’s
traffic jam is a nightmare for commuters. For
hawkers, it’s a boon to their business: Dozens
of roadside wait for vehicles to come to a halt
and linger for minutes so that they can earn
their living, by Anup Ojha (kp 30/08/2019),
Make
Kalanki-Maharajgunj stretch of Ring Road
public-centric and environment-friendly,
activists demand
Campaigners oppose the road department’s plan to
cut over 2,000 trees along the stretch, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 30/08/2019)
Most
rural roads in Baglung are swept away by
landslides during monsoon: Repair works start in
the winter season only to be severely damaged in
the monsoons, by Prakash Baral (kp
30/08/2019)
Government
extends Kathmandu-Tarai expressway deadline to
2024: Nepal Army, which is in charge of the
national pride project, hints at use force if
there is trouble in land acquisition in Khokana
area, by Binod Ghimire (kp 29/08/2019), Army
aims to complete expressway in 3.5 years: New
DPR pushes cost by Rs 63 billion (rep
29/08/2019)
What
comes first—electric cars or charging stations?:
Without a sizeable mass of EVs on the road,
operators may not be ready to invest in putting
up charging stations across the country, by
Prahlad Rijal (kp 28/08/2019), Nepal
unplugged: Electric vehicle adoption will
stagnate unless there are ample charging
stations (kp 29/08/2019)
Govt
to build 200 charging stations across country
(ht 27/08/2019)
Transport
Management Department brings in new machine to
meet service seekers’ demands: The new printer
has the capacity to print around 10,000 smart
licenses in a day and will print all pending
licences with two months, say authorities,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 27/08/2019)
Remote
rural municipality in Sankhuwasabha connected
with road network: The rural municipality
prioritised the project soon after the people’s
representatives were elected in 2017, by
Dipendra Shakya (kp 25/08/2019)
Overworked
drivers the main cause behind increasing road
accidents: Even though the buses seem to be
technically driven by two individuals, there is
only one driver, authorities say, by Harihar
Singh Rathore (kp 25/08/2019)
Traffic
police buy 36 new breathalysers to keep tabs on
drunk drivers: The new machines will be helpful
in checking drunk driving which is a major cause
of road accidents, traffic police say, by
Anup Ojha (kp 24/08/2019)
439
face suspension of licences for drink-driving
(ht 24/08/2019)
Damaged
by floods and landslides, Kanti Highway’s
deadline pushed further, project officials say:
The monsoon has brought about more than 100
landslides on the highway, causing road sections
to cave in at 15 spots, by Pratap Bista (kp
24/08/2019)
Budget
for road project released before work
completion: The road upgradation project is
still ongoing, locals say, by Manoj Paudel
(kp 24/08/2019)
Has
the ‘Pick and Drop’ drive really eased city’s
traffic? Many say the rule has indeed
systematised public transportation in the
Capital’s core areas, which has led to less
traffic jams, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
23/08/2019)
Bridge
construction started with investment of Rs
61.35m in Bhojpur (ht 23/08/2019)
Three
killed in jeep accident (rep 23/08/2019)
Ring
Road Improvement Project to axe over 2,000 trees
from Kalanki to Maharajgunj: Officials say the
move is part of a drive to widen the road from
three lanes to eight lanes, by Anup Ojha (kp
22/08/2019)
Locals
of Bramadev in Kanchanpur demand early opening
of Tanakpur bridge: The locals of Bramadev
submitted a memorandum to Gahatodi to take
initiatives to open the Tanakpur border point
soon, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 22/08/2019)
Kathmandu-Tarai
Fast Track DPR okayed: Estimated cost of the
project raised to Rs 175.19 billion ; Total
length reduced by 3.7 km to 72.5 km; Nepali Army
to construct 17-km stretch on its own, by
Umesh Poudel (ht 22/08/2019)
Karnali
govt launches campaign to replace tuins with
suspension bridges, by Ganesh Bishu (rep
20/08/2019)
Upgradation
of Syaphrubesi-Rasuwagadhi road section to begin
in October: Eighty-two houses along the road
section will have to be demolished, and 323
utility poles removed from the road area,
officials say, by Balaram Ghimire (kp
19/08/2019)
Almost
all Kathmandu Valley road expansion contracts
likely to face termination in less than a year:
Right of way is not clear in most of the
projects as the final deadline for completing
works approaches near, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 18/08/2019)
Traffic
police take action against 7,089 reckless
drivers (ht 18/08/2019)
Rs
2.61 billion budget approved to upgrade
Mailung-Syafrubesi road, by Himnath Devkota
(rep 18/08/2018)
Construction
work on Rayal-Thing road segment puts locals at
unease: Villagers remain wary and question the
sustainability of these infrastructural
development projects, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 17/08/2019)
Flood
sweeps away bridges leading to Phoksundo Lake,
by Bishnu Prasad Devkota (rep 17/08/2019)
Rural
roads make Karnali highway too risky, by DB
Budha (rep 17/08/2019)
Two
dead, three injured in separate accidents in
Tanahun (ht 16/08/2019)
City
office and traffic police raise millions in
fines as parking problem continues to grow:
Kathmandu Metropolitan City has designated 80
areas as parking lots, but hardly a dozen serve
as parking spaces, by Anup Ojha (kp
15/08/2019)
Bridge
over Arunkhola caves in, vehicles banned (ht
15/08/2019)
Under-construction
Birgunj-Pathlaiya trade road starts peeling off
(ht 15/08/2019)
Under-construction
bridge collapses in Saptari (ht 14/08/2019)
Floods
damage Sanphe-Martadi road (ht 13/08/2019)
Four
years since signing, a crucial transit agreement
sees no progress: Nepal, Bangladesh and India
have not been able to move forward on a
cross-border motor vehicles agreement after
Bhutan pulled out two years ago, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 12/08/2019)
Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi
road widening project begins: The government
recently started the upgradation work of
Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi road section, by Krishna
Thapa (kp 12/08/2019)
Engineering
study must before opening road tracks (ht
12/08/2019)
Cases
of valuable missing in taxis on the rise (ht
11/01/2019)
Two-driver
rule in long-route buses ineffective, by
Ujjwal Satyal (ht 11/08/2019)
Six
killed, 23 missing after a passenger bus plunged
into Trishuli: The bus was travelling from
Malangwa, the headquarters of Sarlahi district
to Kathmandu, by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp
10/08/2019), Death
toll in bus accident reaches 8 (ht
11/08/2019)
Insurance
for road accident victims to double to Rs1
million: Auto accidents killed 11,005 people
across the country in the last five years,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 10/08/2019)
Metropolitan
Traffic Police Division booked 12,749 taxi
drivers in the last fiscal year: Traffic police
say social media has hugely helped in taking
action against errant cabbies, by Anup Ojha
(kp 08/08/2019)
Vehicular
movement to take around two weeks to resume on
the Mid-Hill Highway, authorities say: The
highway remains obstructed after rain-swollen
Badigad stream swept away a road section on
Sunday, by Prakash Baral (kp 08/08/2019)
Upgradation
work of Beni-Jomsom-Korala road at snail’s pace:
Road project accuse concerned authorities of not
extending help to complete upgradation works,
by Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 07/08/2019)
Locals
hard put with landslide-damaged roads yet to
come into operation (ht 06/08/2019)
Khairenighat
gets a motorable bridge after 11 years, by
Anil Bhandari (rep 06/08/2019)
Pushed
to the curb, Kathmandu’s rickshaw pullers are
the last of a dying profession: Confined to a
small area inside Kathmandu Valley due to
traffic congestion, these rickshaw pullers
barely make enough to get by, by Samuel
Chhetri (kp 05/08/2019)
Cracks
appear on recently asphalted Bramhamadev road:
Officials blame MK Niraj and Road and Lama
Rajendra JV for doing the shoddy job, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 05/08/2019)
Traffic
congestion getting worse, by Ujjwal Satyal
(ht 05/08/2019)
Lingering
delay in bridge completion continues to put
lives at risk: Around 150 people use makeshift
rafts and boats to cross the Lalbakaiya River
every day, by Shiva Puri (kp 05/08/2019)
Newly
opened roads harm community forests in Darchula:
Locals blame forest users groups for not doing
anything to stop haphazard construction, by
Manoj Badu (kp 04/08/2019)
Public
transportation problems: Valley's denizens
continue to face problems as authoritieshave
failed to come up with any clear plans regarding
public transportation sector (ht 04/08/2019)
Workers
of Beni-Jomsom road project padlock site office
in protest over wage arrears: The contractor of
the 20-km road project has not paid workers’
wages for the past five months, by
Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 02/08/2019)
Road
causing inconvenience to Martadi people (ht
02/08/2019)
Locals
risk their lives to cross rain-swollen Mahakali
river: Villagers have to cross the river as they
rely heavily on Indian markets across the border
for everyday commodities, by Manoj Badu (kp
01/08/2019)
Pappu
told to dismantle, rebuild Tinkune Arch Bridge
(ht 01/08/2019)
Haphazardly
constructed rural roads become a bane for
Dhading residents, by Sarita Shrestha (rep
31/07/2019)
Blacktopping
of 30-km long road stretch in Barpak left midway,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 31/07/2019)
Arch
bridge in Muglin opens for trial after three
years of construction: The country’s first
two-lane arch bridge is already being used by
over 20,000 vehicles that use the Anbu Khaireni
road every day, by Anup Ojha (kp 31/07/2019)
Delay
in bridge installation restricts Manang locals’
mobility (ht 31/07/2019)
Road
crashes are not accidents: They can be prevented
by treating and addressing the underlying causes
in advance, by Prem Sharma Lamsal (kp
31/07/2019)
Absence
of motorable bridge over Seti river create
difficulties for villagers: Patients have to be
carried on stretchers or in bamboo baskets to
reach District Hospital in Chainpur, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 30/07/2019)
Stretches
of flood-damaged postal highway yet to be
repaired: Thousands of locals affected due to
transportation disruption along the highway,
by Om Prakash Thakur (kp 28/07/2019), Flood
damages five kilometres of Postal Highway,
by Prabhat Kumar Jha (ht 29/07/2019)
Khadichaur-Charikot
road closed for three consecutive days (ht
28/07/2019)
Road
accidents claim 223 lives in Sudur Pashchim last
year (rep 27/07/2019)
Donor
gives the green light to appoint a contractor
for Nagdhunga Tunnel Project: The project office
and locals of Dhunibesi yet to agree on land
compensation amount, by Prahlad Rijal (kp
25/07/2019)
Blacktopping
of Arniko Highway section wears off within a
year, by Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 25/07/2019)
Truck
operators withdraw protest: Govt forms a
nine-member task force to study VCTS, route
permit, among other issues (rep 24/07/2019)
Koshi
Highway resumes after eight hours (ht
23/07/2019)
Contractors
urged to manage traffic congestion (ht
23/07/2019)
Road
disruption causes daily commodities crunch in
hills (ht 23/07/2019)
Local
units giving priority to road projects, but
compromising their quality, by Sarita
Shrestha (rep 22/07/2019)
Recovery
of roads and bridges damaged by floods and
landslides to cost Rs220 million: Experts say
haphazard construction without proper study lead
aggravates damage to infrastructure, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 22/07/2019)
Tree
guards and fresh saplings rekindle hope for
Kalanki-Koteshwor road greenery project:
Lalitpur mayor offers Rs 6 million—a budget
allocated to buy him car—to purchase two tankers
to water the saplings, by Anup Ojha (kp
22/07/2019)
Jeep
plunge in Bajura claims two, leaves 12 injured
(ht 20/07/2019)
Under-construction
Bagmati bridge in limbo again, by Madan
Thakur (rep 20/07/2019)
Transport
bodies transform into companies (ht
20/07/2019)
Government
recommends new provisions for ride-sharing
sector: Ride-sharing companies urge the
government to hold dialogue in order to bring
proper provision and set proper criteria, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 19/07/2019)
A
day with the only female driver of Sajha
Yatayat: Many appreciate Harmita Shrestha’s
work, calling it a step ahead for women
empowerment, but in a ‘man’s world’ days aren’t
always that easy, she says, by Anup Ojha (kp
18/07/2019)
Nagdhunga
Tunnel project’s launch delayed again: The
project envisages boring a tunnel through the
western hills and eliminating many switchbacks
on the main highway leading out of Kathmandu,
by Prahlad Rijal (kp 18/07/2019)
Govt
enforces online consignment tracking system:
Private sector leaders skeptical about effective
implementation (rep 18/07/2019), Tarai
industrialists join protest against VCTS (ht
22/07/2019)
Govt
directs Pappu Construction to rebuild
parts of Teku bridge (ht 18/07/2019)
Contractor
of Madi bridge to get second deadline extension,
by Santosh Pokharel (rep 18/07/2019)
Haphazard
road construction triggers landslide in Bajhang,
by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 17/07/2019)
After
widespread criticism, smart parking fees revised
in New Road: The new charge for two-wheelers is
Rs 15 for up to 30 minutes, and Rs 25 for
an hour; for four-wheelers, it is Rs 50
for 30 minutes and Rs 80 for an hour., by
Anup Ojha (kp 16/07/2019)
Haphazard
road construction irks Rukum residents, by
Lokendra Khanal (rep 16/07/2019)
Road
construction works in Baglung lack in quality:
Poor monitoring and evaluation is blamed for
inferior work, by Prakash Baral (kp
15/07/2019)
Blacktopped
road damaged within a month of construction
(rep 15/07/2019)
Road
accidents claimed 121 wild animals in
2017-2018 (ht 14/07/2019)
Construction
of Thankot - Naubise tunnel road to begin in
October, by Himal Lamsal (rep 14/07/2019)
11
years on, road project still incomplete in
Baglung: Rural municipality aims to enlist it as
a ‘pride project’, by Prakash Baral (kp
13/07/2019)
Local
levels building perilous roads‘: What’s the
point of building such roads that lead to hell?’,
by Umesh Poudel (ht 12/07/2019)
Passengers
along Besisahar-Chame stretch face
problems (ht 12/07/2019)
Much-needed
tourist bus park stuck in limbo, by Nikeeta
Gautam (rep 12/07/2019)
Road
expansion project seeks ministry’s decision to
resume work or abandon it: Project authorities
say it’s been three months since they sent a
request, but the ministry has not responded yet,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 11/07/2019)
Province
1 fails to effectively implement ban on old
vehicles: Most older vehicles are in operation
in hill districts where the presence of traffic
police is little to none, by Sumnima
Chamling (kp 11/07/2019)
Why
we need night bus service: Government needs to
implement 24-hours bus service program
immediately in Kathmandu. Later this service can
be expanded to other urban cities like Pokhara
and Biratnagar, by Ashish Gajurel (rep
11/07/2019)
A
Sarlahi village suffers in lack of a bridge,
by Mithilesh Yadav (11/07/2019)
Three
killed, 16 injured in bus plunge (ht
11/07/2019)
PM
wary about estimated cost of fast track
project (ht 11/07/2019), Cut
cost of expressway: While the cost of the fast
track should be cut as much as possible, the
govt should also approve its DPR without further
delay (ht 12/07/2019)
Traffic
police hotline 103 gets thousands of complaints
every day: The toll-free line that started in
2006 receives complaints relating to daily
inconveniences faced by people in public
transportation, by Anup Ojha (kp 10/07/2019)
The
construction of Expressway puts settlements at
risk, locals say, by Subash Bidari (kp
10/07/2019)
Eight
years on, bridge construction in limbo (ht
10/07/2019)
Reducing
road fatalities: Road traffic fatalities and
injuries can be prevented but it requires
sustained commitment, effective intervention and
determined actions from the government, by
Som Nath Ghimire (rep 10/07/2019)
Heavy
vehicles stranded as diversion swept away
(ht 09/07/2019)
Corruption
in road project: Main contractor sub-contracts
road project for half the cost, by Suman
Malla (rep 09/07/2019)
617,252
yet to receive smart license cards (rep
09/07/2019)
Rural
roads being blacktopped, by Giriraj Baskota
(rep 09/07/2019)
Enraged
locals protest sluggish work at
Jaleshwore-Janakpur road section, by
Rabindra Upreti (kp 07/07/2019)
Saplings
along Kalanki-Koteshwor road are dying for lack
of care: Officials blame the metropolis and the
road department for failing to protect the
plants, by Anup Ojha (kp 05/07/2019)
Road
stretch opened through the fields prepared for
paddy plantation: Bulldozers used for the
construction also destroy water supply mains and
over 100 ropanis of paddy fields, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 05/07/2019)
Three
killed, five injured in Arghakhanchi jeep plunge
(ht 05/07/2019)
‘Highway
from Delhi to Nepal-China border to pass through
Saptari’ (ht 04/07/2019)
Reckless
driving blamed for rising road accidents in the
valley (ht 03/07/2019)
Rs
450million handed over to Sajha Yatayat to
purchase electric buses: Province 3 government
announces plan to operate electric buses in
Kathmandu within the next 10 months, by Anup
Ojha (kp 02/07/2019)
Manthali-Khurkot
road in sorry state (ht 02/07/2019)
Ferry
service to operate in Karnali River (ht
02/07/2019)
233
persons died in road accidents this fiscal
in Gandaki (ht 02/07/2019)
2
killed, 25 injured in Dhading bus-vans collision,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 01/07/2019)
Corridors
opened to ease traffic congestion are turning
into illegal parking spots: Hundreds of vehicles
are parked along the corridor underpasses at
Balkumari, Bhatkeko Pul, New Buspark, Gopi
Krishna, Setopul and Hanumansthan, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 01/07/2019)
Highway
prone to blockage due to ‘illegal’ sand mines,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 30/06/2019)
Faulty
design halts construction of bridges, by
Mukti Prasad Nyaupane (rep 30/06/2019)
Keeping
a check on daytime drunk driving difficult, say
traffic police: As per the traffic police,
excessive vehicular movement, lack of enough
human resources and equipment are the major
obstacles, by Nayak Paudel (kp 30/06/2019)
A
matter of life and death: A road safety audit of
the Kalanki-Koteshwor Road should have been
conducted before, not after, it was opened to
traffic, by Premsharma Lamsal (kp
30/06/2019)
Kathmandu
Metropolitan City floats plan to hike parking
fees: Presenting the financial bill on Tuesday,
Mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya proposed charging Rs
25 per hour for two-wheelers and Rs80 for
two-wheelers in the city’s core areas,
by Anup Ojha (kp 29/06/2019), Kathmandu
residents appreciate ‘smart parking’ in New
Road, but complain of higher costs: The cost of
Rs 25 per hour for parking two-wheelers and Rs
80 for four-wheelers is just too high, drivers
say, by Anup Ojha (kp 01/07/2019), No
parking: Mobile app will not provide sustainable
solution to the city’s parking woes (kp
02/07/2019)
Bajhang
district impounds bulldozers used illegally on
road projects: Bajhang DAO has instructed local
units to stop using dozers without conducting
a feasibility study, design estimate and
ensuring quality Environmental Impact Assessment,
by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 27/06/2019)
‘Government
committed to promoting e-vehicles’ (ht
27/06/2019)
3
students killed, 4 injured in tractor accident,
by Khamma Khatri (rep 27/06/2019)
Jumla's
risky and exploitative public transport system,
by DB Budha (rep 26/06/2019)
New
Road area 'smart parking' gets mixed response,
by Aditi Baral (rep 26/06/2019)
940
booked for speeding on Koteshwar-Kalanki run
(rep 25/06/2019)
Over
41k offenders booked for honking in Valley since
mid-April 2017, by Sujeeta Pradhan (rep
25/06/2019)
Lawmakers
doubt timely completion of fast-track (ht
25/06/2019)
Bitumen
shortage hits blacktopping of roads across the
country: Birgunj Customs Office bars three
consignments of bitumen for possible abuse of
South Asia Free Trade Area rules, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 24/06/2019)
Kalanki-Nagdhunga
road expansion nears completion: Cost to drop 15
percent due to reduced work for contractors,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 24/06/2019)
Landslip-prone
spots along Muglin road stretch remain
unattended, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (kp
24/06/2019)
Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi
road project officials complain of harassment
over land compensation, by Krishna Thapa (kp
24/06/2019)
Irate
Thali locals force mayor to walk on dilapidated
road (ht 24/06/2019)
Under-construction
bridge over Madi River in Kaski swept away
(ht 24/06/2019)
Haphazard
widening, blacktopping of roads as fiscal year
end nears, by Madan Thakur (rep 23/06/2019)
Lessons
from Amsterdam: Can Kathmandu ever be a
cycle-friendly city?, by Prarambha Dahal (kp
22/06/2019)
Bajhang’s
Pankot-Bhusya road built without technical
survey: Authorities often sanction opening of
road stretches in remote areas without any
plans, studies and tests, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 21/06/2019), Bajhang
administration to take action against those
involved in haphazard road construction: CDO
directs banning the use of bulldozers in road
projects worth below Rs 10 million, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 22/06/2019)
Dilapidated
Prithvi Highway section seeing more accidents,
by Binod Dhungana (rep 20/06/2019)
'Pick-and-drop
in public transport catching on, by Aditi
Baral (rep 20/06/2019)
'Sub-standard
roads' behind rising accidents in far-west
(rep 20/06/2019)
As
monsoon nears, open drains and uncovered
manholes pose even bigger risks: Heavy rains
tend to flood the Valley’s streets, obscuring
open drains and manholes from
motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians, by
Anup Ojha (kp 20/06/2019), Gaping
lack of concern: The yearly occurring injuries
and deaths due to open manholes and drains can
easily be avoided (kp 21/06/2019)
Thori
locals argue over highway alignment, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 20/06/2019)
Risky
travel: In this age of mobile phones, the
passengers should take the initiative to alert
the traffic cops about any tendency by the
drivers to overspeed or overload (ht
19/06/2019), Road
to death (rep 19/06/2019)
Jeep
plunges into Karnali: At least 10, including
rural municipality vice-chair, missing
(ht 19/06/2019), Status
of 10 missing in accident still unknown
(ht 20/06/2019)
One
passenger dead, 31 injured in Bara bus accident
(ht 18/06/2019)
Nine
killed in jeep accident (ht 18/06/2019)
Manthali-Khurkot
road stretch in sorry state (ht 15/06/2019)
Cars
in the Karnali: Humla and Mugu are finally being
linked to the rest of Nepal, but with the road
comes pollution, by Prakash Singh (nt
14/06/2019)
Galchi-Rasuwagadhi
road project moves at snail's pace, by
Sarita Shrestha and Himnath Devkota (rep
13/06/2019)
Roadworthiness
test for e-scooters irks riders, promoters and
sellers: As per a new government rule, the
test—among many other
requirements—includes riders to complete
an uphill ride to Seto Gumba with a pillion
rider, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
13/06/2019)
SC
tells govt not to build road, rail line thru CNP
without consultation, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
13/06/2019)
Officials
yet to go through Safety Audit report on
Kalanki-Koteshwor road: A total of 658 accidents
have taken place on the stretch in the past 10
months, by Anup Ojha (kp 12/06/2019)
Road
to Rara a ‘torment’ all the way, by DB Budha
(rep 12/06/2019)
Locals
block road for want of repair (ht
12/06/2019)
Transport
Department plans to resume night bus service in
Kathmandu: Along with the Ring Road, the public
buses will also go up to Dhulikhel and Thankot,
by Anup Ojha (kp 11/06/2019)
Helmet,
licence must for e-scooter riders: Department of
Transport Management has directed traffic
police to impose fines on those flouting
rules (ht 08/06/2019)
Road
project triggers migration in Bajura
(ht 08/06/2019)
Dusty
road along Bhairahawa–Taulihawa route a
challenge to Visit Lumbini Year, by Mohammad
Habib (rep 08/06/2019)
Three
killed in Trishuli jeep plunge, as many missing
(ht 05/06/2019)
Construction
of Karnali Corridor picks pace (ht
05/06/2019)
Once
he protested wide old roads on film. Now he’s
the one widening them.Nilkaji Shakya, now
chairman of Kathmandu’s Ward 25, is facing the
same kind of problems he presented 25
years ago as an actor in the MaHa teleserial
‘Kantipur’, by Arjun Poudel (kp 05/06/2019)
Kalanki-Koteshwor
becomes ‘killer road’, recording 658 accidents
in 10 months: Metropolitan Traffic Police Range
data shows 25 people have died and 454 others
have been critically injured in the road stretch,
by Anup Ojha (kp 05/06/2019)
No-go
zones for freight vehicles (ht
03/06/2019)
Province
3 govt to build Ring Road on outskirts of Valley
(ht 03/06/2019), Misplaced
priority: Instead of investing its limited
resources on a road in the Valley, Province-3
would do better by focussing on other vital
areas (ht 04/06/2019)
Construction
of Koshi Corridor Highway gains momentum, by
Ananda Gautam and Gyanu Ghimire (kp 02/06/2019)
Public
vehicles to issue 'electronic paying card': Town
planners, however, call the plan ‘too
ambitious’, considering the government’s
track record of unkept promises, by Anup
Ojha (kp 01/06/2019), Smart
parking system alone unlikely to end parking
woes in Kathmandu (ht 04/06/2019)
Police
take action against 10,787 errant cabbies
(ht 01/06/2019)
Driver
dies as bus falls into river in Sindhuli, by
Tanka Chhetri (rep 01/06/2019)
Road
construction agonizing locals, by Yogesh
Rawal (rep 01/06/2019)
Three
passengers killed, 22 injured in accident
(ht 31/05/2019)
Traffic
Police Division announces plan to intensify ‘no
horn’ campaign: The move is an effort to reduce
sound pollution levels in the Capital, says the
Kathmandu Metropolitan City, by Anup Ojha
(kp 30/05/2019)
‘Safety
issue compromised along Tatopani trade route’,
by Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 28/05/2019)
Dharan-Chatara-Sindhuli-Hetauda
road construction expedited, by Anil
Bhandari (rep 28/05/2019)
Outer
Ring Road: Heading for a limbo, by Jiba Raj
Pokharel (ht 27/05/2019)
Bad
road a challenge to Visit Lumbini campaign,
by Mohammad Habib (rep 27/05/2019)
3,000
vehicles booked in four months for haphazard
parking: Traffic police division says parking
violations have gone down after the introduction
of the ‘wheel clamp’ campaign, by Anup Ojha
(kp 26/05/2019)
384,206
traffic rules violators booked (ht
25/05/2019)
Traffic
police book over 10,000 errant taxi drivers in
five months: 3,000 of them get tickets for
refusing to go to the designated places, by
Anup Ojha (kp 25/05/2019)
Eight
years on, three bridge projects remain
incomplete: Controversial Pappu Construction
behind two of these projects, by Kumbharaj
Rai (kp 24/05/2019)
NEA
installing 10 EV charging stations (rep
24/05/2019)
Three
toots for Tootle: The motorcycle ride-share
serves as a reliable option for people with
disabilities unable to use public transport,
by Sonia Awale (nt 24/05/2019)
Muglin
bridge to come into operation from last week of
June (ht 23/05/2019)
Unsustainable
development projects in Sudurpaschim pose
environmental riskNone of the local units has
carried out environment impact assessment for
road construction projects, by Pant (kp
22/05/2019)
Locals
obstruct vehicular movement on
Chettrapati-Swoyambhu road section (ht
22/05/2019)
Locals
still crossing Mahakali River using tubes as
Indian officials defer inaugural of suspension
bridge, by Prem Chunara (rep 22/05/2019)
Construction
of Sadhikholsa Bailey bridge nears completion,
by Anish Tiwari (kp 21/05/2019)
Too
many ‘useless’ and substandard roads, by
Giriraj Baskota (rep 21/05/2019)
100
km track of Khulalu-Salli Salla road section
opens for vehicles, by Tularam Pandey and
Chhapal Lama (kp 21/05/2019)
Enhance
travel security: The government can no longer
stay indifferent to the growing number of
accidents, said to kill about 2,200 people
annually (ht 21/05/2019)
Two-wheeler
accidents result in more casualties in the
Valley, data shows: According to traffic police,
reckless driving of riders and poor road
conditions are major reasons behind the
accidents, by Nayak Paudel (kp 20/05/2019)
14
dead, 32 hurt in separate road accidents (kp
20/05/2019)
Transport
federation asks its committees to register as
companies within five days: The
government-imposed deadline ends on June 1,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 20/05/2019)
‘Pillion
riders will have to wear helmet’ (ht
20/05/2019), Safety
first: Proposed rule of making the helmet a must
for pillion riders is welcome (kp
21/05/2019)
Metropolis
to facilitate ‘digital parking’ in New Road next
week: Through the ‘Park KTM’ app, 700
two-wheelers and over 200 four-wheelers can book
parking spaces in five designated spaces in the
area, by Anup Ojha (kp 19/05/2019)
Rule
violators getting calls from Traffic Police
Office (ht 19/05/2019)
Mid-Hill
Highway Projectoffice seeks clarification from
erring contractors: The project directorate has
warned builders of blacklisting and contract
termination, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
19/05/2019)
Call
to promote electric vehicles: Environmentalists
demand adequate budget for implementing earlier
announced policies and infrastructure
development, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
17/05/2019)
Nepal
road accidents claimed 11,005 lives in five
years (rep 17/05/2019)
Hundreds
of students affected as locals block road in
Lalitpur (ht 17/05/2019)
Contractor
seeks extension of road project in Dhangadi
(ht 17/05/2019)
Road
construction snail-paced (ht 17/05/2019)
Elected
officials demand road be opened—against court
order: Supreme Court orders the
Tilganga-Tamaraganga road section remain closed,
as it is part of a UN heritage site and must be
protected, by Anup Ojha (kp 16/05/2019), Tilganga-Tamraganga
road shut down to protect heritage: PADT’s move
to close the 675-metre road was prompted by the
SC’s order three years ago (ht
16/05/2019)
Contractor
begins blacktopping Chabahil-Jorpati road
(ht 16/05/2019)
Krishnamarga
road sees 20% work progress, by Binod
Dhungana (rep 16/05/2019)
Heed
the warnings: Now that the locals of Chabahil
and Dholagiti have tasted success with their
protests, the residents of other localities
could also join the bandwagon (ht
15/05/2019)
Highways
Can Turn Parasitic, by Tone Bleie (rn
15/05/2019)
Locals
protest road construction delay, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 14/05/2019)
PM
Oli’s claim that Kathmandu is ‘dust free’ is far
from reality: City residents say VIPs who move
around in air conditioned vehicles are
unaware of the Valley’s ground reality, by
Anup Ojha (kp 13/05/2019)
Transport
office’s plan to install GPS in vehicles raises
privacy concern: New technology is a good
initiative but it needs broader consultations,
activists say, by Nayak Paudel (kp
13/05/2019)
Khutiya-Dipayal
fast-track halted,says forest office ht
13/05/2019)
Despite
action plans and ambitious targets, Nepal lags
behind in e-mobility transition: How Kathmandu
transited through the death of trolley buses and
Safa Tempos to hazardous air and dented spirits,
by Prahlad Rijal (kp 12/05/2019)
Construction
of major highways improves road connectivity
(ht 12/05/2019)
Agitated
residents, traders shut down unrepaired Bouddha
road: At least four protesters and a member of
the police force were injured in the brief
scuffle, by Anish Regmi (kp 10/05/2019) [The imcompetent politicians
and administrators had promised the repair years
ago!], Locals
protest road construction delay, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 10/05/2019), Contractor
buckles under pressure (ht 10/05/2019), Tusal-Bauddha
road prepared for instant blacktopping after
locals’ protest, by Sonam Lama (rep
11/05/2019)
Delayed
construction of road causing problems for
residents (ht 10/05/2019)
Bridge
construction hit by delay and use of inferior
materials: Four years since the expiry of
contract deadline, Swachhanda Construction
has delivered only 40 percent of the
project, by Chandra Karki (kp 10/05/2019)
Two-thirds
of budget of Kathmandu Tarai Expressway unspent
(brep 09/05/2019)
Road
asphalt wears off within a year of construction,
by Dinesh Subedi (rep 08/05/2019)
City’s
ineffective road clean-up drive is throwing
taxpayers’ millions down the drain: The
metropolis has spent Rs249,600 just on fuel for
its five broomers in the last 39 days, by
Anup Ojha (kp 07/05/2019)
Lack
of policies hits operation of electric vehicles
(ht 07/02/2019)
NEA
plans to set up 10 electric vehicle charging
stations in Valley (ht 06/05/2019)
The
story of a bridge that was never built, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 06/05/2019)
Traffic
police to remove illegal ticket counters, by
Anup Ojha (kp 05/05/2019)
Traffic
police
to enforce pick and drop in Kalanki area from
today: Officials hope the move will ease traffic
congestion and facilitate passengers, by
Anup Ojha (kp 05/05/2019)
Road
to connect China and India in Eastern region
nears completion, by Madhav Ghimire and
Dipendra Shakya (kp 05/05/2019)
Unplanned
road construction a big threat to Baitadi,
by Bira Gadal (rep 05/05/2019)
The
problem with buses in Nepal: We can emulate
Bogota, Columbia and adopt bus rapid transit,
instead of unfeasible metro-rails, by Bidur
Timalsina (kp 05/05/2019)
To
live in hope: Riding a bicycle in Kathmandu is
not healthy or safe. But neither is riding a
motorbike or a scooter. The hope is that
someday, it will be, by Asmof Karki (kp
04/05/2019)
Mustang
villages cutoff in lack of bridge over
Kaligandaki, by Sushil Babu Thakali (rep
04/05/2019)
Government
to
restore traffic lights in five places of Valley
by next week: The Department of Roads has
allocated Rs 10.9 million for the project,
by Anup Ojha (kp 03/05/2019)
42
errant cabbies booked in a day (ht
03/05/2019)
Settlers
occupy areas along Bhimdutta Highway (kp
02/05/2019)
Construction
of bridges along Postal Highway incomplete,
by Madhav Dhungana (kp 02/05/2019), Construction
of bridge along Postal Highway in limbo, by
Santosh Singh (kp 05/05/2019)
Dress
code for public vehicle ticket counter employees
(ht 01/05/2019)
Country’s
oldest highway in urgent need of repair, by
Pratap Bista (kp 30/04/2019)
Five
people dead in Palpa jeep accident (kp
30/04/2019)
Siddhicharan
Highway in sorry state (ht 30/04/2019)
Construction
of suspension bridge completed before deadline,
by Pratap Bista (kp 29/04/2019)
Landslide
prevention works of Narayangadh-Muglin road
delayed, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
28/04/2019) [No problem,
the next monsoon is still more than a month away
and it comes as a surprise!!]
Tatopani
border point to reopen in May, by Dhruba
Dangal (rep 28/04/2019)
29
per cent vehicles fail emission test in
Balkumari (ht 28/04/2019)
Stakeholders
realigning Jajarkot-Jumla road, by Bhim
Bahadur Singh (kp 26/04/2019)
Bridges
to
Balthali: Across three bridges, up and down a
couple of valleys and into relative serenity,
Balthali is Kathmandu’s unsung bolthole, by
Thomas Heaton (kp 26/04/2019)
Nepal’s
electric
transport future is here: Once seen as a quaint
option, electric vehicles promise ecological and
economic benefits, by Sonia Awale (nt
26/04/2019)
Five
people dead, 34 injured in Dadeldhura bus
accident, by Panta (kp 25/04/2019)
Tootle
and
Pathao make commute easy, but many women express
safety concerns: Women say harassment has not
stopped even though both ride-sharing
services say they have a system in place to
discourage—and penalise—riders, by Sachitra
Gurung (kp 23/04/2019)
Nepal’s
glaring
road problems: Political leadership is
indifferent to 2,000 lives claimed by road
accidents annually across the country (ht
22/04/2019)
Work
apace on Kaligandaki Corridor road widening,
by Shiva Lal Subedi (rep 22/04/2019)
Two
killed, 10 injured in Dhading Bus Accident,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 22/04/2019)
Kanti
Highway expected to be fully operational by
October, by Pratap Bista (kp 21/04/2019)
Newly
opened corridors will ease city’s traffic jam:
Traffic police, by Anup Ojha (kp 20/04/2019)
Construction
of bridge over Kamala River stalled for years,
by Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep 20/04/2019)
Asset
verification
process of transport operators set to become
free of hassles: Public transport operators are
yet to register as companies under new rules,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 19/04/2019)
Lack
of bridge forces Gumba folks to cross rivers
with ropes (ht 18/04/2018)
Kathmandu-Hetauda
Tunnel Highway: Govt neglect puts public money
at risk (rep 16/04/2019)
Verdict
on
Nagdhunga-Kalanki road expansion has knock-on
effect on other projects: Locals who were ready
to give up land for road expansion are now
seeking compensation in line with the Supreme
Court’s order, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
16/04/2019)
Stakeholders
say
theimplementation ofmetropolis’ new driving law
will be challenging: Focus on pedestrian
amenities and road surface markings, they say,
by Anup Ojha (kp 16/04/2019)
Locals
warn of protest against sluggish road
construction work in Bhaktapur (ht
16/04/2019)
Obstruction
in land acquisition delays construction of
Postal Highway, by Upendra Yadav (rep
15/04/2019)
Seven
dead, 42 hurt in separate road accidents (kp
15/04/2019)
Four
die, four injured in Dharan accident (ht
14/04/2019)
Most
roads in Rolpa constructed without DPR and IEA
report, by Dinesh Subedi (rep 14/04/2019)
Jajarkot
villagers rely on tuins to cross Bheri River,
by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 14/04/2019)
Bus
Rapid Transit: Can it be a panacea for public
transportation woes in Kathmandu?, by Bidur
Timalsina (kp 14/04/2019)
Reconstruction
work at Tatopani border nearing completion,
by Prahlad Rijal (kp 13/04/2019)
1,100
km of roads in quake-hit districts yet to be
rebuilt, by Diya Dhakal (rep 13/04/2019)
Government’s
plan to operate 300 electric buses fails to
garner momentum, by Anup Ojha (kp
11/04/2019), Electrify
the future: The government’s grand plan to
operate e-buses is yet to see the light of day
(kp 12/04/2019)
Nagdhunga
tunnel plan gets bogged down in paperwork,
by Prahlad Rijal (kp 12/04/2019)
Govt
to revise DPR of Outer Ring Road (ht
11/04/2019)
Over
50 pc vehicles in capital fail pollution test,
by Biken K Dawadi (rep 11/04/2019), 62.5
per cent vehicles fail tests (ht 12/04/2019)
Nagdhunga
tunnel construction delayed (ht 10/04/2019)
Highway
project pays out Rs560 million in compensation,
by Krishan Thapa (kp 10/04/2019)
After
traffic
police take down pamphlets, cabbies accuse
state of restricting freedom of expression: The
Department of Transport Management said the
pamphlets sent a ‘misleading message’ to
the public and were merely tools of ‘emotional
blackmail’, by Anup Ojha (kp 10/04/2019)
KMC
to slap fine for littering public vehicles
(ht 09/04/2019)
Seven
killed, 53 injured in road accidents (ht
09/04/2019)
Patan
wants
to become a cycle city. But can it pull it off?
The city’s mayor has an ambitious plan and a
bold vision, but he’ll first have to fight the
mindset that believes in development around
vehicles and driving roads, by Arpan
Shrestha (kp 08/04/2019), Lalitpur
to get bicycle lanes (ht 12/04/2019)
Locals
obstruct Prithvi Highway demanding immediate
repair, by Binod Dhungana (rep 08/04/2019)
Two
corridor roads opened to ease traffic congestion
(ht 07/04/2019)
Plan
to manage public vehicles puts authorities on
collision course, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 07/04/2019)
City’s
broomer
machines cleaning VVIP areas only: Kathmandu
Metropolitan City officials say they are still
imparting training to the machine drivers,
by Anup Ojha (kp 07/04/2019)
Three
killed in road accidents (ht 06/04/2019)
Plans
afoot to hike fine up to Rs10,000 for traffic
rules violators, by Anup Ojha (kp
05/04/2019)
Reform
plan launched to manage Valley’s traffic and
reduce pollution (kp 05/04/2019)
Government
raises toll for vehicles (ht 05/04/2019)
A
newly built bridge has been declared ‘risky’ but
vehicles continue to ply on it: The bridge in
Capital’s Teku was built by the ill-famed Pappu
Construction, by Samuel Chhetri (kp
04/04/2019)
Road
network at the doorstep of Everest (rep
04/04/2019)
Road
Department
tightens screw on erring contractors: The move
is aimed at encouraging builders to complete
their work within the deadline, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 02/04/2019)
Six
killed, three injured in Okhaldhunga jeep
accident (rep 01/04/2019)
Nepal
Police launches new system to record accidents
in the central database, by Nayak Paudel (kp
30/03/2019)
Rickshaw
pullers, taxi drivers share difficulties they
face everyday in Capital, by Anup Ojha (kp
29/03/2019)
Traffic
police
start pilot project in a bid to ease Capital’s
traffic woes: The undertaking focuses on the
renovation of the corridor and bridges, as some
sections are obstructed by mounds of soil after
construction, by Nayak Paudel (kp
29/03/2019)
Construction
of bridge left incomplete for last 9 years,
by Mohan Budhaair (kp 28/03/2019)
Mayor
inaugurates
broomer machines: Kathmandu Metropolitan City to
operate the newly brought machines at night
along five different routes, by Anup Ojha
and Sanjaya Lama (kp 27/03/2019)
Construction
of 11 suspension bridges in Humla in limbo,
by Janak Bahadur Shahi(rep 27/03/2019)
Binayak-Thatikhand
road sees little progress with contract due to
expire on April 28, by Menuka Dhungana (kp
27/03/2019)
Dusty
Chabahil-Sankhu stretch choking people,
businesses, by Anita Shrestha (ht
26/03/2019)
As
Bijulibazar arch bridge opens, youths find some
dangerous adventure, by Anup Ojha (kp
26/03/2019)
Foundation
stone laid for the longest suspension bridge of
Nepal, by Sangam Gharti Magar (rep
25/03/2019)
Delayed
Kalanki-Nagdhunga
road project is taking heavy toll on locals and
commuters: Hours-long traffic jams on the dusty
stretch are stressing people out, by Anup
Ojha (kp 24/03/2019)
Road
upgradation work halted citing insecurity, no
payment, by Anish Tiwari (kp 24/03/2019)
Rural
roads in poor state; no respite for locals,
by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 23/03/2019)
Pillars
of road safety: The number of road fatalities in
Nepal is increasing alarmingly despite an
action plan, by Shubhechchha Bhatta (kp
22/03/2019)
Kathmandu-Tarai
expressway to cost Rs 213 billion: Korean
company submits the final Detailed Project
Report to Nepal Army, by Binod Ghimire (kp
21/03/2019)
Tendering
process for remaining portion of Postal Highway
starts, by Rakesh Khanal (kp 20/03/2019)
Construction
of
Miteri bridge gains momentum: The Chinese
builder plans to complete the reconstruction of
the infrastructure in the bridge area within May
2019, by Anish Tiwari (kp 19/03/2019)
Eight
years
on, construction of the Kamala river bridge yet
to complete: A joint venture of the disreputed
Pappu Construction was contracted to complete
the bridge by the fiscal year 2015-16, by
Raj Kumar Karki (kp 18/03/2019)
Kathmandu
Valley’s
overhead bridges in dire need of repair: Urban
planners say dilapidated structures pose a
serious threat to pedestrians, by Anup Ojha
(kp 17/03/2019), A
bridge to fear: Kathmandu’s dilapidated
flyovers could be a disaster in the
waiting (kp 18/03/2019)
Locals
work together to build road on their own
(rep 17/03/2019)
Roads
blacktopped in Parbat, by Chhabilal Tiwari
(rep 16/03/2019)
Kathmandu
metropolis
allocates Rs500 million to instal 6,000 street
lamps: Metropolis to call tender for the
installation after two months, by Anup Ojha
(kp 10/03/2019)
Kathmandu’s
taxi
drivers say the meter fare is killing them: An
alliance of drivers in the Valley wants to set a
fixed rate for routes under three kilometres.
Officials say they haven’t given the demand a
thought, by Arpan Shrestha and Sanjog
Manandhar (kp 07/03/2019)
Landslide-blocked
Mailung-Syaphru road section yet to come into
operation, by Balaram Ghimire (kp
07/03/2019)
Transport
associations
say difficult to follow two-driver rule
Police are using a new system to ensure that two
drivers take turns to drive long-route buses to
their destination, by Nayak Paudel (kp
03/03/2019) [This must
not be an argument!]
At
least 11 killed in Darchula jeep plunge (rep
02/03/2019)
‘Traffic
congestion cost Kathmandu Rs 16.5 billion in
2018’ (rep 02/03/2019)
90
percent work on Muglin bridge complete; set to
open on Nepali New Year, by Anup Ojha (kp
01/03/2019)
Over
72,000 road projects in limbo (ht
28/02/2019)
DoTM
likely to hike public transport fare (ht
27/02/2019)
Go
electric to cut oil bill: As long as we import
petroleum, Nepal’s trade deficit will keep
ballooning, by Paban Pandey (kp 25/02/2019)
New
legal trouble for Pathao: A writ filed in the
Supreme Court challenges the ride-sharing
company’s legal status in Nepal, by Tsering
D Gurung (kp 25/02/2019), Top
court
rejects stay appeal against Pathao: Petitioner
and ride-sharing service company to furnish
written explanation to the court, by Tsering
D Gurung (kp 27/02/2019)
Seven
places prone to landslides along
Narayangadh-Muglin road, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 25/02/2019)
Pepsicola-Sallaghari
road expansion at snail’s pace (kp
23/02/2019)
Two
years on, 4.5-km bypass road sees no sign of
completion, by Sabita Shrestha (rep
23/02/2019)
45
public buses booked for overlooking rule (kp
22/02/2019)
People
in remote Rolpa village rejoice arrival of motor
vehicles, by Kashiram Dangi (kp 22/02/2019)
KMC's
lighting program in the dark: 7.5 pc of required
street lamps installed in seven months, by
Biken K Dawadi (rep 22/02/2019)
15-year-old
was driving ill-fated Baglung jeep (rep
21/02/2019)
Passengers
obliged to change multiple vehicles in
Dolpa-Nepalgunj route, by Bishnu Prasad
Devkota (rep 21/02/2019)
Electric
buses unveiled by PM remain garaged (rep
21/02/2019)
Road
mishap in Province - 5 : 350 dead, over 1,000
injured in seven months, by Rekha Bhusal
(rep 20/02/2019)
Work
on 12 bridges along Beni-Jomsom-Korala road
ongoing, by Sushil Babu Thakali (rep
19/02/2019)
Construction
of 7,000 road projects across country stalled
(ht 16/02/2019)
Jhulaghat
bridge
remains an unmet promise: Locals deprived of
economic benefits in absence of motorable bridge
over Mahakali River, by Bira Gadal (rep
16/02/2019)
At
least four killed, nine injured in Jajarkot bus
crash (kp 15/02/2019), Dilapidated
Rimna road blamed for Thursday’s accident,
by Janak KC (rep 16/02/2019)
Motorcyclist
killed after colliding with bus on East-West
Highway (kp 15/02/2019)
Traffic
police launches drive to shape up public bus
drivers, by Anup Ojha (kp 14/02/2019)
Crossing
Mahakali remains a challenge for Dadeldhura folk,
by Panta (kp 14/02/2019)
Dhading's
rural roads: Development in winter, destruction
in monsoon, by Sarita Shrestha (rep
13/02/2019)
Kalanki-Koteshwor
section undergoes road safety audit, by Anup
Ojha (kp 13/02/2019)
Footpaths
to be made compulsory in new roads: Transport
Minister, by Biken K Dawadi (rep 13/02/2019)
HoR
holds debate on road safety (ht 13/02/2019)
App
aims to ensure two drivers in long-route buses
(ht 13/02/2019)
Road
construction done without research causing
depletion of water sources, by Shumsher
Bikram GC (rep 12/02/2019)
115
tuins replaced with trail bridges (ht
11/02/2019)
DoTM
mulls int’l driving licence (ht 11/02/2019)
Police
to launch app aimed at making night buses safer,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 10/02/2019)
Undoing
traffic
jam: While the number of drivers penalized for
violating traffic rules is increasing steadily,
the number of violators is also rising, by
Kabi Adhikari (rep 10/02/2019)
How
safe is Kalanki-Koteshwar road?, by Bikan K
Dawadi (rep 10/02/2019)
Progress
on Koshi Corridor excites local entrepreneurs,
by Giriraj Baskota (rep 10/02/2019)
Palpa
Butwal road section shut for geological survey
(kp 10/02/2019)
Revving
up: It’s time to bid adieu to the internal
combustion engine, by Gaurab Raj Pandey (kp
10/02/2019)
Shortest
route linking Udayapur with Kathmandu comes into
operation (ht 09/02/2019)
Seven
dead in road accidents, by Raj Kumar Karki
(kp 08/02/2019)
While
KMC fails, a person’s drive to manage strays
thrives, by Anup Ojha (kp 07/02/2019)
Traffic
police
launch safety drive on Valley’s newly widened
road: Certain sections of the stretch have been
dubbed ‘death traps’, by Anup Ojha (kp
06/02/2019), Over
6,000 cabbies booked for traffic violations
(kp 06/02/2019)
Surveyors
plot landby breaching highway buffer regulation,
by Shiva Puri (kp 06/02/2019)
Singha
Durbar-Putalisadak road still in dark—so is KMC,
by Anup Ojha (kp 05/02/2019)
Khokana
will
remain Kathmandu-Tarai Expressway entry
point: Korean firm submits draft of the detailed
project report to the Nepal Army, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 05/02/2019)
Two-wheelers
involved in 56.49pc road accidents in Kathmandu
valley (ht 05/02/2019)
Handover
delay in peak season stalls more than 1,000 road
projects, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
04/02/2019) [Anti-federal
government politics!]
Suspension
bridge built in Darchula border yet to come into
use, by Manoj Badu (kp 04/02/2019)
Call
to pass bill related to road safety (ht
03/02/2019)
7-kilometer
track takes 41 years to open, by Ashok Sujan
Shrestha (rep 03/02/2019)
Tuin
accident victims to get govt relief (ht
02/02/2019)
Struggle
committee to intensify agitation for early
completion of bridges (ht 01/02/2019)
Road
construction project in limbo (ht
01/02/2019)
China’s
design
plan delays Ring Road phase two project: Chinese
side unhappy about criticism of the first phase
road expansion completed recently, sources say,
by Bibek Subedi (kp 31/01/2019)
3
months after repair, BP Highway back to square
one, by Anil Bhandari (rep 31/01/2019)
Economic
case
for road safety: If Nepal doesn’t act to reduce
road injuries it might lose seven percent of GDP
growth in the next two decades, by Puspa Raj
Pant (rep 30/01/2019)
Kathmandu-Tarai
expressway
to be shorter: According to Nepal Army, the
project report has proposed more tunnels,
shortening the road to 73.5km, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 30/01/2019)
Tipper-hit
kills minor in Morang: Biratnagar-Biratchowk
road section remained tense after irate locals
torched seven tippers (ht 29/01/2019)
Passengers
worried over reckless driving, by Sarita
Shrestha (rep 29/01/2019)
One-track
mind: To address road safety in Nepal, we need
to mind the gaps, by Puspa Raj Pant (kp
27/01/2019), Deadly
highways: Road safety should be made a national
priority as many people are dying in mishaps,
by David Kainee (kp 29/01/2019)
Nepal
Electricity Authority, driver blamed for Sabaila
accident, by Brij Kumar Yadav (ht
27/01/2019)
1
die, 25 hurt in bus crash (kp 26/01/2019)
Mismanagement
plagues transport department (ht 25/01/2019)
Highways
or
death traps? In the absence of proper monitoring
and precaution, highways that are being
envisioned will most certainly increase Vehicle
Wildlife Collisions, by Pramod Neupane (rep
24/01/2019)
Hundreds
of travellers stuck in snow in various districts
(kp 24/01/2019)
Ride
Sharing Ventures in Nepal, by Uttam Maharjan
(rn 24/01/2019)
Heavy
snowfall disrupts Solukhumbu-Kathmandu road
(rep 23/01/2019)
Pashupati
road being operated against Supreme Court
directive, by Anup Ojha (kp 22/01/2019)
City
starts work on overpasses (kp 22/01/2019), KMC
to build two pedestrian bridges this fiscal year
(rep 22/01/2019)
Locals
along Galchhi-Trishuli Road enforce banda
demanding compensation, by Krishna Thapa (kp
21/01/2019), General
strike hits life in Nuwakot (ht 21/01/2019)
A
dangerous life: Road safety is not a privilege,
but the right of the people (kp 21/01/2019),
Valley
roads claimed 132 lives in six months, by
Biken K Dawadi rep 21/01/2019)
4
dead, 25 hurt in separate road accidents (kp
21/01/2019)
Life
in the fast lane: The Nepal Army is overstepping
its mandate, and the fast track has dissatisfied
locals, by Ayushma Basnyat (kp 21/01/2019)
With
60 percent zebra crossings faded, pedestrians at
risk of being run over, by Anup Ojha (kp
20/01/2019)
Getting
back on track: Perpetual delays in legislation
and implementation on road safety will cost more
lives, by Bhagirath Yogi (kp 20/01/2019)
Three
dead, as many hurt in Sarlahi road accident: A
speeding truck hit a bus that was parked on the
roadside (kp 20/01/2019)
24
injured as bus overturns (kp 20/01/2019)
Chhinchu-Jajarkot
road in dilapidated state (kp 20/01/2019)
33
years on, Doti road construction nowhere near
completion (ht 19/01/2019)
Nepal’s
deadly roads take their toll: It is no longer
correct to call them accidents, this is
slaughter, by Gopal Gartaula (nt 18/01/2019)
Seven
dead, 33 injured in Parbat bus accident, by
Agandhar Tiwari and Prakash Baral (kp 18/01/2019)
Poor
road condition sees decline in tourist numbers
in Sankhu (kp 17/01/2019)
Siraha
road accidents kill 39 in past six months
(rep 17/01/2019)
Ride-sharing
apps
hit hurdle as state sides with taxi operators:
The recent seizure of motorbikes used by Tootle
and Pathao riders raises concerns about
letting tech companies operate unregulated ,
by Tsering D Gurung (kp 16/01/2019), Middle
of the road: Government’s reaction to
ride-hailing services should be to step in and
update laws—not restrict innovation (kp
16/01/2019) [There is
special need of insurance and tax payment
regulations!], Ride
partners perplexed as crackdown continues,
by Timothy Aryal (kp 17/01/2019), Transport
management dept rules out action against
ride-sharing services, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht
17/01/2019), Law
to regulate ride-sharing services by April,
by Timothy Aryal (kp 18/01/2019), Capitalising
on back seats: The government’s decision to lift
the ban on ride-sharing is progressive, by
Mangal Bahadur Thapa (kp 18/01/2019)
Poor
quality drives transport management department
to halt printing smart licences, by Umesh
Poudel (ht 16/01/2019)
New
‘wheel clamp’ campaign books 213 motorists in a
week: Drive implemented to lessen congestion in
the city, by Anup Ojha (kp 13/01/2019)
Locals
Build wooden bridge in Dumling, by Manoj
Badu (kp 13/01/2019)
Roads
to
nowhere: Shailung Construction holds contracts
for the maintenance of many roads in
Kathmandu Valley. But its performance on
nearly all of them has been found wanting,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 12/01/2019)
Government-approved
death traps: Road accidents are created by the
government’s neglect and lack of responsibility,
by Naresh Koirala (kp 11/01/2019)
Move
like
ants: Have you seen ants stuck in traffic?
Researches have proven that if we all drove more
like ants walk, we would experience fewer
traffic jams, by Biranchi Poudyal (rep
10/01/2019)
NC
MPs register public importance motion on road
carnage (rep 09/01/2019) [This is justified, but one
must still ask why they did not become active
when their party was in government!]
Commuters
are NOT happy with KMC ‘pick and drop’ points
(kp 08/01/2019), Commuters
bear brunt of pick-and-drop (rep 09/01/2019)
Microbus
runs over five pedestrians (ht 08/01/2018)
APF
men on standby to clear landslide debris, by
Bibhu Luitel (kp 07/01/2019)
Avoiding
road
deaths: The best way to reduce road traffic
deaths and severe injuries in Nepal is through a
safe system approach with good post-crash care,
by Amrit Banstola (rep 06/01/2019)
Construction
of Tamakoshi bridge in limbo for nine years
(ht 06/01/2019)
MPs
Criticise government for failing to deliver
(kp 05/01/2019)
80
pc
breathalysers defunct; can’t be repaired in
country: In 2014, the MTPD had bought 18
breathalysers for Rs2.4m; today, half
of them don’t work, by Anup Ojha (kp
03/01/2019), Traffic
police allocate Rs 4.1m for breathalysers,
by Anup Ojha (kp 06/01/2019)
Bridge
construction in limbo for six years (ht
03/01/2019)
Police
teams in rural areas in bid to control careless
driving (ht 03/01/2019)
Traffic
police book 1,817 rule violators on New Year’s
Eve, by Anup Ojha (kp 02/01/2019)
Construction
of roads in locality elates Chepang communities
(kp 02/01/2019)
Bhojpur-Khotang
road section being blacktopped (ht
02/01/2019)
Landslide
blocks Dhunche road (kp 01/01/2019)
Man
dies, 24 hurt in separate road accidents (kp
01/01/2019)
Traffic
police rely on social media to book rule
violators, by Anup Ojha (kp 31/12/2018)
Solar
lamps
along Singha Durbar, Bhadrakali start working
after a year: After nearly a year of lying
defunct, twenty-four solar lamps have
finally been repaired along one of the
most famous thoroughfares in the Capital, by
Anup Ojha (kp 30/12/2018) [Wow, an extremely conscientious and
competent government and administration!]
Using
public transport an ordeal for disabled people,
by Shuvam Dhungana (rep 30/12/2018)
286,922
DUI offenders booked so far (ht 30/12/2018)
Nagdhunga
tunnel delayed over contractor selection process,
by Bibek Subedi (kp 30/12/2018)
Government
to send back faulty electric buses: Supplier BYD
wants re-assessment of vehicles, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 29/12/2018)
Govt
to establish transport authority (ht
29/12/2018)
After
criticism, KMC installs ‘pick and drop’
information boards, by Anup Ojha (kp
28/12/2018)
Govt
to buy 300 electric buses for Kathmandu valley
(rep 28/12/2018), Plan
to bring 300 e-buses to city receives mixed
response: Transparency major concern for the
purchase plan worth billions (rep
30/12/2018)
Kathmandu-Tarai
Expressway: Army seeks Rs 680 million as
incentive for staff, by Rudra Pangeni (rep
27/12/2018)
City
planners sceptical about KMC’s plan to install
smart zebra crossings, by Anup Ojha (kp
26/12/2018)
Baphi
villagers rely on boats and tubes to cross Seti,
by Mohan Shahi (kp 26/12/2018)
China
to start upgrading Syabrubesi road soon, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 26/12/2018)
Pokhara’s
Bus Park to be upgraded, by Santosh Pokharel
(rep 26/12/2018)
Pokhara-Baglung
road to be closed six hours a day, by Chhabi
Lal Tiwari (rep 26/12/2018)
‘No
changes in Fast Track starting point’ (rep
26/12/2018)
Ghorahi
tense after bus kills scooterist, by Durga
Lal KC (kp 25/12/2018)
A
road to nowhere: Campaigns without proper urban
planning no solution to Capital’s traffic woes
(kp 25/12/2018)
Road
safety:
It is high time govt recognised road safety as
an issue and implemented strong regulations to
curb road accidents and save lives (ht
24/12/2018)
Lack
of publicity renders city’s ‘pick and drop’
drive ineffective, by Anup Ojha (kp
23/12/2018)
Expressway
project on track, says parliamentary team: Nepal
Army is building the shortest way from
Kathmandu to the Tarai (kp 23/12/2018)
Kathmandu’s
roads
are widening, but there’s no space for
pedestrians: The existing set-up of most of the
Valley’s streets shows there’s little concern
for pedestrians, and even where there are
sidewalks, they have been poorly built and
managed, by Arpan Shrestha (kp 22/12/2018)
16
killed in bus accident, by Durga Lal KC (kp
22/12/2018), Death
toll in Dang bus accident climbs to 23, 12
deceased identified, by Shiva Lal Subedi
(rep 22/12/2018), Polytechnic
institute mourns loss of students and teachers:
Twenty-three were killed in Friday’s bus
accident, by Durga Lal KC (kp 23/12/2018), Tragedy
in Dang should be a wakeup call (rep
24/12/2018)
Second
phase
of bridge maintenance project begins: First
phase conducted major maintenance along 17-km
bridge length and minor repairs along 10 km
(rep 22/12/2018)
Millions
of rupees being spent on installation of bridge
over Sunkoshi (ht 22/12/2018)
Valley
natives stage protest against road expansion
drive (kp 21/12/2018)
One
killed, 25 others injured in road mishap
(rep 21/12/2018)
Killer
roads claim 864 lives across Nepal in 4 months:
3,728 injured in 4,298 accidents including 1,488
severely, by Bikan K Dawadi (rep
18/12/2018), Road
safety must be a national priority (rep
19/12/2018)
Hopping
on: With ride-sharing services Tootle and
Pathao, Kathmandu’s passengers can finally ride
safe and ride cheap, by Krishana Prasain (kp
17/12/2018)
Koshi
gets alternative crossing, by Sangam Prasain
(kp 17/12/2018)
‘Pick
and drop rule’ for passenger vehicles enforced
around Tundhikhel area, by Shuvam Dhungana
(rep 17/12/2018), Public
vehicles barred from waiting at city centre
(ht 17/12/2018)
Govt
shows
flexibility towards transporters: Extends the
deadline for transport associations to switch to
company model till mid-March (ht
17/12/2018)
Dept
of roads tarmacking streets sans clearing
utility poles, pipelines, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 16/12/2018)
China
awaits design approval of second phase of Ring Road
expansion project (ht 16/12/2018)
Can
Kathmandu
ever be a cycling city? With temperate weather
and a small size, Kathmandu should be a perfect
cycle city. Instead, cycling here is difficult,
dangerous and even lethal, by Bibhu Luitel
(kp 15/12/2018)
18
dead, 16 injured in mini-truck plunge, by
Krishna Thapa (kp 15/12/2018), Nuwakot
truck crash toll reaches 20, by Krishna
Thapa (kp 16/12/2018)
Seven
dead, 12 injured in separate road accidents
(kp 15/12/2018)
Expressway
to stay on course despite Khokana protests,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 14/12/2018), SAC
orders govt to heed local complaints about
fast-track project (rep 15/12/2018)
Speeding
a norm on 'risky' BP highway, by Anil
Bhandari (rep 13/12/2018)
Rasugadhi
Hydropower Project builds road to Thuman village,
by Himnath Devkota (rep 13/12/2018)
Shanghai
group set to hand over KK road project to
Kathmandu, by Anup Ojha (kp 12/12/2018)
Public
transporters ‘must register as private companies
by Dec 16’, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
11/12/2018)
10
years on, Khaireni bridge still incomplete,
by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 11/12/2018)
Compensation
controversy affects a national pride road
project, by Bhagwati Lama (rep 11/12/2018)
Contractor
blamed for sluggish Lamosanghu-Jiri road
improvement, by Ramesh Khatiwada (rep
09/12/2018)
Roadblocks,
by Ramesh Kumar (nt 07/12/2018)
I
see you: Installing CCTV cameras on the streets
demands accountability (kp 07/12/2018)
Public
Transportation Reforms, by Narad Bharadwaj
(rn 07/12/2018)
Kathmandu
to
enforce ‘pick and drop’ rule from December 16:
City Mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya says the new
campaign aims to make Kathmandu a
traffic-congestion free city, by Anup Ojha
(kp 06/12/2018)
Chinese
company starts rebuilding Miteri Bridge in
Sindhupalchok, by Anish Tiwari (kp
05/12/2018), Tatopani
border likely to open in May, by Dhruba
Dangal (rep 06/12/2018)
State
inadequacies impede road works worth Rs 26b,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 04/12/2018)
How
a
‘dangerous’ verdict halted road expansions: 170
cases against road expansion pending at Supreme
Court, hundreds in other courts across country,
by Anjali Subedi and Rudra Pangeni (rep
04/12/2018)
6
dead in road accidents (kp 04/12/2018)
A
suspension bridge gives new lease of life to
over 15 villages, by Mithilesh Yadav (rep
03/12/2018)
Proposal
to construct provincial bus terminal in
Tilottama, by Rekha Bhusal (rep 02/12/2018)
Blacktopping
of Gulariya-Belawa road section begins, by
Nirmal Ghimire (rep 02/12/2018)
Disgruntled
minister questions tenders for 20 bridges on
fast-track road (rep 01/12/2018)
New
vehicle route system from Dec 16 (ht
01/12/2018)
Fast
Track alignment should not be changed: Nepali
Army (ht 01/12/2018)
Shake
a leg: The chronic traffic congestion in the
Kathmandu Valley can be reduced by cycling,
by Shubhechchha Bhatta (kp 30/11/2018)
13
hurt as car runs over pedestrians (ht
30/11/2018)
Six
people dead in Dailekh car accident (kp
29/11/2018)
Trees
halt construction of highway in Kailali. In
Kanchanpur 62km of Postal Highway section
remains incomplete, by Mohan Budhair and
Bhawanci Bhatta (kp 29/11/2018)
Salleri-Surkhe
road construction halted, by Kumbharaj Rai
(kp 28/11/2018)
MPs
for halting KTM-tarai fast track work until DPR
is ready (rep 27/11/2018)
Five
dead, 48 injured in Saptari bus accident, by
Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp 25/11/2018)
Mind
the road: No substantial actions have been
planned to improve air quality and road safety,
by Prashanta Khanal (kp 25/11/2018)
Citizens
grope in darkness: KMC and NEA squabble over
defunct street lights at Singha Durbar, by
Anup Ojha (kp 24/11/2018)
16
killed in Dadeldhura bus plunge, by Panta
(kp 23/11/2018), Dadeldhura
crash toll rises to 18 (kp 24/11/2018)
Nepal
razes
three bridges built by India: nepal granted
india permission to construct two wooden
bridges across mahakali river in Byas in
October. However, the indian side constructed
five bridges, by Manoj Badu (kp 23/11/2018)
Narrow
bridges cause traffic bottlenecks on Muglin
road: 18 bridges on the route needs replacement
for smooth traffic flow, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 20/11/2018)
Road
projects worth Rs 26b in limbo due to handover
delays, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
19/11/2018)
Nepal
Police rescue 7,029 women and children from
traffickers in last 5 years (kp 18/11/2018)
Plan
to install 14 portable bridges to ease city
traffic (kp 18/11/2018)
Dolpa
headquarters linked to national road network
(kp 18/11/2018)
Two
dead, 17 hurt in Dadeldhura jeep crash, by
Panta (kp 18/11/2018)
Belahiya-Butwal
road starts cracking even before completion of
project, by Mohammad Habib (rep 18/11/2018)
Most
auto drivers in Sindhuli driving without
licenses, by Anil Bhandari (rep 18/11/2018)
Road
extension around Fewa Lake risks soil deposition,
by Santosh Pokharel (rep 17/11/2018)
72pc
of accidents during festivals due to reckless
driving (kp 16/11/2018)
New
Friendship Bridge in Rasuwagadhi within 6 months,
by Himnath Devkota (rep 15/11/2018)
Four
die in road accidentsm (kp 15/11/2018)
Additional
2,400 trail bridges needed in Nepal (ht
15/11/2018)
Overpasses
to be constructed in Chabahil, Maitighar (ht
15/11/2018)
Road
rebuilding crawls as blame game continues
(kp 14/11/2018)
Residents
not happy with substandard roads, by Bhim
Chapagain (rep 14/11/2018)
3
dead in separate crashes (kp 14/11/2018)
Landslides
obstruct Kodari Highway, by Anish Tiwari (kp
13/11/2018)
New
expressway turns killer: Recently opened
Koteshwor-Kalanki road section kills nine people
in three months, by Anup Ojha (kp
07/11/2018)
Years
on, postal highway project fails to gain
momentum (ht 07/11/2018)
Ten
dead, two injured in Dolpa jeep accident, by
Bishnu Lal Budha (kp 06/11/2018)
Average
160 people die a year in Valley road accidents:
Traffic police, by Shuvam Dhungana (rep
06/11/2018)
Kathmandu
sees high numbers of vehicles; traffic
management turns challenging, by Narayan
Dhungana (rep 04/11/2018)
Registrations
resume under new numbering scheme (kp
03/11/2018)
Kathmandu-Tarai
Expressway: Khokana, Bungamati residents
complain to visiting lawmakers, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 02/11/2018)
Jogbani-Kimathanka
track opening work nears completion (ht
02/11/2018)
Construction
of motorable bridge left in limbo (ht
02/11/2018)
Electri-City
Cars: Do your bit for the ecology and economy by
switching to a battery car, and save money,
too, by Sikuma Rai (nt 02/11/208)
Blacktopping
done in hurry results in cracks within four
months, by Narhari Sapkota (rep 01/11/2018)
Fund
crunch
hits reconstruction of quake-ravaged Tatopani
road: More than three years after the
devastating earthquake, the passage to
China from Tatopani remains inaccessible by
vehicles, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 31/10/2018)
With
ban lifted in Valley, tipper trucks again taking
their toll, by Madhusudan Guragain (rep
31/10/2018), Tipper
ban lifted ‘to spur government projects’, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 01/11/2018)
Low
bids hit construction projects: Mid-Hill Highway
(Eastern) prepares to terminate contracts of
three bridge and wall projects, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 31/10/2018)
Liping
road repairs begin, by Anish Tiwari (kp
30/10/2018)
Motorable
bridge comes into operation in Bajura (ht
30/10/2018)
‘Mechanically
fit’ old vehicles likely to get permission to
operate (ht 29/10/2818)
Nijgadh-Kathmandu
Expressway:
Mismanagement leaves felled trees in limbo; The
logs have started decaying after it was
hit by the incessant rain during the
monsoon, by Laxmi Sah (kp 28/10/2018)
Cyclist’s
bid for ‘fresh air’ ends in open drain, by
Anup Ojha (kp 28/10/2018), Man
dies after falling into manhole, by Anita
Shrestha (ht 28/10/2018)
Bridge
over Mechi River yet to come into
operation (ht 28/10/2018)
Valley
roads become deathtraps: Claim 4 lives in 24
hours, by Himal Lamsal (rep 28/10/2018)
Road
accidents during Dashain rise 50pc: Nepal Police
data shows 568 road accidents took place in the
country, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
28/10/2018)
Nagma-Gamgadi
road upgrading project: Local’s rage forces
contractors to use quality materials, by DB
Budha (rep 27/10/2018)
China
begins repairing Araniko Highway, by Dhruba
Dangal (rep 26/10/2018) [Why
on earth has not Nepal itself begun and
successfully completed this important task long
ago?]
DoTM
plans GPS based vehicle tracking system (ht
26/10/2018)
New
bridge
over Trishuli River ‘80pc complete’: The project
has missed two deadlines. The first was
mid-October 2017 and the second, mid-March 2018,
by Anup Ojha (kp 25/10/2018)
Jajarkot-Dolpa
road: Army opens track for Bheri corridor,
by Krishna Prasad Gautam (kp 25/10/2018)
Construction
of six-lane road still incomplete, six years on,
by Rekha Bhusal (rep 25/10/2018)
Vendor
to print driving licences from this week (kp
24/10/2018)
E-buses
launched: Electric mobility action plan aims big,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 24/10/2018), A
Ride To The Future, by Narad Bharadwaj (rn
26/10/2018)
Govt
seeks help for DPR of six tunnel roads (ht
24/10/2018)
Holiday
travellers clog Beni-Jomsom road, by
Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 24/10/2018)
Narayangadh-Muglin
highway: Improved road already in tatters,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 23/10/2018)
Inflow
of people to Kathmandu increasing (ht
23/10/2018)
1
dead, 24 injured as mini lorry overturns in
Sindhupalchok (kp 23/10/2018)
Six
dead, 16 injured in bus accident, by Narayan
Sharma (kp 22/10/2018), Six
killed, 50 injured in Nawalparasi bus accident
(ht 22/10/2018), Three
killed in Ramechhap accident (ht
22/10/2018), 7
killed, 137 injured in separate road accidents
in one day (ht 22/10/2018), Road
fatalities during Dashain triple to 13 from last
year, by Anup Ojha (kp 23/10/2018)
DoTM
plans to reshuffle vehicle routes in Valley from
mid-December (ht 22/10/2018), Plan
for 66 new public vehicle routes in Valley
(kp 23/10/2018)
Over
2.5 million people leave Kathmandu (kp
17/10/2018)
3
family members among six dead in road accidents
(kp 17/10/2018)
Charging
ahead: Nepal needs to switch to EVs if its
agenda is to avoid losses economically and
environmentally, by Rakshya Lama (kp
16/10/2018)
Risky
travelling: The festival rush increases chances
of road accidents (kp 15/10/2018), Accidents
mar festival travel rush, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 16/10/2018)
NA
shortlists six firms to build bridges along Fast
Track (ht 15/10/2018)
Department
of Roads refuses to accept new bridge over
Bishnumati, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
13/10/2018)
Nine
killed, 63 injured in three road accidents,
by Anil Bhandari and Bhagwati Lama (rep
13/10/2018)
Exodus
continues from Kathmandu: More than 1.5 million
people head home from the Valley (kp
12/10/2018)
Morang
starts written test to check drink driving
(kp 12/10/2018)
Route
restriction lifted to ease travel rush (kp
10/10/2018)
Amend
vehicle registration process as per provincial
system: Cabinet tells govt (ht 10/10/2018)
Four
dead, 13 injured in two road accidents (rep
10/10/2018)
Find
innovation to manage Valley traffic (rep
10/10/2018)
Dashain
dash: Shoddy vehicles accident-prone: Last
season, 483 people died in 2,953 accidents,
by Chandqan Kumar Mandal (kp 07/10/2018)
Six
dead, 17 injured in Banke microbus crash, by
Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 07/10/2018)
Nepal
allows India to build 2 wooden bridges across
Mahakali River, by Manoj Badu (kp
07/10/2018)
Chyachhada
cliff hinders Hilsa-Simkot road building, by
Jaya Bahadur Rokaya (kp 07/10/2018)
Expressway
study agreement inked (kp 03/10/2018)
Repair
causes hours-long traffic jam (kp
03/101/2018)
New
luxury buses alleviate commuters’ daily ordeal,
by Anup Ojha (kp 03/10/2018)
Residents
block traffic at Kalanki, by Anup Ojha (kp
29/09/2018)
Government
mulls ‘authority’ to manage public transport
system, by Tika R Pradhan (kp 26/09/2018)
Ban
on 20-year-old vehicles deprive rural areas of
transportation, by Bhim Chapagain (rep
26/09/2018)
Postal
Highway becomes a nuisance due to delay in
completion, by Mithilesh Yadv (rep
26/09/2018)
Lack
of road compels Sertung locals to transport
goods on mules, by Sarita Shrestha (rep
25/09/2018)
Citizens
suffer every night as over 24 street lights fail,
by Anup Ojha (kp 24/09/2018)
Project-control
issue
stalls 1,500 road works Impasse continues as
Kathmandu controls projects while
provincial governments hold budget (kp
24/09/2018) [Leading
politicians of the central level are still
trying to prevent the implementation of
federalism!]
Bridge
project delay affects Lalima residents (kp
14/09/2018)
Police
book over 1,000 traffic rule violators (kp
23/09/2018)
Locals
put their sweat and money to repair road, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 23/09/2018)
DPR
for road link to China set to be revised, by
Himnath Devkota (rep 23/09/2018)
No
road expansion at ABC foot trail for next 30
years, by Santosh Pokharel (rep 23/09/2018)
Pappu
Construction
violates approved design in four bridges:
Infrastructure Ministry’s study reinforces
growing concerns over quality of projects
handled by the firm, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 22/09/2018), Pappu
delay
disrupts local life and trade: Pappu has been
accused of missing the deadline on 25 bridge
construction deals, out of a total of 41
construction contracts, by Arjun Rajbanshi
(kp 22/09/2018)
Transport
strike hits normal life in Mahottari, Bara
(kp 20/09/2018), Transport
strike paralyses country: Police fire bullets
and lob teargas canisters during clash with
drivers in Achham (kp 21/09/2018), Transport
operators refuse to open festival ticket booking
(kp 21/09/2018), Drivers
end
strike after deal: Eight-point agreement calls
for drivers’ release, legal amendments, vehicle
tests and road reforms, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 22/09/2018), Government,
agitating drivers ink deal to resume
transportation services (rep 22/08/2018), Dashain
bookings
start after nod to fare hike: Committee to
review and suggest systematic fare adjustment
for public vehicles within two months, by
Arpan Shrestha and Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
23/09/2018)
Korean
firm wins bid to make expressway DPR, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 20/09/2018)
DoR
to instal traffic lights at seven places (ht
20/09/2018)
Expressway
project is a test of country’s leadership:
Pokharel (kp 19/09/2018)
Army
proposes two more tunnels along expressway, will
cost Rs 5 billion extra, by Rudra Pangeni
(rep 19/09/2018), Nepal
Army must exercise transparency (rep
20/09/2018), Project
report delay won’t hit
expressway works, says Army (kp 21/09/2018),
DPR
will be ready in four months: Nepal Army
(rep 21/09/2018), Experts
advised more tunnels: Nepal Army: Additional
tunnels to cost Rs 4.29 billion (rep
22/09/2018)
Demolition
of illegal structures along BP Highway begins,
by Madhusudhan Guragain (rep 18/09/2018)
Arniko
Highway neglected after closure of trade route
with China, by Dhruba Dangal (rep
18/09/2018)
Postal
road project: Works progress at a snail’s pace
(kp 17/09/2018)
Locals
risking their lives due to delay in bridge
construction, by Upendra Yadav (rep
16/09/2018)
Beni-Jomsom
road ‘unsafe’, by Hari Krishna Gautam (rep
15/09/2018)
Negligence
by Pappu and Kancharam makes Rajbiraj-Kunauli
road miserable, by Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep
15/09/2018)
Of
roads and revenue: Despite raising billions in
taxes from the use of infrastructure and on
vehicles, the annual budget for the repair,
maintenance and improvement of the Valley’s
roads remains inadequate, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 12/09/2018)
Landslides
block Narayanghat-Mugling road at several places,
by Sabita Shrestha (rep 12/09/2018)
Mainstream
electric
vehicles with law: Nepal urgently needs an
electric vehicle policy and infrastructure to
cope with rapid development of EVs and to reduce
air pollution and oil import, by Subhechchha
Bhatta (rep 11/09/2018)
Dashain
becomes
a bargaining chip: Transport entrepreneurs
refuse to open advance bookings for the festival
until government unfreezes their bank accounts,
by Sanjeev Giri and Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
10/09/2018) [Not the
rule of law and free market economy shall be
enforced but syndicates and corruption!?]
Right
of way: The road expansion did not help
motorised transport much, instead it actively
harmed pedestrians, by Pranaya SJB Rana (kp
10/09/2018)
Small
vehicle imports surge despite mass
transportation push: e-rickshaw imports up 549
percent (rep 10/09/2018)
Pedestrians
flee as sewage floods city streets, by Anup
Ojha (kp 08/09/2018)
Lack
of bridge makes road 'useless' for locals,
by Bhagishwar Limbu (rep 08/09/2018)
Miteri
bridge in fragile state (kp 07/09/2018)
Transport
syndicate: Bus operators want bank accounts
unfrozen; Booking delayed for Dashain trip,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 06/09/2018)
Plan
to
build 14 highway rest places for drivers: Each
rest place to cost Rs 450,000; Government
releases Rs 6.3 million; Three rest places for
Province 2 (kp 06/09/2018)
Bridge
constructed in Sindhuli well before deadline,
by Anil Bhandari (rep 06/09/2018)
Poor
state of road affects tourist inflow (kp
05/09/2018)
Karnali
Highway: More hassles than relief (rep
05/09/2018), Authorities
'indifferent' to pathetic condition of Karnali
Highway, by Pabitra Kumar Shahi (rep
07/09/2018)
Never-ending
projects: Road construction is locked in a
perpetual cycle of incompetence (kp
05/09/2018)
Kathmandu-Tarai
Expressway: Nepal Army yet to find consultant
for DPR, by Binod Ghimire (kp 04/09/2018)
Kathmandu
road repair: ‘Over 60 percent’ of PM’s orders
unheeded (kp 04/09/2018) [What about the separation of
powers and responsibilities under them federal
system? KMC should be responsible fpr the repair
of Kathmandu roads!]
Darchula
residents use risky Tuin to cross Mahakali River,
by Manoj Badu (kp 04/09/2018)
The
Naubise-Nagdhunga ‘nightmare’, by Sarita
Shrestha (kp 04/09/2018)
Rural
Road Maintenance, by Hari Bahadur Thapa (rn
03/09/2018)
Rasuwagadhi
road to reopen from Monday, by Himnath
Devkota (rep 03/09/2018)
Nepal,
China
to study Tatopani border: Move to revive customs
office; Dry port construction picks up pace with
50 percent of Customs building, warehouse and
parking complete; The project will build a
border inspection building, cargo warehouse,
litigation-warehouse, a parking lot with a
capacity of accommodating at least 158
large containers and 33 cars (kp
02/09/2018)
Prithivi
Highway faces routine obstruction from mudslides,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 02/09/2018)
With
bridge left incomplete, road linkage seems
distant for Chepang villages, by Naraharii
Sapkota (rep 02/09/2018)
Summit
Affects Public Travel: Public, urban planners
slam government, by Nayak Paudel (kp
01/09/2018)
Road
connectivity promotes agro products of Jumla,
by DB Budha (rep 01/09/2018)
Road
obstructed for past two months (ht
01/09/2018)
Odd-even
rule
hinders daily life: Traffic was brought to a
grinding halt to facilitate the VIP motorcades
which added to the public’s woes, by Anup
Ojha (kp 30/08/2018)
Plastic
roads: The way forward?, by Vikash Raj
Satyal (ht 30/08/2018)
For
two-wheelers, lane means nothing, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 29/08/2018)
Commuters
fume as KMC closes Khula Manch for four days
(kp 29/08/2018)
‘Recklessness
main cause of Valley road accidents’ (kp
27/08/2018)
Department
of Roads develop software to monitor contractors
(kp 27/08/2018)
Deplorable
road
affects Nagarkot entrepreneurs: Local
bussinessmen blame Shailung Construction for the
sharp decline in tourist numbers, by Anup
Ojha (kp 26/08/2018)
Say
no
to syndicate:The decision to end syndicate was
right and just but the government did not have a
concrete plan to implement it, by Ashish
Gajurel (rep 26/08/2018)
Province
3
wants to build tunnel road on its own: The cost
of the national pride project has gone up due to
delay in construction (ht 25/08/2018)
Reforming
Public Transportation, by Hira Bahadur Thapa
(rn 24/08/2018)
Metropolis
to issue tender for mutli-storey parking (kp
24/08/2018)
Daytime
road repair causing huge traffic jams, by
Diya Dhakal and Deepanjali Khadka (rep
24/08/2018), Odd-even
vehicle movement for three days (kp
25/08/2018) [Unbelievable
procedures for a handful of foreign visitors:
Nepali citizens first!]
Tripureshwor-Kalanki-Nagdhunga
road expansion: Watchdog slams agencies for
delays (kp 23/08/2018)
Landslides
and floods disrupt Kodari Highway, by Anish
Tiwari (kp 22/08/2018)
Bridge
swept away in Bahrabise Bazaar (kp
20/08/2018)
Monsoon
further deteriorates Postal Highway, by
Arjun Oli (rep 20/08/2018)
Rasuwagadhi
trade route remains shut due to bridge damage,
by Himnath Devkota (rep 19/08/2018), Nepal-China
road link severed: Transportation disrupted
along Pasang Lhamu Highway after floods damaged
a bridge, by Krishna Thapa (kp 20/08/2018),
1,200
container trucks stranded in Kerung, by
Balaram Ghimire (kp 22/08/2018), Trishuli-Betrawati
traffic resumes (kp 22/08/2018), Rasuwa
residents decry authorities’ delay in opening
obstructed road (kp 24/08/2018), Repair
works of Raswuagadhi route begins, by
Himnath Devkota (rep 26/08/2018), Division
office starts repairing Dhunche-Syaphrubeshi
road (kp 28/08/2018)
Renewing
My Driving License, by Siddhi B Ranjitkar
(km 20/08/2018)
Nepal’s
maiden underpass to start operation in Kalanki
today (ht 17/08/2018), Kalanki
underpass opens for public, by Anup Ojha (kp
18/08/2018), Drivers,
commuters, police delighted by the opening of
underpass at Kalanki, by Biken K Dawadi (rep
22/08/2018), Traffic
jams resume as Kalanki subway closes (kp
23/08/2018) [??]
Ahead
of BIMSTEC, govt begins repairing capital roads,
by Deepanjali Khadka (rep 17/08/2018) [It is a crime to continue to
improve roads that are in relatively good
condition for foreign state guests, instead of
repairing the roads used daily by the local
population and destroyed for years because of
the laying of water pipes!]
Need
for introducing International Driving Permit
stressed (ht 17/08/2018)
Auto
registration exceeds three-million mark (ht
17/08/2018)
Beni-Jomsom
road closed after being severely damaged by
flood and landslides, by Hari Krishna Gautam
(rep 16/08/2018)
India
grants Rs 470m for Postal Highway Project
(kp 15/08/2018)
Process
to appoint contractor for Nagdhunga tunnel
starts (kp 15/08/2018)
High-tech,
low-emission
buses replace micros: The total cost of the
project is $22.37 million, with the Nepal
government contributing $7.9 million (kp
14/08/2018), All
aboard: Introduction of the high-tech,
low-emission buses could help reduce pollution
(kp 15/08/2018)
Sarcastic
Thapa
demands different hotels for BIMSTEC delegates:
Thapa said that such move would help repairing
the potholes overnight just to please the
visiting delegates (rep) [Great idea! Another option
would be to move the government quarter and the
houses of the politicians to the outskirts of
the city, where the streets have been destroyed
years ago by the administration/government! That
this situation has not improved is another
"achievement" of the Oli govt!]
Reckless
negligence: 'Tree ambush' on a blacktopped road,
by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal and Pushpa Raj Joshi (rep
14/08/2018)
Mid-Hills
Highway: Delays dog Diktel-Halesi road section:
Black-topping still incomplete despite multiple
deadline extension, by Daman Rai (rep
13/08/2018)
Koteshwor,
Kalanki road project ‘nears completion’ (kp
13/08/2018)
Delay
in repairing subsided road hampers traffic,
by Sabita Shrestha (rep 13/08/2018)
Death
rides
a bike in the Valley: More than 60 percent of
all accidents in Kathmandu Valley either involve
motorcyles or scooters, by Anup Ojha (kp
12/08/2018), Seven
people die every day in road accidents in Nepal
(kp 12/08/2018)
28
households of Hungi at risk of displacement due
to haphazard road construction, by Mukti
Prasad Neupane (rep 12/08/2018)
Discussions
to
be held on reopening Tatopani route: After the
Tatopani-Khasa overland route was closed, a
major portion of Nepal-China trade is being
conducted through Kolkata port (kp
11/08/2018)
Where
sidewalk ends: People, not vehicles, should be
allowed to reclaim the urban environment (kp
10/08/2018)
Government
plans to build underpass at New Baneshwor
(kp 09/08/2018)
Four
die in highway collision (kp 09/08/2018)
Kathmandu
roads
get a facelift ahead of key summit: Authorities
get the urge to plug potholes whenever major
international events happen, by Sanjeev Giri
(kp 08/08/2018) [In
order to welcome Nepalese citizens and the much needed
tourists, the govt and administration should better
repair the numerous city roads that have been destroyed
years ago, instead of repairing smaller
road damages in the inner city only to impress
foreign politicians!]
Disasters
and Road Safety, by Gokul Pokhrel (rn
08/08/2018)
Apply
the brakes: The govt must act strict and not
free errant drivers after they pay a fine
(kp 07/08/2018)
Rural
roads: Repaired in winter but unfit for monsoon,
by Bhim Chapagain and Bhagiswar Limbu (rep
07/08/2018)
Thapa
calls for contract termination of
under-performing companies (kp 06/08/2018)
Govt
to
gather data on tuin crossings: The ministry is
also preparing to survey places in the country
where a suspension bridge has to replace tuin
immediately (kp 05/08/2018), Rivers
without bridges: The govt move to replace wire
bridges is a welcome step, but it should walk
the talk (kp 06/08/2018)
Khalanga
landslips halt traffic, 48 homes at risk, by
Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 05/08/2018)
Damaged
bridge isolates Rasuwagadhi (kp 05/08/2018)
Monks
take initiative to fill the potholes of
Bauddha-Jorpati road, by Shyam Rai (rep
05/08/2018)
Landslide
Halts traffic on Pasang Lhamu Highway (kp
04/08/2018)
BP
Highway facing risk (ht 03/08/2018)
Global
tender
for Nagdhunga tunnel this month: DoR; The tunnel
way project has two components: Construction of
a 2.45-km tunnel from Basnetchhap to Sisne
Khola, and a 2.6-km approach road from
Basnetchhap to Thankot (kp 02/08/2018)
Three
dead in lorry crash (kp 01/08/2018)
Rampant
increase in accidents in valley, by Bikan K
Dawadi (rep 31/07/2018)
Work
of upgrading postal road picks up pace (ht
31/07/2018)
Timure
bridge to be repaired urgently (kp
30/07/2018)
Kalanki-Nagdhunga
road: Mahaseth warns contractor: Irate residents
vent anger and frustration on minister during
site visit (kp 29/07/2018), Govt
tells
contractor to blacktop Kalanki-Nagdhunga road by
Aug 28: To appeal SC order to pay compensation
before beginning road expansion work; Prime
Minister KP Oli is seriously dissatisfied with
Minister for Physical Infrastructure and
Transportation Management Raghubir Mahaseth for
failing to improve the state of roads in the
Valley (rep 29/07/2018)
Damage
to
bridge halts traffic on Rasuwagadhi, Syaphrubesi
road: The local administration has banned all
vehicles from crossing the 51-metre bridge
(kp 29/07/2018)
Eight
killed, 17 injured in bus-truck collision,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 28/07/2018)
Separate
lanes for light and heavy vehicles on
Bhaktapur-Koteshwar road, by Kamal Raj
Bhatta (rep 28/07/2018)
Police,
rickshaw operators clash in Bharatpur, by
Ramesh Kumar Poudel (kp 26/07/2018), 2
protesters, 14 police injured in protest by
three-wheelers, by Sabita Shrestha (rep
26/07/2018)
Chabahil
to
Sankhu road: Crews lay hume pipes on both sides
of road: Department of Roads leaves disputed
areas while asphalting road (kp 25/07/2018)
‘Operating
tippers at night riskier’, by Krishna Kisi
(rep 25/07/2018)
Police
start using radar guns on Prithvi Highway,
by Shreehari Poudel (rep 25/07/2018)
Officials
smell rat in decision to entertain transporters’
liabilities (rep 24/07/2018)
Bridges
construction on Postal Highway delayed (rep
24/07/2018)
Cable
barriers installed at Muglin-Naryangadh road to
prevent crashes, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
23/07/2018)
'Tunnel
transportation system necessary for Karnali's
development' (rep 23/07/2018)
Three
killed in two road accidents (rep
23/07/2018)
NA
proposes change to Fast Track alignment (ht
21/07/2018)
Outer
Ring Road construction process halted (ht
21/07/2018)
282
transport firms listed after end to syndicate:
Order fails to make company registration
mandatory, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
21/07/2018), Transporters
get five more months to come under Companies Act
(rep 21/07/2018), Govt
sets mid-Jan deadline for registration of
transport firms (kp 24/07/2018)
Children
in Province 7 still rely on tuins to go to
school (rep 21/07/2018)
Parks,
not parking lots: Exemplary community effort to
restore open space gives hope for a greener
Kathmandu, by Duksangh Sherpa (nt
20/07/2018)
Vehicle
emission test: Govt to make test mandatory in
metros from next month (kp 20/07/2018)
Heavy
vehicles back on BP Highway, by Raj Kumar
Karki (kp 20/07/2018)
Seven
people die in jeep accident (kp 19/07/2018)
Pappu
Construction faces blacklist threat, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 19/07/2018)
Roads
that don’t meet criteria increasing landslide
risk in Okhaldhunga district (ht 19/07/2018)
Bridge
in limbo as contractor company, workers flee
project site in Panchthar (19/07/2018)
Traffic
police clamps time-card on heavy vehicles and
lane order (kp 18/07/2018)
Road
classrooms teach traffic lessons for free:
Jaywalkers learn rules as road safety drive
begins (kp 17/07/2018)
Heavy
vehicles on left lane only on Jagati-Koteshwar
road from today, by Biken K Dawadi (rep
17/07/2018)
NOC
completes
locking system on tanker fleet: In a bid to
control fuel theft and leakage en-route, NOC had
started installing security locking systems four
months ago, by Ajit Tiwari (kp 16/07/2018)
Traffic
police start campaign against jaywalking, by
Bikan K Dawadi (rep 16/07/2018)
Kathmandu
Ring Road improvement: DoR waits on China to
begin 2nd phase of road project (kp
15/07/2018)
Managing
urban traffic, by Keshav Bhattarai (rep
15/07/2018)
Transport
operators block vehicles on BP Highway, by
Anil Bhandari (rep 15/07/2018), Sindhuli
businessmen
protest prohibition on heavy vehicles; On June
4, the SC had ordered the authorities concerned
to only allow 10-tonne goods carriers and
18-seat passenger vehicles on BP Highway (kp
16/07/2018)
Tipper
kills teen in Kalimati (kp 15/07/2018), Accidents
involving tippers unabated in capital (rep
15/07/2018)
Landslide
obstructs Kodari Highway (kp 14/07/2018)
Jeep
crash leaves 5 dead, 8 injured (kp
14/07/2018)
CCTV
cameras come in aid to track traffic rules
violators, by Bikan K. Dawadi (rep
14/07/2018)
Rain
affects vehicular movement (kp 13/07/2018)
Licence
to kill: Govt needs to rein in trucks running
amok on streets leaving a trail of carnage
(kp 13/07/2018)
Ministry
bans tippers during day in the Valley (kp
12/07/2018)
Where
rivers flow: Bouddha residents see lighter side
of life during monsoon ordeal on roads (kp
12/07/2018)
New
Narayangadh-Muglin road cracks and sinks from
the edge (kp 12/07/2018), 20
meters of Narayanghat- Mugling road subsides 1
foot, by Sabita Shrestha (rep 12/07/2018)
Okhaldhunga
rural roads in sorry state (ht 12/07/2018)
‘Transport
syndicate a thing of the past’ (ht
12/07/2018)
Mid-hills
Highway in a sorry state, by Giriraj Baskota
(rep 11/07/2018), Where
is the progress? Sorry state of Mid-hill Highway
(rep 12/07/2018)
What
delayed the construction of Nepal's first arc
bridges?, by Biken K Dawadi (rep 11/07/2018)
Haphazard
road construction destroying unique heritages
(ht 11/07/2018)
Vehicles
obstructed after bridge collapse (ht
10/07/2018)
Month
into
operation recently widened Narayangadh-Muglin
road cracks up: Consultant engineer Pushkar
Regmi says a simple repair is not going to fix
the damaged road, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (kp
09/07/2018)
When
will this pit get repaired?, by Diya Dhakal
(rep 09/07/2018)
Traffic
police seek installation of traffic lights in
Pokhara, by Dhan Basnet (rep 09/07/2018)
After
Khokana, Bungamati protests expressway works,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 08/07/2018)
Hilsa-Simikot
road construction set to resume soon, by Jay
Bahadur Rokaya (kp 08/07/2018)
Govt
constructing six-lane highway without arranging
diversion, by Pushparaj Joshi (rep
07/07/2018)
20
workers killed in Mustang truck accident, by
Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 07/07/2018), Slow
rescue work blamed for high death toll, by
Santosh Pokharel and Dinesh Subedi (rep
08/07/2018),
Govt
to provide Rs 500,000 relief to tipper accident
victim families (rep 10/07/2018), Woman
lost all 4 offspring in Mustang tipper truck
crash, by Dinesh Subedi (rep 11/07/2018), Deadly
roads: Death of workers in tipper accident
(rep 11/07/2018), Province
to provide Rs 50,000 to family of each tipper
accident dead, by Bishan Chhetri (rep
12/07/2018)
Nepal-China
tibet trade facilitation committee meeting:
China for conducting field study to reopen
Tatopani (kp 08/07/2018)
6
Indian nationals die in jeep crash (kp
04/07/2018)
Home
Ministry’s action spurs DoR to act against tardy
contractors, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
03/07/2018)
Careless
drivers, negligent government: 10 percent
increase in road accidents involving 2 wheelers,
by Biken K Diwadi (rep 03/07/2018)
Roads
in Kathmandu resemble waterways during monsoon,
by Diya Dhakal (rep 03/07/2018)
Road
linking Rajbiraj airport in sorry state (ht
03/07/2018)
Govt
to initiate study for more tunnel roads (kp
02/07/2018)
Govt
shows flexibility to transport bodies (ht
02/07/2018)
Living
in an unjust city: Democracy is measured by the
state of the sidewalk, not the number of wide
roads, by Prashanta Khanal (kp 01/07/2018)
Narayangadh-Mugling
road: Work halted at three landslide-prone areas
(ht 01/07/2018)
Top
court bans vehicles more than 10 tonnes on BP
Highway (kp 30/06/2018)
No
Valley entry from July 17 for vehicles failing
pollution test (rep 30/06/2018)
NC
cadres plant rice saplings on muddy road (ht
30/062018)
SC
puts brake on road expansion (kp 30/06/2018)
Solukhumbu
car crash kills seven people (kp 30/06/2018)
Risky
roads, by Swasti Gautam (rep 29/06/2018)
Payment
delay
‘stalls 800 bridges’: Contractors complete
88 bridges; Department of Roads and Finance
Ministry spar over meagre budget, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 28/06/2018)
Daily
landslides plague travelers on
Mugling-Narayanghat road: 314 big and small
landslides occurred during last year, by
Sabita Shrestha (rep 28/06/2018)
Causeway
collapses within 10 days of construction, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 27/06/2018)
Construction
of bridge over Mardi River in full swing, by
Kisan Sangeet Nepali (rep 27/06/2018)
Stray
animals a serious threat to commuters' safety,
by Biken K Dawadi (rep 26/06/2018)
Kathmandu-Nighgard
fast track construction IL&FS claims Rs
2.37bn compensation for DPR (ht 25/06/2018)
Women
crew ensure traffic flows in rains, by
Pratap Bista (kp 24/06/2018)
Pedalling
through perdition: Cycling could be the way to
go for a cleaner and greener Kathmandu, by
Dipendra Gautam (kp 24/06/2018)
Time
card to be implemented along Muglin road (ht
23/06/2018)
KMC
to track public vehicles using GPS (kp
22/06/2018)
2,318
killed in road accidents in 11 months (rep
22/06/2018)
Majority
of transport bodies yet to get registered at OCR
(ht 22/06/2018)
Roads
Dept readying to invite tender for tunnel
(kp 21/06/2018)
Decision
to ban larger vehicles on BP Highway challenged
in court (rep 20/06/2018)
Deluge
turns Bouddha road into a ‘paddy field’ (kp
19/06/2018)
Landslide
threat looms over Liping, Tatopani, by Anish
Tiwari (kp 19/06/2018)
Pokhara
Lakeside no more a no-vehicle zone, by
Santosh Pokhrel (rep 19/06/2018)
Kathmandu-Tarai
expressway project: Nepal Army shortlists six
firms to prepare DPR (kp 17/06/2018)
Budget
crunch affects construction of road (ht
17/06/2018)
Govt
halts road works for monsoon (kp 16/06/2018)
Truck-microbus
collision kills 4 people in Chitwan (kp
16/06/2018)
Poor
rescue mechanism causing more casualties,
property loss on highways (ht 14/06/2018)
Govt
vows to issue over 300,000 driving licences by
mid-August (kp 13/06/2018)
Transportation
cost still the same despite end of syndicates
(rep 13/06/2018)
Locals
face the brunt due to delay in blacktopping
roads (rep 11/06/2018)
Narayangadh,
Mugling road facelift soon (kp 10/06/2018)
Automobile
mechanics urged to repair vehicles responsibly
(ht 10/06/2018)
Kalanki-Koteshwor
road project: Authority extends deadline third
time, by Anup Ojha (kp 09/06/2018)
Task
force starts work to resolve transport issues
(kp 08/06/2018)
Five
dead, eight hurt in separate road accidents
(kp 08/06/2018)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road opens 24 hours, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(kp 07/06/2018)
Once
quiet, Kathmandu is honking again!, by
Dilasha KC (rep 06/06/2018)
Majority
of city vehicles fail emission standards:
Results show 422 diesel and 231 petrol vehicles
cross permissible levels, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 05/06/2018)
Paving
Paradise: Do we really need another highway in
the ecologically fragile Chure range? (kp
05/06/2018)
Kathmandu-Tarai
expressway: Defence minister-led panel to steer
project (kp 04/06/2018)
Ban
sought on 32-seater buses on BP Highway (ht
04/06/2018), Locals
dissatisfied with govt decision to allow heavy
vehicles on BP Highway, by Anil Bhandari
(rep 04/06/2018), SC
orders govt to bar heavy vehicles from BP
Highway (kp 05/06/2018), Heavy
vehicles
defy top court, ply BP Highway: Bus service
providers and crusher operators have allegedly
co-opted local administrations to ensure the
apex court’s order is not enforced, by Raj
Kumar Karki (kp 08/06/2018), No
entry for heavy vehicles on BP Highway, by
Raj Kumar Karki (kp 09/06/2018), Heavy
vehicle ban on BP Highway hits supply of
petroleum products, construction materials
(ht 11/06/2018), Transport
entrepreneurs stage protest in Ramechhap (ht
15/06/2018), Ramechhap
businessmen protest heavy vehicles’ ban on BP
Highway (kp 17/06/2018)
Mahaseth
working to lift ban on 20-yr-old vehicles
(rep 04/06/2018) [??]
Four
years
on, Kamalbinayak-Nagarkot road construction
still incomplete: Construction company has
already received three deadline extensions
(rep 04/06/2018)
258
youths killed in valley road crashes in three
years (ht 03/06/2018), Deaths
on
roads: Despite sharp rise in number of accidents
and deaths, we are still too slow to recognise
road safety as an issue (ht 04/06/2018)
Traffic
Police vow to enforce reforms: Division to
implement 82-point Home Adminstration Reform
Plan (kp 02/06/2018), Traffic
cops to treat hit-and-run cases more seriously
(ht 02/06/2018)
Tall
in
the saddle: Even today, horses are cherished
associates of Kathmandu’s traffic police and
remain indispensable for managing traffic in a
heavily congested city, by Abijeet Pant (kp
02/06/2018)
Fast
track construction a whole new ball game for
Nepali Army, by Jagdishor Panday (ht
02/06/2018)
12
dead, 15 hurt as bus plunges 150m in Palpa
(ht 01/06/2018), 14
killed, 9 injured in Palpa bus accident, by
Madhav Aryal (kp 02/06/2018)
Green
activists slam Chure road plan, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 01/06/2018)
Villagers
build 6km long road selling wives’ ornaments,
by Jagat Khadka (rep 01/06/2018)
Postal
Highway project unlikely to meet Feb 2019
deadline, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 31/05/2018)
Four
killed, seven injured in jeep-plunge in
Dadeldhura (ht 30/05/2018)
Doti
jeep crash kills 4 people (kp 30/05/2018)
About
time: Wider roads will mean nothing if it
threatens people (kp 29/05/2018)
Experts
question the logic behind one more highway in
Chure area, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
29/05/2018)
14
bridges to be built with World Bank loan (kp
29/05/2018)
Four-wheeler
imports surge by twofold, by Shankar Acharya
(kp 28/05/2018)
Kalanki
subway ‘to open on June 29’, by Anup Ojha
(kp 27/05/2018)
Mailung-Syaphrubesi
road section closed for safety reason (kp
27/05/2018)
Ring
Road part ‘death trap’, by Anup Ojha (kp
26/05/2018)
230,511
people of Province 7 still rely on tuins to
cross rivers, by Pushparaj Joshi (rep
26/05/2018)
Commuting
in
a lawless country: The proof of the pudding is
in the eating. It will not be long before we
know if this ‘government of the proletariat’
will bring about changes to a public transport
sector mired with greed and misconduct, by
Mohan Guragain (kp 26/05/2018)
Right
to the streets: They are building roads that
connect cities, and not city streets that
connect people, by Barsha Chitrakar (kp
25/05/2018)
Policing
traffic chaos: Traffic police should persist
with the campaign against offenders (kp
25/05/2018)
3
killed as truck hits scooter in Bhaktapur
(kp 24/05/2018)
Work
halted after ward chair thrashes project
engineers (ht 24/05/2018)
KMC
to start digital parking (kp 24/05/2018)
Mugling-Narayanghat
contractors seek deadline extensions, by
Sabita Shrestha (rep 23/05/2018), Govt
to probe Muglin road construction delay (ht
23/05/2018)
Highway
named after late communist leader, by Umesh
Poudel (ht 22/05/2018)
Contractors
continue making sub-standard road in Rautahat:
Locals, by Madan Thakur (rep 22/05/2018)
NA
hands over track to north, by Balaram
Ghimire (kp 21/05/2018), Shortest
route to Rasuwagadhi opens (ht 21/05/2018)
Bridges
replace Dhading’s risky tuins, by Sarita
Shrestha (rep 21/05/2018)
Traffic
police get tough on rule violators (kp
21/05/2018), Police
start taking action against overloaded passenger
vehicles: Public vehicles violating traffic
rules to be fined up to Rs 3000 (rep
21/05/2018)
Taxis
without billing system face action (ht
21/05/2018), Police
crack down on taxis plying sans invoice printers
(kp 22/05/2018)
Road
accidents kill five and injure 15 people (kp
20/05/2018)
Road
construction elates Chure area locals in Siraha
(ht 20/05/2018)
A
road is changing life of Jumla residents, by
DB Buda (rep 20/05/2018)
MTPD
helpline receives around 35,000 complaints on
traffic rules violation (ht 20/05/2018)
Ministry
transfers
official who crushed bus cartels: Motive
questioned as Transport Department DG Rupnarayan
Bhattarai is recalled (kp 19/05/2018) [Step to safeguard syndicates
and corruption??], Government
tightens
noose on public transport committees: Ministry
seeks info on properties that go to state
coffers after mid-July (kp 20/05/2018), Minister
Mahaseth denies
politics in DG Bhattarai’s transfer (kp
23/05/2018) [What else?],
Former
DoTM DG Bhattarai back at MoPIT again (ht
29/05/2018)
Traffic
police book over 500 taxi drivers, by Anup
Ojha (kp 19/05/2018)
Dhobikhola
Corridor turns into illegal car park (kp
19/05/2018)
Muglin
road
contractors ask for another 40 days: The
deadline for the first section ended on May 10
while the deadlines for the second and third
sections will expire on May 20 and 30
respectively (kp 18/05/2018)
Govt
preparing to hike traffic fine by up to 600 per
cent (ht 18/05/2018)
Govt
cranks up heat on transport committees (kp
17/05/2018)
City
to buy five modern road cleaning machines
Kathmandu Metropolis receives 7 bids for
broomers (kp 16/05/2018)
Bus
falls in ditch injuring 50 people (kp
16/05/2018)
Only
300 20-year-old public vehicles de-registered,
by Ayam Shrestha (rep 15/05/2018)
Over
150 operators register as company (kp
14/05/2018)
Road
accidents on the rise (ht 14/05/2018)
5
people die in Pyuthan bus crash, by Giru
Prasad Bhandari (kp 14/05/2018)
Bagmati,
Dhobikhola bridge work crawls: Department of
Roads official says contractors cite excuses for
the delays (kp 13/05/2018)
Koteshwor-Kalanki
stretch: Road expansion to complete only after
monsoon (kp 11/05/2018)
No
city for cyclists, by Sewa Bhattarai (nt
11/05/2018)
Kalanki
subway ‘to open around end of June’: Kathmandu
Ring Road Improvement Project engineer says 95
percent work complete, by Anup Ojha (kp
09/05/2018)
Ending
the Syndicates, by Narayan Upadhyay (rn
09/05/2018), Govt
starts process to form task force, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 10/05/2018), Minister
vows to end cartels and put in jail its
supporters (kp 10/05/2018), Transport
Syndicates Giving In, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
10/05/2018)
Govt
eliminates cartels: Transport minister announces
decision of dialogue with bus operators (kp
08/05/2018), Transport
entrepreneurs
pen five-point pactIt envisions ending all
syndicate-related activities in domestic
transportation sector, by Sujan Dhunbana (ht
08/05/2018)
Company
vows better services at GongabuBus commuters
welcome Lhoste company’s new approach (kp
08/05/2018)
Indian
firm seeks Rs3b for expressway DPR, by Bibek
Subedi (kp 08/05/2018)
Transport
strike flops: Route permits revoked n Key
transport federation official in police net,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 05/05/2018), Government
to
freeze strikers’ bank accounts: Anti-Money
Laundering Dept asked to probe assets of bus
operators; Anti-Money Laundering Dept asked to
probe assets of bus operators (kp
05/05/2018), Govt
strikes
back at striking transporters: To probe their
assets; Route permit of vehicles that stayed off
the roads to be suspended (ht 05/05/2018), Dozens
held for striking in favour of transport
syndicate (ht 05/05/2018), Transport
operators freed on compliance promise, by
Chandan Kumar Mandl (kp 07/05/2018)
Govt
plans
tender call to blacktop Mailung road: The
highway to China links Galchhi, Trishuli and
Rasuwagadhi and is 82 km long. The department
said it would initiate the public procurement
process to appoint a contractor within three
weeks (kp 04/05/2018)
Pathlaiya-Birgunj
road-widening drive halted (ht 04/05/2018)
20k
electric rickshaws imported in last fiscal
(kp 04/05/2018)
Kathmandu-Bhaktapur
Trolley Bus: (Born: 1975, Allowed to die: 2009),
by Peter Francon-Smith (nt 04/05/2018)
Construction
of Birgunj-Pathaliya six-lane road in limbo,
by Upendra Yadav (rep 03/05/2018)
‘Govt
firm against syndicate’ (ht 02/05/2018), Supporters
of transport cartel keen for talks with
authority (kp 03/05/2018), 50
companies
defy syndicate’s strike call, to continue
services: The DoTM has confirmed that necessary
security arrangements have been made in
conjunction with the District
Administration Office for the transport
companies to ply their bus services in all 77
districts, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
04/05/2018)
Mugling-Narayanghat
road:
Why earlier bid was terminated: Termination
incurred a loss of Rs 1 billion and a time
overrun of one year, by Rudra Pangebi (rep
02/05/2018)
KTM-Tarai
fast track: 17 firms apply for expressway DPR
(kp 01/05/2018)
4
die in separate road accidents (kp
01/05/2018)
Nepal-B’desh
will be linked by tunnel way’ (kp
30/04/2018) [???]
Children
at higher risk of road accidents (ht
30/04/2018)
Narayanghat-Muglin
project: Highway project cost to jump by Rs 320m
(kp 28/04/2018), Narayanghat-Mugling
road likely to miss yet another deadline, by
Sabita Shrestha (rep 29/04/2018)
Global
bids
to be called for Nagdhunga tunnel: The tunnel
and approach road are expected to cut travel
time over the mountainous route from Nagdhunga
to Naubise, the main gateway to Kathmandu
(kp 28/04/2018)
Transport
entrepreneurs line up to register their firms at
OCR (ht 26/04/2018), Stay
the course: Govt’s early move to break transport
cartel should continue (kp 27/04/2018), Ending
the Transport Syndicate, by Kushal Pokharel
(rn 28/04/2018)
Humla
to be linked with road connectivity under UK
govt’s Rural Access Programme (ht
25/04/2018)
Transport
syndicates collect fees illegally, by
Bhushan Yadav (kp 24/04/2018)
Next,
taxis ‘will have to register as company:
’Transport minister vows crackdown on all
cartels (kp 24/04/2018),
Is govt overlooking syndicate in cab services?,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 24/04/2018)
Kathmandu-Tarai
expressway: Govt to form mechanism to facilitate
project (kp 24/04/2018)
Police
apprehend five men for attacking Mayur driver
(kp 24/04/2018)
Firms
garaging buses to lose permit, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 23/04/2018), Fuel
transporters back off from protests (ht
23/04/2018)
End
of transport syndicate can bring down price of
daily consumables, by Rudra Pangeni (rep
23/04/2018)
Illegal
road being built in the dark (ht 23/04/2018)
Luxury
buses
dominate East-West highway route: These buses
feature a wide assortment of entertainment
options from leD TVs, ACs and Wifi. They are
also starting to allocate special seats for
differently-abled people, women and old people
(kp 21/04/2018)
Newly
installed traffic lights go kaput (ht
20/04/2018)
Stray
cattle menace haunts motorists (ht
19/04/2018)
Public
transport operators not yet in tax net:
Registration as companies is expected to widen
net (rep 19/04/2018), Scrapping
transport
syndicate to bring ‘billions’ under tax net:
Annuala transactions in public transport sector
stand at over Rs 200 billion (ht 21/04/2018)
Mid-sized
buses to ply Gongabu-Sinamangal road from
mid-June, by Ayam Shrestha (rep 19/04/2018)
Makeshift
bamboo bridge collapses, locals hit (ht
19/04/2018)
Drive
it
off: As the government has already initiated
against syndicate in transport sector, it now
must work to end cartels in others sectors as
well (ht 19/04/2018)
Kanti
Highway upgrade likely to finish by Oct, by
Pratap Bista (kp 17/04/2018)
Transporters
to protest govt move to end syndicate in the
sector (ht 17/04/2018), No
renewal, listing of transport committees (kp
18/04/2018), Govt
moves against cartels, not to renew transport
committees, by Ram Saran Tamang (rep
18/04/2018), Transport
syndicate threatens to halt service, by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 18/04/2018), Five
transport forums to defy govt crackdown on
cartels (kp 19/04/2018), Transporters
announce
protest activities: Govt to freeze bank accounts
of those halting public transportation services;
Drivers, co-drivers not to participate in
transporters’ strike (ht 19/04/2018), MoHA
warns against transport strike (ht
19/04/2018), Transporters
announce
series of protests: If the transport
entrepreneurs halted their services, the
government plans to commandeer the vehicles and
operate them using security personnel, by
Ram Saran Tamang (rep 19/04/2018), Transport
committees show ‘signs of retreat’, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 20/04/2018), Bus
owners use political nexus: Rift among
entrepreneurs n Govt ‘firm’ on action, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 21/04/2018)
Regulator
defers plan to ban vehicles (kp 15/04/2018)
Govt
may reroute expressway if it fails to acquire
land in Khokana (kp 15/04/2018)
Police
issue 1,949 tickets to drivers on NY weekend
(kp 15/04/2018)
Wide
roads do not A Great city make, by Pranaya
SJB Rana (kp 14/04/2018)
Short-cut
to Rasuwagadhi: The new route to China border
from Kathmandu is just 122 kilometers, by
Himnath Devkota (rep 14/04/2018)
Govt
to review routes, route permits for public
vehicles (ht 14/04/2018)
DoR
to build Chure Highway in 10 years (ht
14/04/2018)
Distribution
of smart driving licences to resume next week
(ht 13/04/2018)
Kalanki
underpass ‘will be ready in two months’, by
Anup Ojha (kp 12/04/2018)
Driving
syndicate off: More needs to be done, by
Ramesh Ghimire (ht 10/04/2018), Plan
to
end transport monopoly: Home Ministry proposes
not renewing registration of transport
entrepreneurs’ committees from next fiscal
(kp 11/04/2018), Opening
the market: Government move to break transport
cartels is welcome but it needs to sustain its
campaign (kp 12/04/2012)
8
killed in separate road accidents (kp
10/04/2018)
Motorable
road reaches remote Khadang village in Dolpa
(kp 10/04/2018)
Competition
promotion board fails to curb cartels, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 09/04/2018), DoTM
opens route permits across country (ht
09/04/2018)
Construction
of North-South highway moves ahead swiftly,
by Madhav Aryal (kp 08/04/2018)
Nagdhunga
tunnel one step closer to construction (kp
07/04/2018)
Expressway
report bids open on April 12 (kp 06/04/2018)
Roads
Dept seeks Rs2b loan to build 14 bridges, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 06/04/2018)
Postal
Highway design draws flak from locals, by
Pawan Yadav (kp 06/04/2018)
Five
new firms get permits to ply buses on Dhulikhel
route, by Anup Ojha (kp 05/04/2018), Govt
stands tough against cartel on Arniko Highway:
While the cartel intensifies its protest and
shuts down operations along Arniko Highway, the
government awards permits to other transport
services operating the same route, by Ram
Saran Tamang (rep 05/04/2018), Bus
syndicate retreats after tough govt action,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 06/04/2018), Govt
set
to act against transport syndicate: Route permit
issued to eight new transport firms along
Kathmandu-Banepa road section (ht
06/04/2018), Route
permits
across country open to all: The recently amended
Transport Management Directives-2004 allows any
company to get route permits in any parts
of the country, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
07/04/2018)
Suspension
bridges in want of repairs (ht 04/04/2018)
Sewer
job
makes mess of inner Old Baneshwor areas:
Residents complain of mobility hindrance,
damaged water pipeline and pollution (kp
03/04/2018)
Road
upgradation
project grounds to a halt in Birgunj: The JV of
Sharma, Diwa and United Builders has gone rogue
with no work done in last three months, by
Shanker Acharya (kp 02/04/2018)
China
to open Kimathanka, Olangchungola border points
(ht 02/04/2018)
Khokana
locals stage protest (ht 02/04/2018)
‘Contractor
used sub-standard blacktopping materials’
(ht 02/04/2018)
Beni-Jomsom
road closed for 8 hrs a day, by Ghanashyam
Khadka (kp 01/04/2018)
Postal
Highway
contractor goes rogue, works stalled: Ganapati
Construction Service has shown lacklustre effort
with no work done in the last one month, by
Kamal Panthi (kp 01/04/2018)
Upgradation
of Syabrubesi road to begin in August (kp
31/03/2018)
Mayur
Yatayat faces trouble for lowering
transportation fare, by Madhusudhan Guragain
(rep 31/03/2018), Bus
cartels face tough sanctions (kp
01/04/2018), Registration
at DoTM must to avail new vehicle route permits:
Stern action to be taken against those promoting
syndicate (ht 02/04/2018), Syndicates
obstruct transportation on Araniko Highway,
by Madhusudhan Guragain (rep 03/04/2018), Banepa
residents scatter transport cartel: Bus owners
plan to block traffic fails, by Anup Ojha
(kp 03/04/2018), In
right
gear: Government’s new rule to drive off the
syndicate system, which has been the bane of
country’s transport sector, is a welcome move
(ht 03/04/2018), Bus
committees to halt transport service protesting
DoTM decision (ht 04/04/2018), As
transport cartel intensifies protests, Mayur
Yatayat holds its ground (rep 04/04/2018)
Bus
crash
kills 2 and injures 45: Police say the bus
belonging to Dakshinkali Yatayat crashed at
Bhanjyang-3 after one of the front wheels came
off (kp 30/03/2018)
President's
motorcade wreaks havoc (rep 30/03/2018) [Just like royal behaviour on
the shoulders of the citizens!!]
Byas
residents
demolish beam bridges built by India: Indian
authorities had built eight rudimentary bridges
over the Mahakali river in Darchula without
consent from the Nepali side, by Manoj Badu
(kp 29/03/2018)
Locals
stage protest against road expansion: Six
injured as protesters clash with cops; Vehicles
vandalised (ht 29/03/2018), Hear
them out: The state must pay heed to locals and
conservationists and exercise restraint while
dealing with peaceful protest (ht
30/03/2018), Crackdown
on anti-road expansion protesters (nt
30/03/2018)
Smart
traffic lights go on trial run in city (kp
28/03/2018), Traffic
lights go kaput a day after being inaugurated
(ht 30/03/2018)
Construction
of
high-tech fuel stations in limbo: Nepal Oil
Corporation has so far issued 30 licences to
build so-called ‘model petrol pumps’ (ht
27/03/2018), Step
on
the gas: nOC must ensure that those who have
obtained permits to set up high-tech fuel
stations complete construction on time (ht
28/03/2018)
Siraha
locals hopeful of timely completion of Hulaki
Rajmarga, by Mithilesh Yadav (rep
27/03/2018)
Jet
boat service started in Saptakoshi (ht
26/03/2018)
Police
set up patrols to catch speed demons on Ring
Road (kp 25/03/2018)
Fast
track alignment should be changed: AHRC (ht
25/03/2018)
The
end
of an era: Internal combustion engines had a
great run over the years, but now they are being
outstripped by electric vehicles, by Parash
Deep Subedi (kp 25/03/2018)
2,000
houses in Janakpur face wrecking ball (kp
25/03/2018)
Two
Panchthar roads to be blacktopped (ht
24/03/2018)
Muglin
road project gets three-month extension (kp
23/03/2018), ‘Muglin
road to be ready by May’ (kp 26/03/2018)
Road
project fails to gather momentum (ht
22/03/2018)
Lakeside
all set for no-vehicle plan, by Deepak
Pariyar (kp 18/03/2018), Lakeside
area to be made ‘no-go zone’ for vehicles:
Vehicles would not be allowed in the area from
Hallan Chowk to Barahi Chowk (ht 22/03/2018)
Postal
Highway project in Tarai slows to crawl, by
Santosh Singh (kp 17/03/2018)
‘Green
sticker' mandatory from mid-April (ht
16/03/2018), Vehicle
exhaust test, green sticker to go nationwide
(kp 17/03/2018)
Electrifying
transport: How near, or far, we are, by
Devendra Adhikari (ht 16/03/2018)
Narayanghat-Muglin
road project faces cost overrun, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (kp 15/03/2018)
Road safety becoming a challenge for Karnali
Highway, by DB Budha (rep 14/03/2018)
Transport
entrepreneurs to defy decision removing old
vehicles (ht 12/03/2018), 20-year-old
public vehicles to be banned from tomorrow
(ht 14/03/2018), Ban
on vehicles older than 20 years kicks in (kp
15/03/2018), A
timely move: The aged vehicles belonging to
private and the government should also be phased
out to bring vehicular emission level at a
permissible limit (ht 15/03/2018), 59
old vehicles booked (kp 16/03/2018), Ban
on old vehicles hits eastern hill districts,
by Bhim Chapagain (rep 16/03/2018), Transport
officials book 79 old buses (kp 18/03/2018)
17,700
tempos registered in Fiscal Year 2016/17: Number
is higher than total registrations over past 28
years, by Kushal Basnet (rep 12/03/2018)
Letter
to Lal Babu Pandit, by Prem Thapa (rep
11/03/2018)
Khokana
residents
protest against Kathmandu-Tarai Expressway:
Brigadier General Gokul Bhandari says Nepal Army
will not leave any stakeholder behind in this
project and create a win-win situation for all,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 08/03/2018), Khokana
residents
blame govt for displacing Newars:
Conservationists agree the infrastructure
projects affect heritage and religious sites,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 11/03/2018), Listen
to the people: Projects to jumpstart growth are
important, but socio-cultural sensibilities
mustn’t be hurt (kp 12/03/2018), Locals
of Khokana, Bungmati oppose expressway project
(ht 14/03/2018)
Sajha
rolls out disabled-friendly bus in the Valley,
by Anup Ojha (kp 08/03/2018)
Butwal-Narayanghat
road improvement plan held up, by Navin
Poudel (kp 08/03/2018)
Alternative
to
street-widening: It is unfortunate that while
elsewhere in the world people are advocating for
ways to create walkable neighborhoods, we are
bulldozing our already existing footpaths,
by Supriya Joshi (rep 07/03/2018)
Craving
clean
air: There is a need for regular vehicle
emission checks and automated traffic signals:
simply banning old vehicles won’t do, by
Kanchan Mani Dixit (kp 07/03/2018)
Some
Tanahun villages still rely on tuin, by
Shreehari Paudel (rep 06/03/2018)
Govt
prepares
to fire two contractors of Kanti Highway: Amar
Construction and Sunkoshi Biruwa SL are likely
to default on their promise of blacktopping two
road segments within mid-July, by Pratap
Bista (kp 05/03/2018)
DoR
building
7 bridges in Bardiya: Construction of bridges
are under way in Bhada, Man, Barbardiya,
Lathuwa, Ambasa, Kaligaudhi and Surajpur areas
of the district, by Kamal Panthi (kp
04/03/2018)
Accidents
up on roads not opened to traffic (ht
04/03/2018)
Nagdhunga-Naubise
tunnel: Govt to publish global tender for tunnel
way project (kp 04/03/2018)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road expansion: Contractors set to go for
controlled blasting, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(kp 04/03/2018)
Confessions
of
a Kathmandu cyclist: The social and economic
validation motorised vehicle owners receive in
society unfortunately does not translate into
civility and courtesy on the roads, by
Sanjay Sharma (kp 03/03/2018)
Construction
of Olangchung Gola Highway begins, by Ananda
Gautam (kp 02/03/2018)
Traffic
police book over 1,100 rule violators (kp
02/03/2018)
2
Chinese firms show interest in Outer Ring Road
Project, by Anup Ojha (kp 02/03/2018)
Naubise-Mugling
road to be widened, by Bibek Subedi (kp
02/03/2018)
Project
cost escalation bane of country’s development
(kp 02/03/2018)
Imported
vehicles to meet Euro IV norms (ht
02/03/2018)
Valley
records 105 deaths in road accidents in six
months (ht 28/02/2018)
Government
to crack down on vehicles breaching emission
limits from April 14 (ht 28/02/2018)
Bus-truck
collision leaves one dead, 29 injured (kp
24/02/2018)
Syabrubesi
road upgrade slated to start in Oct, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 24/02/2018)
Roads
being built without EIA (ht 24/02/2018)
Bridges
in need of urgent repair in Bara (ht
24/02/2018)
Best
foot
forward: The vehicular ban in Thamel and Asan is
making the streets more walkable and vibrant. It
has also come as an accidental boon for the
seasonal porters in the area, by Abijeet
Pant (kp 24/02/2018)
Supreme
Court halts distribution of embossed vehicle
number plates (ht 23/02/2018)
Over
200,000 await digital driving licenses since
months, by Kushal Basnet (rep 22/02/2018)
Larcha
bridge topples weeks before opening, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 21/02/2018)
Tuin
Crossings Still Exist In Nepal, by Nandalal
Tiwari (rn 19/02/2018)
NEA
in
bid to have more vehicle charging stations:
Country’s first EV charging station has been set
up at power utility’s central office (kp
18/02/2018)
Tackling
traffic troubles: Will new measures prove to
have a lasting effect on resolving perennial
transportation problems?, by Anupama Angbo
(ht 18/02/2018)
Road
safety compromised by haphazard divider
placement, by Arjun Oli (rep 18/02/2018)
Bajura
road to be blacktopped soon, by Arjun Shah
(kp 18/02/2018)
Transport
entrepreneurs demand halt to entry of overloaded
vehicles (ht 18/02/2018)
Road
to
nowhere: They will tell you it is a universally
acknowledged truth that better roads lead to
economic prosperity. That prosperity might come
at a cost, a premium even, but so does most
other things, by Sandesh Ghimire (kp
17/02/2018)
Postal
Highway: Saptari locals halt survey work amid
land issues, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp
16/02/2018)
Reckless
driving of tippers blamed for increasing road
mishaps, by Madhusudan Guragain (rep
13/02/2018)
Delay
in bridge construction affecting Mid-Hill
Highway work in Jajarkot, by Janak KC (rep
12/02/2018)
Trend
of
automobile ownership: Whether automobiles are
purchased for necessity or flaunting, it
suggests that the purchasing power of Nepalis is
increasing, by Naresh Neupane (kp
11/02/2018)
Kathmandu-Tarai
expressway: Army cuts 14k trees to build
expressway, by Pratap Bista (kp 11/02/2018)
Vehicular
movement to be halted for six hours on
Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi road, by Bhagawati Lama
(rep 11/02/2018)
India
delays road upgradation process, by Mohan
Budhayer (kp 11/02/2018)
Trishuli
bus crash victim found (kp 10/02/2018) [The
accident had happened on 28 October 2017]
Muglin-Narayangadh
road
project deadline to be extended: The road
carries the heaviest traffic in the country,
account-ing for 90 percent of Nepal’s total
international trade traffic (kp 10/02/2018)
Two-wheelers
to get embossed number plates from Feb 13
(ht 10/02/2018)
Ring
Road project mulls design audit (kp
09/02/2018)
Sajha
plans e-bus pilot run in two months, by Anup
Ojha (kp 07/02/2018), Electric
buses could cut Nepal’s fuel bill by up to 90pc,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 07/02/2018)
Smoke
screen: Though banning old vehicles welcome,
promotion of public transportation is the
long-term answer (kp 07/02/2018)
Sajha
unveils disabled-friendly bus, by Anup Ojha
(kp 07/02/2018)
Countrywide
ban on vehicles older than 20 yrs from Mar 15,
by Anup Ojha (kp 06/02/2018)
Nagdhunga
tunnel report to be ready this month, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 06/02/2018)
Access
to transport: Seats reserved for women and
persons with disability are often occupied by
strong and able-bodied women and men, while sick
and elderly have to stand, by Meenraj
Panthee (rep 06/02/2018)
‘Kalanki
underpass will be ready in 5 months’ (kp
04/02/2018)
KMC
vows to clear stray animals from city roads
(kp 03/02/2018), Holy
strays: Rescuing abandoned cattle from the
streets will require innovative and local
initiatives, by Abijeet Pant (kp 03/02/2018)
China
asks removal of poles from Ring Road (kp
01/02/2018)
Work
on Mid-hill Highway bridges stalled since years,
by Janak KC (rep 01/02/2018)
Widening
of Syabrubesi highway to begin in Oct, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 31/01/2018)
Valley’s
youths come out in force to protest worsening
traffic jams, by Anup Ojha (kp 30/01/2018)
Citizens
hail opening of Tamor corridor (kp
30/01/2018), Tamor
corridor track opens connecting hills with
plains (ht 31/01/2018)
Delay
in Sunkoshi Bridge construction: Just one
foundation pillar built in the past five years
(rep 30/01/2018)
Piece
of history: Kalopul bridge demolition plan irks
locals (kp 29/01/2018)
Road
dusts, a nuisance in Panchkhal-Dhulikhel
section, by Madhusudan Guragain (rep
29/01/2018)
Ten
die in separate road accidents in past 24 hours
(kp 28/01/2018)
Kaligandaki
road corridor set for upgrade, by Prakash
Baral (kp 28/01/2018)
Politicians
flout
rules to build road: Under the direction of
political leaders, 471 trees have been felled so
far to link Dhansar Bridge with
Jungle-shaiya, by Pawan Yadav (kp
28/01/2018)
Narayangadh-Munglin
section to be closed during day from today,
by Anup Ojha (kp 27/01/2018)
Track
opens for Mailung-Syabrubesi road section,
by Balram Ghimire (kp 27/01/2018), Mailung-Syafrubesi
road to come into operation in April, by
Himnath Devkota (rep 27/01/2018)
Katari-Ghurmi
road in neglect (ht 27/01/2018)
Rural
connection: In northern Gorkha, two
state-of-the-art cantilever pathways (bridges)
are changing lives, by Utsav Shakya (kp
27/01/2018)
Skilled
manpower crunch hits construction of bridges
(ht 27/01/2018)
Better
Road And Civic Sense, by Shyam KC (rn
24/01/2018)
Progress
on construction of Nagarkot road snail-paced
(ht 24/01/2018)
Road
connectivity elates locals of Tipling, by
Sarita Shrestha (rep 24/01/2018)
Call
for measures to curb road deaths: Four dead in
Salyan bus accident, by Biplab Maharjan (kp
23/01/2018)
Road
connects Bajhang, Bajura headquarters (ht
23/01/2018)
Rasuwagadhi
highway set to be upgraded, by Bibek Subedi
(kp 23/01/2018)
Lack
of traffic lights adding to street chaos (ht
21/01/2018)
Muglin-Narayangadh
road may be closed during day (ht
20/01/2018)
Accidents
along BP Highway on the rise (ht 19/01/2018)
Online
system adopted for driving licence (ht
19/01/2018)
Kathmandu-Tarai
fast
track: Army to have own DPR for expressway;
Nepal Army says the detailed project report
prepared by an Indian consultant was incomplete
(kp 17/01/2018)
Jajarkot-Dunai
road nears completion, by Janak Nepal (kp
17/01/2018)
Four-wheelers
barred from city core, by Anup Ojha (kp
17/01/2018), Clearing
the air: No longer choked by pollution, perhaps
the Capital’s historical appeal will be
rejuvenated (kp 18/01/2018)
Dangerous
Roads, Lurking Traps, by Prem Khatry (rn
16/01/2018)
Overloaded
tippers turn road into eye-sore (ht
16/01/2018)
Blacktopping
begins at Tripureshwar -Kalimati road section,
by Sanghamitra Subba (rep 16/01/2018)
Jajarkot
section of Mid-Hills Highway in sorry state,
by Janak KC (rep 16/01/2018)
Village
council chief among 6 dead in car crash (kp
15/01/2018)
Road
connects Panchami Bazaar to Diktel in Khotang
(ht 15/01/2018)
Government
to encourage use of e-vehicles: The government
has also reduced customs tariff for import of
e-vehicles (ht 14/01/2018)
Mugling
road expansion hits snag (ht 14/01/2018)
Poor
vision due to fog increases road mishaps, by
Yogesh Rawal (rep 14/01/2018)
Irregularity
rife in Hulaki Rajmarg construction (rep
14/01/2014)
Construction
of Nagdhunga-Naubise road tunnel in offing
(ht 13/01/2017)
Car
ban
in Capitals’ core areas from Tuesday: Four-wheel
vehicles, except those on emergency and
essential services, barred entry at 12 places in
the city between 7am and 7pm (kp 12/01/2018)
Meterless
taxi drivers protest in Pokhara (kp
11/01/2018)
Core
city areas no-go zone for four wheelers (ht
11/01/2018)
4
dead in road accidents in Nawalparasi and
Mahottari (kp 10/01/2018)
Biratnagar-Kimathanka
trilateral road project’s disheartening progress,
by Hari Adhikari (ht 10/01/2018)
Lack
of motorable bridge affects trade, tourism in
Jhulaghat, by Bira Gadal (rep 10/01/2018)
Mahure-Phoksingtar
road
finally getting blacktopped: Foundation stone
for project was laid by Prime Minister Man Mohan
Adhikari in 1994 (rep 08/01/2018)
Sajha
urged to extend bus service to Godawari (kp
07/01/2018)
Okhaldhunga
people elated with suspension bridge
construction (ht 07/01/2018)
Road
construction gathers pace in areas surrounding
Lumbini, by Amrita Anamol (kp 07/01/2018)
New
road connects Bajhang, Bajura, by Basanta
Pratap Singh and Arjun Shah (kp 07/01/2018)
Kamal
Binayak-Nagarkot road in sorry state for last
nine months (ht 06/01/2018)
DoR:
Will blacktop 80km Valley roads in five months,
by Anup Ojha (kp 05/01/2018)
A
pressing concern: Problems with traffic
congestion can be mitigated if all stakeholders
make an effort to fulfil regulatory obligations,
by Ananda Bahadur Shrestha (kp 05/01/2018)
Rajbiraj
locals against construction of Postal Highway
(ht 04/01/2018)
Toll
tax on most road sections from next fiscal,
by Sabin Mishra (ht 03/01/2018), Road
to
safety: If the money collected from toll tax is
utilised well to maintain and repair roads, this
can hugely increase the safety of passengers
(ht 04/01/2018)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road to be closed for six hours at night (ht
03/01/2018)
Fast
track may be delayed over DPR (kp
02/01/2018)
Army
opens 66 km track in Karnali Corridor, by
Pabitra Kumar Shahi (rep 02/01/2018)
Tardy
progress on six-lanehighway in Dhangadi (ht
02/01/2018)
E-vehicle
charging: Valley armed with 4 more stations
(kp 02/01/2018), Plugged
on: NEA now runs four charging stations, but
more EVs for public transport still needed
(kp 03/01/2018)
Sunkoshi
bridge not completed yet (ht 01/01/2018)
Construction
of Mechi bridge hits snag (ht 31/12/2017)
Bridge
over Karnali River replaces risky ferry trips,
by Khamma Khatri (rep 28/12/2017)
Pashupati
area: No-vehicle zone (kp 27/12/2017)
Bridge
building in limbo (ht 27/12/2017)
Reopen
Tatopani:
Built in the 1960s the 115-km long highway
catered as a lifeline for Nepal to connect
China’s Tibet and, the Tatopani customs point
used to handle trade worth billions of rupees
(ht 27/12/2017)
Parked
fuel tankers pose risk of highway accidents,
by Hari Adhikari (ht 27/12/2017)
Cargo
movement blocked in protest over pollution
(kp 26/12/2017)
Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi
road:
Only 10 percent of road works completed so far;
The 82-km road links the border transit to
Kerung in China through Mailung (kp
25/12/2017)
Biratnagar-Khandbari-Kimathanka
road project: Road works stall due to recurring
dispute, by Dipendra Shakya (kp 25/12/2017)
Bailey
bridge installed over Sunkoshi River (ht
25/12/2017)
NEA
introduces e-vehicle charging station in Capital
(kp 24/12/2017)
30pc
solar street lights in Bhaktapur non-functional
(ht 24/12/2017)
Two
killed, three injured in separate road accidents
(ht 23/12/2017)
Nepali
Army begins process to construct expressway to
Tarai (ht 22/12/2017)
Much-delayed
Postal Road project gains momentum (kp
21/12/2017)
KTM-Hetauda
project:
Highway project lacks explosives to progress;
nepal Army, a year and half ago, had agreed to
supply 5 tonnes of explosives for the
construction but the army has not delivered the
explosives, by Pratap Bista (kp 21/12/2017)
Valley
likely to get smart traffic lights soon (ht
21/12/2017)
Multistoried
parking lot at New Road planned (kp
20/12/2017)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road: Contractors fined for delay (kp
19/12/2017), Third
upgradation deadline unlikely to be met (ht
21/12/2017)
MTPD
starts queue system for passengers boarding
public vehicles (kp 18/12/2017)
RFID
gates to be installed at Valley’s entry points
(ht 18/12/2017)
Govt
to ban 20-year-old public vehicles from
mid-March (ht 18/12/2017)
‘Semi-floor’
bus
operation within a month: Sajha; The bus will be
helpful particularly for
different-ly-abled people, women, children and
the elderly (kp 17/12/2017)
8
years on, road construction still incomplete,
by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 17/12/2017)
MoH
proposes free treatment for people injured in
road accidents (ht 17/12/2017)
Bridge
construction in Udayapur at a snail's pace,
by Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep 17/12/2017)
Mid-hill
highway project: Pokhara-Baglung road section
gets underway, by Agandhar Tiwari (kp
16/12/2017)
Roads
cover only 7.72 per cent ofmunicipal area in
Kathmandu (ht 16/12/2017)
DoTM
to make emissions test mandatory, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 16/12/2017)
Private
vehicles required to get embossed number plates
within this fiscal (ht 15/12/2017)
Authorities
pilot smart traffic light project at two places,
by Anup Ojha (kp 13/12/2017)
2nd
phase of ring road expansion: Field study report
to be submitted within a mth, by Bibek
Subedi (kp 09/12/2017)
MoF
yet to release budget to reconstruct bridges
(ht 09/12/2017)
Only
10 pc work of Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi road completed,
by Bhagwati Lama (rep 06/12/2017)
Transport
in Kathmandu: Fixing fallacies, by Nishan
Kafle (ht 05/12/2017)
Progress
of road projects dismal in first four months,
by Dilip Poudel (rep 05/12/2017)
Adamghat-Chautara
road track opens after 25 years of effort
(ht 04/12/2017)
Pace
of blacktopping upped in Valley to contain dust:
DoR, by Anup Ojha (kp 03/12/2017)
Vehicle
imports up nearly 8pc (by Shankar Acharya
(kp 03/12/2017)
Nations
pledge to take action for improved road safety
(ht 02/12/2017)
KMC
clean-up drive for dust, dirt and grime free
streets (kp 01/12/2017), Warning
against unauthorised digging of roads, footpaths
(kp 01/12/2017)
Bus
plunges into Trishuli; 8 dead: Police rescue 22
passengers including a six-month-old baby boy
(kp 30/11/2017)
KMC
plans
new structures to ease traffic congestions: The
metropolis is holding talks with the DoR on
building one underpass and two overhead
crossings, according to Mayor Shakya, by
Anup Ojha (kp 26/11/2017)
#Khotang’s
8-yr wait for bridge ends: the 120-metre-long
structure is expected to serve as a lifeline,
by Dambar Singh Rai and Kumbha Raj Rai (kp
25/11/2017), Commodity
prices fall after Dudh Koshi bridge opens,
by Dambar Singh Rai (kp 02/12/2017)
KMC
steps up drive to make roads dust-free (kp
25/11/2017)
Over
1.5 lakh awaiting smart driving licences, by
Sujan DDhungana (ht 23/11/2017)
CIAA
tells MoPIT to ease traffic congestion in
Kathmandu Valley (ht 22/11/2017)
PDC
drags feet in procuring DPR of KTM-Tarai
Expressway, by Sabin Mishra (ht 22/11/2017)
8
killed, 34 wounded in road accidents (kp
13/11/2017)
Oh
no, not again: Drastic measures are needed to
prevent the highways from turning into a death
zone, by Ashish Gajurel (kp 07/11/2017)
Driver’s
negligence
tops list of road accident causes; Experts,
however, say while blaming human error, state must
pay heed to bad roads and poor infrastructure,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 03/11/2017)
Cops
told to step up crackdown on drink-driving (ht
03/11/2017)
Bridge
the gap: Govt needs to hold concerned on a tight
leash for timely bridge and road repair (kp
01/11/2017)
Road
to nowhere: Govt needs to identify key reasons for
road accidents; implement effective
regulations (kp 30/10/2017), Tragic
accident:
all drivers operating public vehicles or passenger
buses must undergo refresher training and
psychological counseling every year (ht
30/10/2017)
7
killed, 6 injured, 2 missing in Gulmi micro bus
accident (ht 30/10/2017), 4
dead, 5 hurt as jeep plunges 500m onto river
channel in Udayapur (ht 30/10/2017)
Speeding
bus plunges into Trishuli; 31 dead, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 29/10/2017), Dhading
bus plunge: Driver out of contact, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 30/10/2017)
Authorities
plan to make Capital’s core heritage sites
visitor-friendly, by Anup Ojha (kp 28/10/2017)
Mugling-Narayanghat
road section: Vehicle movement may be halted
during day (ht 28/10/2017)
Biratnagar
road project in limbo: BMC to blacklist the
contractor if the work is not started right after
Chhath (ht 27/10/2017)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road widening work to resume (ht 26/10/2017)
SC
orders roads dept to leave Limbu sacred stones
untouched (rep 26/10/2017)
KMC
earmarks Rs 800m for fixing potholes (ht
25/10/2017)
Killer
drains of Pokhara, by Bharat Koirala (ht
25/10/2017)
Proper
repair of Valley roads only after Melamchi project
concludes (ht 24/10/2017)
No-vehicle
rule enforced in Thamel, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 23/10/2017), Vehicle-free
Thamel a big respite for tourists, by Anup
Ojha (kp 26/10/2017), Pedestrian
pass: Freeing Thamel’s narrow alleys of
traffic will rejuvenate its historical appeal
(kp 27/10/2017), Walk
the
talk: Residents of Kathmandu, the Tarai and
Chitwan could have their lives shortened by as
much as four years because of foul air, by
Kunda Dixit (nt 27/10/2017)
New
plan for embossed number plate system: DoTM sends
proposal to Cabinet to distribute new plates under
provincial structure (ht 23/10/2017)
One
dies, another critical in Darchula jeep accident
(kp 22/10/2017)
NEA
to
take lead to promote electric vehicles: Says will
start by installing charging stations at
different parts of Kathmandu in the first phase,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 20/10/2017)
7
killed, 24 injured in separate road accidents
(kp 20/10/2017)
DoTM’s
Bhaktapur trial centre starts operation, by
Anup Ojha (kp 15/10/2017)
Illegal
structures along Mugling-Kotre road to be
demolished (ht 15/10/2017)
High-way:
With
the opening of the Besisahar- Chame Sadak,
Manang is witnessing an unprecedented boom in
tourism, but concerns over safety continue to
loom large, by Bhim Ghimire and Aash Gurung
(kp 14/10/2017)
Govt
gives okay to buy DPR for expressway, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 14/10/2017), Govt
to buy DPR of Fast Track from IL&FC, by
Sabin Mishra (ht 14/10/2017), Nepal
Army
permitted to purchase DPR after negotiation:
Proposed price of Rs 600 million much higher
than other complicated projects (rep
14/10/2017), NA
inagurates first project camp in Makkhu Besi
(kp 19/10/2017)
Govt
set to ease licence procurement process for
heavy vehicles (kp 14/10/2017)
The
myth
of public transport profitability: Even if it
runs at a loss, good urban transport makes a
metropolis efficient and dynamic, by Kanak
Mani Dixit (nt 13/10/2017)
Jam
at Naubise road leads to death of bus crash
victim, by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp
12/10/2017), Naubise-Nagdhunga
traffic snarls a nightmare for commuters, by
Sarita Shrestha (rep 12/10/2017)
8,700
Valley taxies fitted with automated billing
machines (rep 12/10/2017)
Israeli
tourist dies in Manang SUV crash, 10 others
injured (kp 10/10/2017)
Locals
vent their ire against sluggish road repair,
by Janak KC (rep 10/10/2017)
Eight
years on, construction of Bajura bridge still in
limbo (ht 07/10/2017)
Landslides
affect transportation along Prithvi Highway,
by Mukti Prasad Nyaupane (rep 07/10/2017)
2
killed, 40 injured in bus accident, by Arjun
Bhushal (rep 07/10/2017)
Munglin
bridge delay troubles travellers, by Anup
Ojha (kp 06/10/2017)
Dilapidated
suspension bridge risks travelers' life, by
Daman Rai (rep 06/10/2017)
Chepang
road gets the go-ahead from govt, by Harihar
Singh Rathore (kp 06/10/2017)
Alternative
route to Narayangadh-Muglin road to be built (ht
06/10/2017)
Landslide
obstructs 6km stretch of Siddhartha Highway in
Palpa, by Madhav Aryal (kp 06/10/2017)
Bridges
over Karnali River at risk of collapse (ht
06/10/2017)
Experts
welcome plan tabled at Parliament to ban fossil
fuel-run vehicles by 2027, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 05/10/2017) [This
will not even be possible in the most developed
countries!], Fuel
for the future: Policymakers now recognise air
pollution is grave enough to warrant a response
(kp 06/10/2017)
Landslide
obstructs Siddhartha Highway, hundreds of
passengers stranded, by Madhav Aryal (kp
01/10/2017)
Two
killed in separate road accidents (kp
30/09/2017)
Sidda
Baba Road obstructed, hundreds of passengers
stranded (rep 30/09/2017)
18
bridges to be built along Narayangadh-Mugling
road section (kp 29/09/2017)
22
kindred injured in Dailekh bus accident (ht
28/09/2017)
Eight
killed in road accidents in Kavre (kp
27/09/2017)
Prithvichowk
island removed overnight to ease traffic
congestion, by Santosh Subedi (rep
27/09/2017)
Beni-Jomsom
Highway reopens after six days, by Hari
Krishna Gautam (rep 27/09/2017)
Sajha
adds Bungamati-Budhanilkantha route (kp
26/09/2017)
Landslide
obstructs Ridi-Tamghas road, by Ghanashyam
Gautam (kp 26/09/2017)
NEA
to
promote electric vehicles: Power utility calls
tender to instal charging stations in major
cities to encourage people to shift to EVs
(ht 24/09/2017)
Homeward
bound: The future towards a competent travel
network depends upon the government and
transport entrepreneurs, by Anupama Angbo
(ht 24/09/2017)
More
people picking BP Highway over Thankot: Poor
shape of Muglin stretch, Kalanki congestion
among the causes, by Anup Ojha (kp
24/09/2017)
3
killed as landslide buries car, truck (kp
24/09/2017)
Parking
at Tundikhel for festival shoppers (kp
23/09/2017)
Three
killed, 18 injured as bus veers off road (kp
23/09/2017)
Crackdown
on festive drink-driving launched (ht
21/09/2017)
Army
to begin talks to buy fast track DPR, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 20/09/2017), ‘Expressway
project will test army’s capability’, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 21/09/2017)
Rain-damaged
rural roads left unrepaired, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 14/09/2017)
Villagers
angered by delay in bridge construction (kp
14/09/2017)
Festive
rush raises safety fears, by Sanjeev Giri
(kp 13/09/2017), People
stand in lines for hours to buy bus tickets,
by Anup Ojha (kp 13/09/2017), Passengers
queue for hours since early morning to return
home empty-handed, by Sabin Mishra (ht
13/09/2017)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road to open 24 hours (kp 13/09/2017)
Tunnel
boring
machine to dig under Chure hills: It will take
the machine around two to three years to dig the
4.2 metre wide and 12-km long tunnel (kp
13/09/2017)
Lack
of MoUD synergy delays Outer Ring Road project
(ht 13/09/2017)
10
dead, 55 injured in two road accidents (kp
10/09/2017)
Repair
of rural roads unlikely before Dashain (ht
10/09/2017)
e-Rickshaws
on verge of displacement in Jhapa (rep
10/09/2017)
Two
hurt as state minister’s vehicle hits motorbike
(ht 09/09/2017)
Seekers
of
smart driving licence in a jam: Process of
issuing permits came to a grinding halt last
week due to shortage of smart cards, by
Sabin Mishra (ht 08/09/2017)
Narayangadh-Mugling
road section to open round-the-clock from
September 13 (ht 08/09/2017)
253
killed, 579 injured in road accidents in
far-west in two years (ht 08/09/2017)
Travel
ban extended for Beni-Jomsom road (kp
07/09/2017)
Rain,
landslides affect road upgradation in Dolakha
(ht 07/09/2017)
Price
of Fast Track DPR jumps 66 pc, by Rudra
Pangeni (rep 05/09/2017)
Setting
the right priorities: World cities are acting to
push out cars but our government is doing just
the opposite, by Prashanta Khanal (kp
03/09/2017)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road:
Preparations on to ease traffic for major
festivals; Only 54pc of works have been
completed so far on the road upgradation
project that started in April 2015 (kp
03/09/2017)
Commuters
still forced to make perilous journey on Karnali
Highway, by DB Buda (rep 03/09/2017)
Araniko
Highway blocked, by Anish Tiwari (kp
03/09/2017)
Rains
damage Muglin-Narayangadh road, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 01/09/2017)
Dhangadi-Taklakot
road to connect Province 7 with Tibet (ht
31/08/2017)
KMC
hands over 50 wheel lockers to traffic police
(kp 30/08/2017)
Sanphe-Martadi
road threatened (ht 30/08/2017)
Monsoon
damages substandard blacktopped Baglung roads,
by Sabgam Gharti Magar (rep 30/08/2017)
Fare
hike call before Dashain, by Anup Ojha (kp
29/08/2017)
Karnali
bridge starts to wear down due to lack of repair,
by Yogesh Rawal (rep 29/08/2017)
Black-topping
peeling off Udayapur road (ht 29/08/2017)
Flood
exposes bridge scandal in Bardiya: Babai river
bridge at Jabadighat caves in due to ‘poor build
quality’, by Kamal Panthi (kp 27/08/2017)
New
bridge at Mugling set to miss deadline, by
Prakash Baral (kp 27/08/2017)
Licence
of 348 drunk drivers suspended (ht
27/08/2017)
Ban
on unnecessary honking becoming effective in
Pokhara-Lekhnath, by Santosh Subedi (reo
27/08/2017)
Issuance
of Digital licence plates from tomorrow (kp
26/08/2017)
DoR
seeks Rs 420m immediately (ht 23/08/2017)
Bailey
bridge construction halts in Larcha, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 22/08/2017)
House
panel directive puts DoTM in dilemma: Dept asked
to set up Vehicle Fitness Test Centres in 7
provinces in a month, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
22/08/2017)
Two
killed, 21 hurt in bus accident (ht
22/08/2017)
Roads
Board proposes increasing toll rates (ht
22/08/2017)
Traffic
resumes on major highways and roads: DoR (kp
21/08/2017)
Distribution
of embossed licence plates begins (kp
21/08/2017)
Landslides
obstruct Barhabise-KTM road (kp 20/08/2017),
Landslides
block Barhabise-Tatopani road, by Anish
Tiwari (kp 21/08/2017)
Over
30 bridges damaged (ht 18/08/2017)
“Dallu
janey ho?”: An outsider finds Kathmandu buses to
be easy and safe — it just takes time, by
Julia Thomas (nt 18/08/2017)
Diversions,
Bailey bridges to resume vehicular flow (kp
16/08/2017), Bridges
at
risk: The newly built bridge in Bardiya would
not have collapsed so early had there been
proper monitoring from the concerned when it was
being constructed (ht 16/08/2017)
Vehicular
traffic resumes on roads damaged by floods
(rep 16/08/2017)
Around
1,800 taxis in Valley yet to instal billing
machines (ht 16/08/2017)
Cabs
without billing system face action (ht
14/08/2017)
Dudhaura
bridge collapses in Bara (ht 14/08/2017)
Fast
track project handed over to Army officially
(kp 12/08/2017)
Bridge
collapses a week before handover (ht
12/08/2017), Faulty
Construction, by Bhimsen Thapaliya (rn
23/08/2017)
Home
Minister bemoans Valley’s dismal traffic infra
(kp 08/08/2017)
Rautahat’s
killer
ditches claim 11 lives in 3 weeks: Contractors
blamed for digging ditches to extract soil to
elevate surface at road construction sites,
by Pawan Yadaw (kp 08/08/2017)
Remote
Ramechhap villages accessible again (ht
08/08/2017)
Nine
killed, seven hurt in Doti jeep accident, by
Mohan Shahi (kp 06/08/2017)
Contracting
process of 13 roads to begin soon in Kathmandu,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 06/08/2017)
4
girls drown in rain-filled pit (kp
06/08/2017), Four
girls of a family die after falling into a ditch
(ht 06/08/2017), 4
children drown in pits dug for road work, by
Madan Thakur (rep 06/08/2017), Speaker
directs govt to respond to minors’ death (kp
07/08/2017), Monsoon
madness: How many innocent children must die
before construction sites are made safer?
(kp 07/08/2017)
Kavre
transport operators warn of blocking Sajha
(kp 05/08/2017)
Vehicular
movement resumes along Narayangadh-Mugling road
section (ht 05/08/2017)
Multiple
landslides strike Narayangadh-Muglin road
(kp 04/08/2017), Narayanghat-Mugling
road becoming 'deathtrap', by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (rep 04/08/2017)
Road
to Mustang getting blacktopped, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 04/08/2017)
Bridge
collapse causes hardship in Tatopani, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 04/08/2017)
Auto
loan cap slams brake on four-wheelers’ growth,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 04/08/2017)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road: PM: Complete expansion project as early as
possible, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 03/08/2017)
[The PM comes, orders,
and within a few days the whole world is
wonderful!!]
No
safe roads in Pokhara for disabled, by
Santosh Subedi (rep 03/08/2017)
Sanphe-Martadai
road faces landslip threat (ht 02/08/2017)
No
road repair during monsoon: KMC mayor: Traffic
police chief says the wait would be too long for
personnel on duty (kp 01/08/2017)
Traffic
problems: Viable solutions, by Madan Mohan
Pradhan (ht 01/07/2017)
Road
Potholes And PM’s Directives, by Nandalal
Tiwari (rn 31/07/2017), ‘Potholes
fixed in 32 areas of Kathmandu’ (kp
31/07/2017), Authorities
miss deadline for fixing potholes (ht
31/07/2017)
Mahamai
folk risk lives daily to cross Mai river
on boats, by Biplav Bhattarai (kp
31/07/2017)
Construction
of Sapsu River Bridge comes to a halt, by
Daman Rai (rep 31/07/2017)
Kathmandu-Tarai
fast track: ‘Process to procure tools and raw
materials with India begun’ (kp 29/07/2017)
Govt’s
taxi permit scheme backfires, by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 29/07/2019) [An outstanding example how shortsighted
givernment decisions are!!]
Smart
surveillance vansto catch unruly drivers (ht
29/07/2017)
Fixing
potholes alone won’t resolve road woes, says
minister (ht 29/07/2017)
Bus
falls into stream as bridge caves in, two dead
(28/07/2017)
65
pc road repair work completed: PMO (kp
27/07/2017), Clear
the mess: Passing the buck has been a favourite
pastime of our government officials, which must
stop (ht 27/07/2017)
Landslides
obstruct Karnali Highway (kp 26/07/2017)
Traffic-related
deaths on rise in Jhapa (kp 26/07/2017)
Only
link to Tatopani severed as landslide destroys
key bridge: Vehicular movement obstructed,
locals having a tough time (kp 25/07/2017),
Bridge
collapse hits Tatopani locals, by Anish
Tiwari(kp 27/07/2017), ‘Bailey
bridge within a week’ (kp 28/07/2017), Tuin
link over Bhotekoshi at Larcha (kp
30/07/2017)
Army
gears up to begin KTM-Tarai expressway, by
Binod Ghimire and Bibek Subedi (kp 25/07/2017)
Fifty-eight
per cent road repair work over (kp
25/07/2017)
Rainfall
halts
filling of potholes in Kathmandu: Lack of
coordination among authorities concerned posing
another hurdle to road repairs (ht
24/07/2017)
Track
opened to link Taplejung with China border
(kp 22/07/2017), Taplejung
connected with China via road (kp
23/07/2017)
Nepal,
China trade halted due to landslide, by
Krishna Thapa (kp 22/07/2017)
Road
repair after monsoon: KMC mayor (ht
22/07/2017) [Which
monsoon, this years`or that one of 2020?]
Heavy
rainfall damages rural roads in Panchthar
district (ht 22/07/2017)
6
killed in separate road accidents (kp
21/07/2017)
Out
of Order: Lights out, by Neeraj Chandra Roy
(rep 21/07/2017)
Country
roads, by Gunjan Upadhyay (rep 21/07/2017)
Poor
road
condition hits Chitwan tourism, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 21/07/2017)
Govt
attention
drawn to ‘killer’ pits, potholes (ht
21/07/2017), Car
falls
into pit dug by Melamchi water project (ht
21/07/2017)
Rains
block roads in Rolpa, by Dinesh Subedi (rep
21/07/2017)
Kalanki-Koteshwor
section
of Ring Road to be completed by July 2018
(ht 21/07/2017)
Executive
officers
of local levels told to fill potholes (ht
20/07/2017) [The chaos
may have been produced by the central level, but
now this belongs to the taks of the local level
and should not be ordered by the central
government even though it is necessary!],
Repair
of
all roads unlikely till rains end, by Rupesh
Acharya (ht 20/07/2017)
Rs
112m paid for 11 km Valley roads but no work
done, by Khilak Budhathoki and Himal Lamsal
(rep 20/07/2017)
Proper
blacktopping after Golbazar locals protest,
by Mithilesh Yadav (rep 20/07/2017)
Khotang
to
get bridge by Dashain (ht 20/07/2017)
Valley
authorities
get down to work (kp 19/07/2017)
BP
Highway
closed for nighttime traffic (ht 19/07/2017)
Rain,
landslides
obstruct roads (ht 19/07/2017)
Number
road fatalities up in Dhading, by Shankar
Shrestha (rep 19/07/2017)
Fix
it:
Pathetic state of Capital’s roads is part of a
larger malaise afflicting Nepal’s polity (kp
19/07/2017)
Fix
them
now: When the monsoon rains start, the roads in
the Kathmandu Valley look like muddy fields
ready for paddy plantation (ht 18/07/2017)
Landslide
debris obstructing vehicular movement on Jay
Prithvi Highway, by Jagat Khadka (rep
18/07/2017)
Implementation
of
embossed number plate system delayed (ht
18/07/2017)
Pokhara
enforces
‘No Horn’ regulation (kp 17/07/2017)
Fix
potholes
in 15 days, PM tells officials (kp
17/07/2017)
31
injured
in bus-truck collision (kp 16/07/2017)
Concerns
grow over 'death trap' roads of the capital:
Water-logged roads killed one child while
another narrowly escaped death (rep
16/07/2017)
Darchula-Tinkar
road
still unfinished, by Manoj Badu (kp
16/07/2017)
DoTM
readies
new measures to ease city traffic: Long-route
buses to be regulated on the Ring Road (kp
16/08/2017)
Pedalling
for
healthier cities: Cities the world over are
embracing cycle-friendly policies to cure their
congestion woes while we remain fixated on road
expansion and monorails, by Sagar Onta and
Prashanta Khanal (kp 15/07/2017)
Chabahil-Sankhu
road
expansion: Project faces more delay: Officials,
by Samipa Khanal (kp 14/07/2017)
Roadblock:
The
Mugling Highway is an example of poor governance
and lack of accountability of those in high
office (nt 14/07/2017), Unblocking
an
artery: A trip along the accident-prone 36km
Mugling-Narayangad highway, which was once
considered an engineering feat, by Sanjeev
Sharma ( nt 14/07/2017)
Landslide
leaves
passengers in the lurch (kp 13/07/2017)
Transportation
disrupted
on unrepaired rural roads (ht 13/07/2017)
Contractors
to
be pushed for timely completion of Diktel-Halesi
road (ht 13/07/2017)
7-day
trial
run begins to ease traffic jams: Trucks, tippers
and mini trucks will be prohibited from entering
the Valley during rush hours—from 8:30 till
10:30 in the morning and 3:30 till 6:30 in the
evening, by Samipa Khanal (kp 12/07/2017)
Road
expansion again stalled in Dholahiti, by
Pooja Chauhan (rep 12/07/2017)
Dhulikhel
Municipality
seeks Sajha bus service (kp 11/07/2017)
Govt
initiates
feasibility study to expand Thankot-Mugling road
section (ht 11/07/2017)
Two
dead,
26 injured in Salyan bus accident (kp
10/07/2017)
Blacktopping
of
Rautahat road incomplete (ht 10/07/2017)
Govt
working
to ease traffic woes, says home minister (ht
10/07/2017)
Koteshwor-Bhaktapur
road:
Constant jams become a commuter’s nightmare,
by Anup Ojha (kp 09/07/2017)
Kaligandaki
corridor
becomes operational: The road is touted to be a
key trading route connecting the southern and
northern neighbors. Nearly 1 million people will
get direct access to motorable road, by
Ghanshyam Gautam (kp 09/07/2017)
72km
outer
ring road: Issues over land acquisition pegging
back project (kp 09/07/2017)
Simikot-Hilsa
road
construction nearing completion (kp
09/07/2017)
No
progress on road projects financed by Indian
soft loan (rep 09/07/2017)
Capital
roads
becoming unsafe for pedestrians? Reckless
driving has made even zebra crossings dangerous
(kp 09/07/2017)
Muglin-Narayangadh
road:
Travel curfew from Sunday (kp 07/07/2017)
Ring
Road
greenbelt declared no-parking zone (ht
07/07/2017)
Traffic
nightmare:
Ideal solution, by Nishan Kafle (ht
06/07/2017)
New
rule
set for long-route vehicles (ht 06/07/2017)
Show
the
way: The vulnerability of only one all-purpose
road between Kathmandu and the Tarai should have
woken up our leaders years ago to seek
alternative roads (ht 06/07/2017)
Parking
vehicles
in Capital not a walk in the park: Shrinking
parking areas in expanding city concern many,
by Anup Ojha (kp 02/07/2017)
Traffic
police’s
vehicle wash plan: A good move or harebrained
scheme? Many say it won’t work until authorities
fix Capital roads; Environmentalist says the
plan will work only when Kathmandu roads are
well kept, dustless and clean, by Anup Ojha
(kp 05/07/2017), Parliamentary
panel instructs govt to complete road
construction of Valley within three months,
by Ashim Neupane (rep 05/07/2017)
Muglin-Narayangadh
road:
DoR completes study on alternative route (kp
05/07/2017), Parliament
committee
orders night time travel curfew (kp
05/07/2017), Traveling
the dreaded Naryanghat-Mugling road, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 05/07/2017)
Army
seeks
consultants to review Fast Track DPR (kp
05/07/2017)
Cops
book
errant motorists: They were fined for not
halting and waiting until pedestrians crossed
the road safely (ht 05/07/2017)
At
least
600 new zebra crossings to be installed in
Kathmandu (ht 04/07/2017)
Outer
Ring
Road Project to begin in Oct (ht 04/07/2017)
Bus-Motorbike
collision
kills one, 30 injured (kp 03/07/2017)
Government
set
to introduce road test for driving licence
(ht 03/07/2017), Traffic
police
to introduce ‘road trial’ for driving licence
(kp 04/07/2017)
Nepal’s
highest bridge at risk due to poor drainage,
by Chabilal Tiwari (rep 02/07/2017)
Massive
landslide
blocks Narayangadh-Muglin road section again
(ht 01/07/2017), Narayanghat-Mugling
road
blocked for two days, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(rep 02/07/2017), Narayangadh-Muglin
road
landslides threaten pedestrians, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (rep 04/07/2017)
Bahrabise-Tatopani
road
obstructed by landslides, by Anish Tiwari
(kp 30/06/2017)
Damaged
section
of BP Highway repaired, by Tika Prasad
Bhatta (kp 30/06/2017), Vehicular
movement
resumes on BP Highway, by Anil Bhandari (rep
01/07/2017)
KMC
forms
panel to deal with Valley’s chaotic traffic
(kp 30/06/2017)
Additional
1,285
solar lights to illuminate Kathmandu roads
(kp 30/06/2017)
Smart
licences
launched in Pokhara and Baglung, by Pawan
Timilsina (kp 30/06/2017)
Sajha
receives
Rs 50m to purchase 13 buses (kp 28/06/2017)
29
places on Narayanghat-Mugling road highly prone
to landslides, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep
26/06/2017), Experts:
Not
enough done to avert landslips, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 27/06/2017), Landslides
make
Narayanghat-Mugling road 'a highway of death',
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 27/06/2017), Risky
road:
The sorry state of Muglin-Narayangadh highway
has added to the woes of the common traveller
(kp 28/06/2017)
No
horn,
please: Noise pollution is not only a traffic
problem, it is also a health problem, by
Khagendra Nath Sharma (kp 25/06/2017)
Trishuli
River swallows 19 persons in a year (rep
25/06/2017)
Travel
woes
along muglin-narayangadh road: Landslides ‘are
common’ but can they be prevented? Measures
taken to stop road disaster do not seem to be
sufficient (kp 24/06/2017), Police
van
swept away; 2 dead, as many missing, by
Bimal Khatiwada (kp 24/06/2017)
Delay
in
solar lamp installation causes inconvenience to
public (kp 24/06/2017)
Lalitpur
metropolis
to study feasibility of Kupondole-Pulchowk
flyover (kp 24/06/2017)
Wildlife
road
traffic accidents on rise: Collisions threaten
conservation efforts, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 23/06/2017)
KTM-Nijgadh
expressway
guideline approved (kp 23/06/2017)
Bus
park
noise sparks tensions between Bir Hospital and
KMC: In May last year, the bus station in the
Old Bus Park was shifted to Khula Manch, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 22/06/2017)
Govt
to
distribute taxicab permits from today (kp
21/06/2017), Lottery
for
new taxi permits for quake-survivors from today
(ht 21/06/2017), KMC
against
govt decision to add 1,500 taxis in Kathmandu
(rep 21/06/2017), KMC
decision
likely to make new taxis find new cities to ply
(kp 22/06/2017), KMC
wants
new cabs to ply in quake-hit districts (ht
23/06/2017), Quake
survivors
alloted 1,500 taxicab licences (kp
24/06/2017), No
taxi
subsidy for quake survivors: Quake survivors of
14 districts have also formed a pressure group
urging the government to come up with a scheme
that can help licence holders to purchase a taxi,
by Sanjeev Giri (kp 25/06/2017), DoTM
makes
U-turn in issuing route permits for new taxis:
Beneficiaries to get to choose to operate taxis
in their home districts;Cabs required to be
registered within next six months (ht
27/06/2017), Bookings
for
new cabs accelerate after govt issues taxi
permits (ht 29/06/2017)
Taxi
booking
services offer relief from hassles. by Aagat
Ruchi Sapkota (kp 20/06/2017)
Monsoon
arrives with landslides in the highway, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 20/06/2017)
Kanti
Highway
finally getting blacktopped, by Pratap Bista
(kp 19/06/2017)
Home
Minister
Sharma seeks plan for traffic management
(ht 18/06/2017)
Vendors,
filth
give Capital’s overhead bridges bad name, by
Anup Ojha (kp 17/06/2017)
Tripureshwor-Nagdhunga
road
widening slow due to poor coordination (ht
17/06/2017)
Ranitari-Harkapur-Dulegaunda
road
construction snail-paced (ht 17/06/2017)
Sajha
set
to bring 40 new buses (kp 16/06/2017)
Four
killed,
12 injured in separate road accidents (kp
16/06/2017)
Govt
to
include road safety in college curriculum
(ht 16/06/2017)
11
dead,
21 injured in bus accident (kp 15/06/2017),
11
killed
as bus plunges into Karnali (ht 15/06/2017)
Roads
being
cleared of building materials (ht
15/06/2017)
Time:
The Greatest Healer, by Shyam KC (rn
14/06/2017)
Home
minister
stops fine on jaywalkers (kp 14/06/2017)
New
taxicab
permits on hold due to opposition, by
Sanjeev Giri (kp 14/06/2017)
Delay
in bridge construction affects Baglung locals,
by Sangam Gharti Magar (rep 14/06/2017)
'Suina'
Possible: Surkhet to Jumla: 232 kilometers,
three cities and lofty aspirations, by
Subhash Ghimire and Guna Raj Luitel (rep
13/06/2017)
Road
expansion
not the only solution to traffic jams: Report
(ht 12/06/2017), Not
enough:
Road widening alone can help solve the traffic
snarls of the valley to a limited extent only
(ht 13/06/2017)
Pallotar
bus station has no buses, by Giriraj Baskota
(rep 12/06/2017)
Expressway
to
be expedited: Construction of the expressway is
of national importance in terms of Nepal’s
transportation network, by Pawan Timilsina
(ht 11/06/2017)
Army
resumes road connectivity project in Thawang,
by Dinesh Subedi (rep 11/06/2017)
Right
of
way: Huge infrastructural shortfalls make the
Capital difficult for pedestrians to navigate
(kp 09/06/2017)
Schoolteacher
dies
after being run over at zebra crossing: Drivers
who do not slow down for pedestrians at zebra
crossing to be fined Rs500 every instance,
by Anup Ojha (kp 07/06/2017)
Corridors
of
power: Subways, trams and elevated highways are
good mass transit systems, but it will be
another decade before such systems can be
implemented in Kathmandu and Lalitpur, by
Bimal Pratap Shah and Shyan Kirat Rai (rep
07/06/2017)
Jajarkot-Dolpa
road
works gather speed: More than 500 people are
working alongside the Nepal Army personnel at
the construction site of the 118 km road in
Dolpa, by Krishna Prasad Gautam and
Bishnulal Budha (kp 06/06/2017)
Over
13,000
jaywalkers booked in past 5 days: The number of
violations has come down in the last couple of
days, says traffic police department, by
Anup Ojha (kp 04/06/2017), Install
road
safety signs before enforcing any rule: NHRC
(ht 05/06/2017)
Govt
to
roll out smart licences across Nepal: Smart
driving licences store data like driver’s
identity and vehicle registration number (kp
04/06/2017)
Twenty
years
young: Safa Tempos and the ban on pubic vehicles
over twenty years old, by Astha Joshi (kp
03/06/2017)
Four
corners
of outer ring road along Chobhar-Satungal fixed:
The road will have cycle lanes, green belts and
disabled-friendly footpath (ht 03/06/2017)
Replacement
of
cable contraptions in full swing: Arragements
have been made to monitor newly constructed
suspension bridges and repair old ones (ht
03/06/2017)
Preparations
for
embossed number plates in final stage (kp
03/06/2017)
Drive
against
jaywalking to expand across Valley (ht
03/06/2017)
Kodari
ROAD
will reopen soon: Minister for commerce (kp
02/06/2017)
No
horn,
no jaywalking: Recent initiatives are good, but
additional measures are needed to instil civic
sense in drivers and pedestrians, by Shyam
KC (kp 02/06/2017)
Locals
demand
road construction (ht 01/06/2017)
Safer
roads:
Most accidents take place because the roads are
very narrow and in a dilapidated condition
sorely lacking maintenance (ht 30/05/2017)
Four
dead
in Dhading bus accident (kp 29/05/2017)
National
road
network expands by 849 kilometres (kp
29/05/2017)
Construction
of
bridge over Dudhkoshi likely to be delayed
(ht 29/05/2017)
PM
lays
foundation stone of Kathmandu-Nijghad fast track
(ht 29/05/2017) [The
foundation stone of this project has already
been laid by then Deputy PM Bijaya Kumar
Gachhadar in 2009!!!]
Jaywalkers
to
be fined from May 30: The Metropolitan Traffic
Police Office says it is mobilising 1,500
traffic cops to raise awareness on traffic rules
(kp 28/05/2017), Pedestrians
cry
foul as traffic cops act tough: People complain
rules implemented without adequate preparations
and road facilities, by Anup Ojha (kp
31/05/2017)
Land
prices
increase after hydro project brings road, by
Prakash Baral (kp 27/05/2017)
Defence
Ministry
discussion on fast track project (kp
26/05/2017)
Lottery
for
new taxi permits delayed (ht 26/05/2017)
20
Sajha
buses to begin service from tomorrow, by
Anup Ojha (kp 23/05/2017)
KTM-Tarai
expressway
to be inaugurated by PM (kp 22/05/2017)
Using
public
transport in Valley a huge ordeal, by Anita
Shrestha (ht 22/05/2017)
Birgunj-Thori
road
section construction to begin soon: A reliable
source tells the Post that it will cost nearly
Rs 3 billion to build the 60km road section,
by Shankar Acharya (kp 21/05/2017)
Report
highlights
dangers of overloading vehicles: Overloading
helps truckers and operators to save on
transportation costs and maximise their profits
(ht 20/05/2017)
Pedal
power:
Kathmandu’s rickshaws have received an
eye-catching facelift, but is it what the city
needs?, by Abha Dhital (kp 20/05/2017)
Valley
road
network to be upgraded (ht 19/05/2017)
Embossed
number
plates from next month (ht 19/05/2017)
Upper
Trishuli
3a: Road repairs expected to be finished by
mid-June (kp 18/05/2017)
Rules
to
curb jaywalking postponed till next week: The
MTPD says more than 900 traffic police personnel
deployed for Sunday’s local polls have yet to
join regular duties (kp 16/05/2017), Walk
this
way: Pedestrian discipline is important, but a
fine - and possible custody - for jaywalking is
harsh (kp 17/05/2017)
Distribution
of
smart driving licences slow: Govt's printing
capacity caters to less than 50 per cent of the
demand (ht 16/05/2017)
A
cautionary tale: Nepal seems to be hurrying
towards a car-centred modernity that other
countries are hurrying away from, by Thomas
B. Robertson (kp 15/05/2017)
50
pc
of work along Mid-hill Highway complete (ht
15/05/2017)
Taking
the
wheel on road safety: Why good public policy
holds the key to safer roads, by Poonam
Khetrapal Singh (kp 14/05/2017)
First
vehicle
test centre receives few clients (kp
14/05/2017)
1,773
die
in accidents in 9 months (ht 13/05/2017)
Contractors
told
to complete road projects without delay (ht
13/05/2017)
Two
dead,
35 injured in bus accident (kp 12/05/2017)
One
dead
as truck plunges into Trishuli (kp
11/05/2017)
Road
safety
week inaugurated (ht 09/05/2017)
Faded
zebra
crossings a cause for concern, by Anup Ojha
(kp 06/08/2017)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road
to be operational 24 hrs from May 8-17, by
Bimal Khatiwada (kp 06/05/2017)
Govt
decides
to let Army build 76km expressway, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 05/05/2017)
Bridge
builders:
Here is a model for connecting villages,
creating jobs and boosting local economies after
a disaster, by Sonia Awale (nt 05/05/2017)
Ring
Road
expansion: Koteshwor-Ekantakuna road stretch
likely to be completed by mid-June (kp
04/05/2017)
MTPD
urges
pedestrians to abide by traffic rules (kp
03/05/2017)
Long
road
ahead: An empowered and independent project
office must be set up to build the Fast Track,
by Ashish Gajurel (kp 02/05/2017)
Taxicab
licence
lottery put off due to local elections (kp
01/05/2017)
3,500
cabs
install electric billing machines: The move is
expected to check the instances of taxi drivers
overcharging the passengers, particularly during
the night hours (kp 30/04/2017)
Urban
Ministry
approves DPR of Outer Ring Road Project, by
Anup Ojha (kp 30/04/2017)
2
die, 11 injured in Bheri jeep crash (kp
29/04/2017)
Traffic
cops
to fine jaywalkers from mid-May (ht
29/04/2017)
Traffic
police
to launch pedestrian safety drive (ht
28/04/2017)
No-rule
roads:
We have reached a point where the total length
of vehicles in Kathmandu, laid end to end, is
greater than the length of its roads, by
Bimal Pratap Shah (rep 26/04/2017)
4
killed in Palpa truck accident (kp
24/04/2017)
5
pilgrims die, 30 injured in Mustang bus accident,
by Binod Tripathi (kp 23/04/2017)
More
than
2,000 errant drivers booked in a day (kp
23/04/2017)
Blast
use
discouraged to widen Muglin road (kp
21/04/2017)
200
public
transport routes to be trimmed: Starting
mid-June, commuters will have fewer routes to
choose from (kp 21/04/2017)
1,124
booked
for honking in five days (ht 20/04/2017)
Motorists
crowd
pumps over fuel shortage fears (kp
19/04/2017)
Dry
landslides make Narayanghat-Mugling road
perilous, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep
19/04/2017)
After
horn,
traffic police train eyes on jaywalkers, by
Anup Ojha (kp 18/04/2017)
Noise
pollution:
Shhhhh! Hopefully, Kathmandu can ease transport
bottlenecks and create safe and pleasant public
spaces, by Thomas B. Robertson (kp
18/04/2017)
Bus
mafia
controlling Nepal’s transport (kp
17/04/2017), The
bus
mafia controlling Nepal’s smog-choked capital
(ht 17/04/2017)
Landslide
obstructs
Muglin road for nearly four hours, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 15/04/2017)
OAG
laments
poor traffic management in Valley (ht
14/04/2017)
Ban
on horns comes into effect from today, by
Ram Saran Tamang (rep 14/04/2017), No
Horn
regulation comes into effect: Authorities tout
it as success, but traffic was thin on New
Year’s Day (kp 15/04/2017), Ban
on
needless honking comes into effect (ht
15/04/2017)
Damaged
BP
Highway section yet to be fixed, by Tika
Prasad Bhatta (kp 10/04/2017)
10
vehicles
booked for breaching rule (kp 09/03/2017)
113
cable
contraptions under construction (ht
08/04/2017)
Muglin-Abukhaireni
traffic
resumes, by Sudip Kaini (kp 07/04/2017)
Lane
violations
to blame for traffic jams in Valley (ht
07/04/2017)
Sajha
Yatayat still fighting for route permit in
Bhaktapur (rep 06/04/2017)
Expressway
project to be awarded to Nepal Army:
Infrastructure and transport minister tabling
proposal in the cabinet soon, by Rudra
Pangeni (rep 06/04/2017)
Driven
to
despair: Traffic chaos along Nagdhunga-Kalanki
section; 70,000 people affected every day:
Traffic police, by Anup Ojha (kp 05/04/2017)
Two
killed
as falling rocks hit four highway vehicles,
by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 04/04/2017)
Locals
obstruct
traffic in Chabahil to protest delay in road
repair, by Samipa Khanal (04/04/2017)
Valley
to
be declared ‘no horn zone’: The rule will come
into force from April 14, according to
authorities, by Anup Ojha (kp 04/04/2017)
Construction
of
road to Tibet to begin (kp 02/04/2017)
Five
dead,
as many injured as truck hits bus (kp
02/04/2017)
Govt
disregards NPC VC advice, prepares to give
expressway contract to army (rep 01/04/2017)
Locals
protest
against road widening drive (ht 31/03/2017)
Euro
IV
standard fuel to be sold from Sat (kp
30/03/2017)
7
dead in Pyuthan jeep accident, by Giru
Prasad Bhandari (kp 25/03/2017)
4
dead, 21 hurt in bus-bike collision (kp
24/03/2017)
Japan’s
Nippon
Koei awarded contract to prepare DPR (kp
24/03/2017)
Vehicle
registration
exceeds 2.5 million: More than one million
automobiles registered within last
four-and-a-half years, by Sujan Dhungana (ht
23/03/2017)
Overloaded,
speedy tippers causing road fatalities in Butwal
(rep 23/03/2017)
Surkhet-Jumla
road
gets crash barriers, by Tularam Pandey and
Jyoti Katuwal (kp 22/03/2017)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road
to be blocked for 6 hours (ht 22/03/2017), Narayanghat-Mugling
road work , by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (rep
24/03/2017)
Fast
track
to lost track: Politicians couldn’t understand
the legal and financial complexities of a
privately-financed infrastructure project,
by Semanta Dahal (kp 21/03/2017)
Ban
on
20-yr-old vehicles: Only 9 outdated motors
seized in three weeks (kp 21/03/2017)
Traffic
chaos
becomes more difficult to manage (ht
21/03/2017), Traffic
congestion a nightmare for Valley denizens,
by Pooja Chauhan (rep 21/03/2017)
Behind
the
ban, by Priyanka Gurung (rep 17/03/2017)
2,000
taxis
in Valley get billing printers (ht
16/03/2017)
Kathmandu
Tarai expressway: Process to distribute
compensation to homeowners begins (rep
16/03/2017)
District-wise
lotteries
on cards for new cab licences (kp
15/03/2017)
Chabahil-Sankhu
road:
Expansion moving at snail’s pace (kp
14/03/2017)
NA
opens
22km corridor track (kp 14/03/2017)
Cops
to
step up drink-driving checks on Holi (ht
11/03/2017)
At
least
24 killed in Jajarkot bus plunge, by Bhim
Bahadur Singh (kp 10/03/2017), 26
perish in Jajarkot bus accident, by Janak KC
(rep 10/03/2017)
Decade-old
bailey
bridge rusting for want of repairs (ht
10/02/2017)
Tatopani-Nyalam
border
point: Reconstruction complete, but trade yet to
resume, by Anish Tiwari (kp 09/03/2017)
Valley
taxis
reluctant to install computerised billing
system: Only 1,500 out of 9,500 cabbies have
fittet the system in their cabs (ht
08/03/2017)
Supreme
Court
puts on hold demolition drive in Kavre (ht
07/03/2017)
Limi-Lapcha
road
reaches Simikot (kp 03/07/2017)
Landslide
obstructs
highway (kp 06/03/2017), Landslide
obstructs highway in Baglung, by Sangam
Gharti Magar (rep 06/03/2017), Landslide
clearing-up begins in Righa, by Sangam
Gharti Magar (rep 08/03/2017), Traffic
resumes
on Baglung-Burtigang road (kp 19/03/2017)
Construction
of
Jomsom bridge gathers pace: The bridge is on the
Kaligandaki corridor of the Korala Highway.
People are using suspension and wooden bridges
instead, by Binod Tripathi (kp 05/03/2017)
Hansapur
folk
risking life and limb, by Giru Bhandari (kp
05/03/2017)
Mid-hill
road
project: New highway generates business
opportunities in Baglung; The road construction
has increased the flow of travelers,
raising demand for various services, by
Purna BK (kp 05/03/2017)
China
completes
first phase of Araniko Highway repair project
(kp 04/03/2017), China
hands
over Araniko Highway after repair (ht
04/03/2017)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road
to miss deadline (ht 03/03/2017)
900
taxis
installed with billing system (kp
02/03/2017)
Roads
dug
up for water pipelines to be blacktopped by May:
Official, by Samipa Khanal (kp 01/03/2017)
Kathmandu-Tarai
fast
track project: Govt told to award contract this
FY (kp 01/03/2017)
Road
link
excites Khungri villager: The road has helped
locals take their produces to the market and
transport essentials goods to village (kp
01/03/2017)
‘Old
public
vehicles will be banned from March 1’ (kp
28/02/2017), Positive
move:
Decision to ban out-of-date vehicles is a small
step towards better traffic management (kp
01/03/2017), End
of the road for Valley's old public vehicles,
by Ram Saran Tamang (rep 01/03/2017), Inspection
of
clunkers begins in Valley (kp 02/03/2017), Govt
bans
20-year-old public vehicles (ht 02/03/2017)
106
more
CCTV cameras to be installed in Kathmandu:
Police data show at least 50 incidents, ranging
from traffic rules violation to road traffic
accidents, theft, robbery, among others, are
captured on CCTV cameras daily, by Samipa
Khanal (kp 27/02/2017)
Khurkot
bridge
becomes lifeline for northern hills, by Tika
Prasad Bhatta (kp 26/02/2017)
Govt
to
reduce number of public transport routes in
Valley (kp 26/02/2017)
Water
trucks,
tippers account for 30pc accidents (ht
26/02/2017)
India
approves
16 road projects in Nepal: The new projects
under India’s financial assistance will be
carried out under Indian government’s
third Line of Credit (kp 24/02/2017)
Four
die
in tractor accidents (kp 23/02/2017)
Ktm-Tarai
expressway
likely to be built under EPC model, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 23/02/2017), Construction
of
Nepal's first expressway to start soon (rep
23/02/2017)
BP
Highway
obstructed as 37m section crumbles: Officials
differ over cause: heavy vehicles, earthquake,
topography, by Sanjeev Giri, Tika Bhatta and
Raj Kumar Karki (kp 21/02/2017), BP
Highway closed after section collapses, by
Madhusudan Guragain (rep 21/02/2017), Diversion
constructed
to reroute BP Highway traffic (kp
22/02/2017), Vehicular
movement resumes along BP Highway, by Anil
Bhandari (kp 22/02/2017), Govt
not
keen to find cause of BP Highway collapse
(ht 06/3/2017)
Road
safety
plan: Tourist buses rarely meet with accidents
as their drivers follow the traffic rules and do
not carry more passengers than their carrying
capacity (ht 21/02/2017)
Disabled
people
hit by road expansion, Melamchi works, by
Anup Ojha (kp 21/02/2017)
Pick-up
plunges
into Trishuli; one dead, another missing, by
Shiva Puri (kp 21/02/2017)
16
injured in micro bus accident (rep
21/02/2017)
Adamghat-Chautara
road
to be widened (ht 21/02/2017)
Road
projects:
Govt told to allot budget for army (kp
20/02/2017)
Road
safety
audits to minimise accidents (ht 20/02/2017)
Road
fatalities
on the rise in Kaski (ht 20/02/2017)
Fast-track
expressway:
Deadline nears, but modality not yet finalised
(kp 19/02/2017). Committee
suggests
setting up special purpose vehicle: The special
purpose vehicle could be in the form of a
company, a development committee or an authority
(kp 21/02/2017), Construction
modality
for Kathmandu-Tarai expressway submitted (ht
21/02/2017)
Sinkhole
damaged
road at Naxal reopens after repairs (kp
18/02/2017)
The
new
ride: Tootle, a ride sharing app that offers a
new and easy way of providing and taking rides
in Kathmandu, comes as a breath of respite for
Kathmandu’s exasperated commuters, by
Aakriti Dhital (kp 18/02/2017)
Myanglung
folk
protest Mid Hill Highway plan (kp
17/02/2017)
Chabahil-Jorpati
road: Contract awarded a year ago, work yet to
start (rep 17/02/2017)
How
rational
is the government’s decision to phase out
20-year-old public vehicles? (ht 17/02/2017)
Dadeldhura
jeep
crash kills seven: five injured: People have
long been complaining that jeeps operating in
the district often carry passengers beyond their
capacity, by Mohan Budhair (kp 16/02/2017)
Sajha
operates
night buses in the Capital (kp 16/02/2017)
Road
black-topped just to be demolished within a
month, by Upendra Lamichhane (rep
16/02/2017)
Decree
to
remove structures on highway (ht 14/02/2017)
Bridge
construction
left in limbo (ht 14/02/2017)
Teku-based
VFTC
to come into operation from mid-April (ht
14/02/2017)
Major
road
sections yet to be expanded in Valley (ht
13/02/2017)
PM:
Works
for construction of Fast Track to begin in a
month: Groundwork being prepared to implement
second int’l airport project’, by Laxmi Sah
(kp 12/02/2017)
Collapsed
Naxal
road to open for one-way traffic from Feb 16:
The road section has been sealed since January 9
as a sinkhole swallowed up one lane of the
street, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 12/02/2017)
18
years on, motorable bridge in Jhulaghat still a
distant dream, by Bira Gadal (rep
11/02/2017)
Highway
robbery:
Nepal’s public transport is in the grip of
cartels which will do anything to prevent
competition, by Shreejana Shrestha (nt
10/02/2017)
Public
Transport
= Public Health: Widening roads without
upgrading the public transport system is
counter-productive, by Bhushan Tuladhar (nt
10/02/2017)
4
dead, 16 hurt in Palpa jeep crash (kp
08/02/2017)
Ring
road
expansion: 2 bridges completed under KRRIP,
by Samipa Khanal (kp 08/02/2017)
Imja
River bridge still uncertain, by Radha
Dhungana (rep 08/02/2017)
149,000
applications
for 1,500 new taxicab permits, by Sanjeev
Giri (kp 06/02/2017)
Sajha
to
install smart pay devices on its buses (kp
05/02/2017)
Kathmandu-Tarai
fast
track project: Panel to suggest acquisition of
DPR from Indian firm, by Rupak D. Sharma (kp
05/02/2017), KTM-Tarai
Fast
Track: Panel seeks 15 more days to complete
study: The committee is seeking more time so as
to initiate dialogue with the Indian
consortium that prepared the detailed
project report of the 76-km fast track (kp
06/02/2017)
Govt
told
to keep roads in the Valley dust-free (ht
04/02/2017), House
panel tells authorities to restore dug up roads
(rep 04/02/2017)
Ministries
asked
to develop disabled-friendly infrastructure
(kp 03/02/2017)
Bulldozing
development:
Not only is the Valley’s road-widening the wrong
solution for traffic congestion, it is also
destroying priceless historical heritage, by
Srizu Bajracharya (nt 03/02/2017)
Embossed
number
plates likely this FY (kp 03/02/2017)
Lawmakers
question
priorities of infrastructure projects, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 02/02/2017)
DRO
starts
pulling down illegal structures (ht
02/02/2017)
APP
to
hail taxis set to be launched in a month (kp
01/02/2017)
Under-construction
Kamala
bridge in limbo for four years, by Min
Bahadur Dahal (kp 31/01/2017)
DPR
of Kathmandu-Tarai Fast Track Project: Indian
consortium seeks Rs 600 million compensation
(rep 31/01/2017)
13
disabled-friendly
buses launched: City Metro Yatayat Pvt Ltd is
the first private company to introduce
disabled-friendly buses in Kathmandu (kp
28/01/2017)
Muglin
road
upgradation: 35 pc work complete, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 26/01/2017)
Locals
halt
construction work (ht 25/01/2017)
Outer
ring
road construction: Works on Chobhar-Satungal
stretch to start in Feb; The project has
been in a limbo for over 12 years due to
various reasons, by Anup Ojha (kp
25/01/2017)
Roads
incomplete
for lack of budget (kp 23/01/2017)
Army
to
open track of road linking China, by Sudip
Kaini (kp 23/01/2017)
Naxal
road
collapse: Repair work likely to complete by Feb
10 (kp 22/01/2017)
Vehicles
older
than 20 yrs to be taken off roads (kp
20/01/2017), Managing
the
traffic: Various measures could be taken to
address the transportation sector through
promoting the use of electric vehicles including
trolley buses which are environment friendly
(ht 20/01/2017)
Two
incomplete sections of Hulaki Rajmarga in
Kailali inaugurated, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal
(rep 20/01/2017)
Road
construction
snail-paced in Udayapur (ht 20/01/2017)
Traffic,
technology & conformity, by Gunjan
Upadhyay (rep 20/01/2017)
6
held in Dhangadhi over road protest (kp
20/01/2017)
Preparation
to
operate metro buses in the Valley in full swing
(kp 18/01/2017)
Hetauda
banda
in protest of demolition campaign (kp
18/01/2017), Illegally-built
infrastructure
being demolished to expand road (ht
18/01/2017)
Kathmandu-Kulekhani-Hetauda
Tunnel
Highway: Govt officials for reviewing 'unfair
provisions' before renewing contract (rep
18/01/2017)
Five
die,
18 hurt in road accidents (kp 16/01/2017)
Uninformed
locals
building houses close to highway, by
Ghanshyam Khadka (kp 11/01/2017)
Ramechhap
VDCs
linked with roads, by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp
10/01/2017)
Enchroachment
rampant
along highways in the West (kp 09/01/2017)
Jayaram-Halesi
road
section in sorry state (ht 09/01/2017)
Road
caves
in at 5-star hotel construction site (kp
09/01/2017)
Road
expansion
work halted in Bhaktapur (ht 07/01/2017)
Solar
lights
to replace 50,000 street lamps in 143
municipalities (kp 05/01/2017), 45,308
solar
street lights to be installed across country
this fiscal (ht 05/01/2017)
Banda
affects
normal life; 83 held, freed (kp 05/01/2017)
Notice
to
remove illegal buildings worries locals (ht
05/01/2017)
KTM-Tarai
fast
track project: Donors showing interest to
finance 76-km expressway (kp 04/01/2017)
Expansion
work
along Narayangadh-Muglin road moving at snail’s
pace (ht 04/01/2017)
2
dead, 50 hurt in bus crash (kp 03/01/2017)
Delay
in restoring roads dug by Melamchi Project
troubles valley denizens, by Ram Saran
Tamang (rep 03/01/2017)
Govt
asks Kathmandu Valley municipalities to register
company to operate large buses, by Gyan P.
Neupane (rep 03/01/2017)
Taxi
receipt
system formally launched (kp 02/01/2017), 37
Valley
cabs equipped with billing system in five days,
by Anup Ojha (kp 05/01/2017)
459
drunk
drivers booked on New Year eve (ht
02/01/2017)
KMC
installing
more than 1,200 solar lamps (kp 01/01/2017),
Out
of
order: If our public body cannot properly
maintain solar streetlamps, it will be far
better to transfer this responsibility to the
private sector. But streetlights must always
burn to light the darkness (ht 02/01/2017)
India-funded
roads:
After joint mechanism meet, projects show
progress, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
01/01/2017)
Traffic
congestion
worsening, by Arjun Poudel (ht 30/12/2016)
MTPD
announces
rules for New Year revellers: Besides drunken
driving, police have also banned street
festivals and outdoor concerts in Kathmandu
Valley on the eve and the first of January 2017
(kp 29/12/2016)
1
dead, 26 hurt as bus falls on Trishuli riverbank
(kp 28/12/2016)
No
budget
crunch for Kanti Highway: Minister Lekhak
(ht 27/12/2016)
Ilam
roads in dire need of repairs, by Bhim
Chapagain (rep 27/12/2016)
Alarmed
by trenches, residents block highway widening
project, by Mahesh Kumar Das (rep
27/12/2016)
Fading
zebra
crossings adding to traffic chaos in Valley
(ht 26/12/2016)
Hilsa
bridge connects Karnali with China, by DB
Buda (rep 26/12/2016)
KTM-Tarai
fast
track project: Taskforce set to start work from
this week (kp 25/12/2016)
Disputes
delay
road upgradation (ht 25/12/2016)
Application
for
driving licence goes online (ht 25/12/2016)
North-South
Highway to connect Khandabari to Kimathanka:
Road-widening and graveling of Deurali-Pathivara
section in full swing (rep 24/12/2016)
No
impact
of strike on Sajha (kp 23/12/2016)
4
hrs daily traffic closure starts at Muglin road,
by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 23/12/2016)
Previous
deals
scrapped, govt to build fast track (kp
23/12/2016), Cabinet
nod for decision to build Fast Track by Nepal
itself (rep 23/12/2016)
Japan
extends
Rs15.1b to build Nagdhunga tunnel, by Rupak
D. Sharma (kp 21/12/2016)
PM
Dahal
inaugurates bridge over Hilsa River: The bridge
over the Hilsa River in Mugu connects the
mountainous district with China’s Tibet, by
Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 21/12/2016)
Beijing
ready
to open Kodari Highway: Li Qibao (kp
20/12/2016)
Billing
system
must for taxis from January 1 (kp
20/12/2016)
Bridge
construction
left in limbo (ht 20/12/2016)
Seven
dead,
1 missing in jeep crash, by Raj Kumar Karki
(kp 19/12/2016)
Upper
Mustang
cut off after flood (kp 19/12/2016), Flashflood
sweeps bridges in Mustang, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 19/12/2016)
Municipalities
asked
to furnish details of solar lights installed
(ht 17/12/2016)
Silk
Road
bonanza: The Belt and Road Initiative advanced
by China presents huge prospects for Nepal,
by Aditya Baral (kp 16/12/2016)
SC
again orders govt to end public transport
syndicates, by Nabin Khatiwada (rep
16/12/2016)
DoR
scraps
RfP for Nepali consultant at India’s call,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 15/12/2016)
Three
years on, Vehicle Fitness Center still remains
unused (rep 15/12/2016)
Constituency
Infrastructure
Development Program: Road projects major
recipient of funds, by Narahari Sapkota (rep
15/12/2016)
4
killed in truck crash (kp 15/12/2016)
Bridge
buckles
after truck crash: A massive traffic snarl-up
caused for nearly nine hours; Diversion created
to reroute stranded vehicles, by Nabin
Paudel (kp 12/12/2016)
Five
dead,
35 injured in road accidents (kp 12/12/2016)
Four
dead,
three injured in road crash (kp 11/12/2016)
‘Proposed
roads,
highways pose threat to wildlife’ (ht
10/12/2016)
Four
die, 20 injured in bus accident, by
Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep 10/12/2016)
Khandbari-Kimathanka
road:
NA airlifts heavy duty vehicles to project site
(kp 07/12/2016)
Solar
lights
in Tanahun (ht 07/12/2016)
‘Underpass
will
ease congestion at Kalanki’ (kp 07/12/2016)
Vehicle
ban
lifted in Nawalparasi (ht 07/12/2016)
Road
projects
under Indian LoC moving at snail’s pace, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 06/12/2016)
Stricter
traffic
rules in the offing (ht 06/12/2016)
No-drive
time
for school buses and pickups to troubleshoot
congestion, by Anup Ojha (kp 06/12/2016)
PM
Dahal
urged to expedite Kathmandu to Nijgadh fast
track (ht 06/12/2016)
KVDA
resumes
expansion of roads in Valley (ht 05/12/2016)
Chaotic
city rides: The government should not leave us,
even if we are driving at the speed of a bullock
cart, at the mercy of supernatural force, by
Devendra Gautam (rep 05/12/2016)
China
builds
road up to Tiptala Bhanjyang, by Anand
Gautam (kp 04/12/2016)
Sterner
penalty
for using cellphone while driving (ht
04/12/2016)
Dustbins
compulsory
in long route public vehicles (kp
03/12/2016), Public
vehicles
required to have trash bins (ht 14/12/2016)
KMC
to
invest Rs 50m in Sajha Yatayat (kp
02/12/2016)
ADB
okays
$186m loan to upgrade key road sections (kp
02/12/2016)
Expansion
of
1.5km stretch over, blacktopping in 6 months
(kp 01/12/2016)
120,000
digital
licences issued till date (ht 01/12/2016)
NBSM
introduces
taxi billing system, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
01/12/2016)
8
tuins replaced since Oct 2015 (kp
30/11/2016)
Road
department not in hurry to fix accident-prone
highway section, by Raju Adhikari (rep
30/11/2016)
No
truck
with cartels: Sajha is a shining light but only
broader policy decisions can reform public
transport (kp 29/11/2016)
‘Better
transport
bedrock of economic growth’ (ht 29/11/2016)
9
killed, 32 injured in road accidents (kp
28/11/2016)
Betrawati-Rasuwagadhi-Kerung
Trade
Route: Token system introduced for containers;
Road repair work in the Chinese side has
affected movement: of containers: Officials,
by Nirajan Paudel (rep 28/11/2016)
Public
Transportation:
Is it really FOR the public? Syndicate still
thriving on consumers’ loss and discomfort
(kp 27/11/2026)
Sajha’s
30
new buses to come in operation today, by
Anup Ojha (kp 27/11/2016)
Plan
to ban vehicles older than 20 years hits a snag,
by Ram Saran Tamang (rep 26/11/2016)
Only
34
km roads expanded in nine years (ht
25/11/2016)
DoTM
taking
licence forms (kp 24/11/2016), DoTM
reopens
applications for driving licence (ht
24/11/2016)
KVDA
to
use force to expand road (ht 24/11/2016)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road
expansion project to speed up work, by Tilak
Ram Rimal (ht 23/11/2016)
Six-lane
Birgunj-Pathalaiya Road to be ready in 20 months,
by Upendra Yadav (rep 23/11/2016)
Govt
to
annul Fast Track deals with Indian firm:
Minister Lekhak says government will mobilise
own resources to build the Kathmandu-Nijgadh
expressway, by Sangam Prasain (kp
21/11/2016), Nepal
to build Fast Track itself, by Sagar Ghimire
(rep 21/11/2016)
Four
dead
in road accidents (kp 20/11/2016)
Motor
vehicle
agreement: Thimphu rejects India-initiated BBIN
road plan (kp 19/11/2016)
Delayed
6-lane
road project adds to dust pollution woes, by
Bedraj Paudel (kp 17/11/2016)
Three
multi-storey
parking lots to be built (ht 16/11/2016)
Vehicular
movement
resumes after five months (ht 16/11/2016)
Kathmandu-Tarai
Fast-track:
No plan yet for spending Rs 10 b allocation,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 16/11/2016)
Sajha
set
to expand bus service (kp 15/11/2016), Sajha
Yatayat
to expand bus service in Kathmandu (ht
15/11/2016), Sajha
plans
to add more buses: Set to bring 11 buses,
including one equipped with semi low-floor that
is disabled friendly (ht 16/11/2016)
Our
Roads And Traffic, byd Prem Khatry (rn
15/11/2016)
Road
expansion
work resumes after festivals (ht 14/11/2016)
Bridge
construction
in limbo (ht 14/11/2016)
Traffic
police
equipped with body-worn cameras (ht
12/11/2016)
Euro
IV
standard petrol, diesel from April 17 (ht
11/11/2016)
Bridge
project
in limbo: Contractor builds only four pillars in
five years; Locals claim high-level corruption,
by Shahiman Rai (kp 10/11/2016)
Delay
in
road expansion causing inconvenience to public
(ht 09/11/2016)
Nagdhunga-Naubise
tunnel
road project: Nepal, Japan to start loan
negotiations, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
08/11/2016), Japan
agrees
to provide Rs 15.81b in soft loan: As per the
agreement reached between the two sides, Nepal
will have to pay 0.01 percent interest, one of
the lowest rates, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 13/11/2016)
Crucial
Nepal-China trade road too risky, by
Niranjan Paudel (rep 08/11/2016)
PM’s
Office
seeks help of traffic police to improve Valley
roads (kp 06/11/2016)
DoR
set
to expedite road expansion projects in Valley
(ht 06/11/2016)
Path
cleared
for Postal Road project (kp 04/11/2016)
Road
expansion
projects moving at snail’s pace, by Pramod
Kumar Tandan (ht 04/11/2016)
Road
project
remains in limbo for the last 19 years (ht
04/11/2016)
Stiffer
fines
reduce traffic rule violations, increase revenue
(ht 04/11/2016)
KMC
to
build automated parking in New Road (kp
30/10/2016)
Roads
in
Dhading in sorry state after landslides (ht
30/10/2016)
4
dead, 33 hurt in road accidents (kp
30/10/2016)
Taxi
receipt
system to be implemented in Valley (kp
27/10/2016)
16
years
on, Martadi-Kolti road incomplete (ht
27/10/2016)
Sub-committees
to
be set up for onsite inspection of roads (kp
26/10/2016)
Recently
repaired
Madi Bridge at high risk (ht 26/10/2016)
Birgunj
to
make e-rickshaw driver’s licence mandatory
(kp 24/10/2016)
Three
decades
on, Sahajpur-Bogtan road still incomplete
(ht 24/10/2016)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road
widening works over 29 percent in 18 months,
by Shiva Puri (kp 23/10/2016)
KMC
deal
with private firm to install 1,285 solar street
lights, by Anup Ojha (kp 22/10/2016)
Bridge-less
Karnali
highway: Contractors disappear, transport woes
mount, by Prakash Adhikari (kp 21/10/2016)
Traffic
violations
on the rise in Kaski (ht 21/10/2016)
Trishuli
bus
plunge: one dies another goes missing (kp
20/10/2016)
Nobody’s
Business, by Shyam KC (rn 19/10/2016)
Heavy
supply of stones takes toll on KI Singh Highway,
by Barun Paneru (rep 19/10/2016)
Transport
woes:
Neither our business sector nor the government
is interested in developing inexpensive and
efficient modes of mass transit, by Sujeev
Shakya (kp 18/10/2016)
563
road accidents, 101 fatalities recorded during
Dashain, by Ram Saran Tamang (rep
18/10/2016), 21
killed in road accidents during Dashain in
eastern region, by Amar Kahdka (rep
18/10/2016)
9
die in road accidents in Valley during Dashain:
Records show motorcycles get into accidents more
often, mostly due to speed and reckless driving
(kp 17/10/2016)
Birtadeurali
bus
crash: Transport operators refuse to pay relief,
by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 17/10/2016)
Dash
cam
installed in patrolling vehicles (ht
16/10/2016)
Rockslide
affects
highway traffic flow (kp 15/10/2016)
Vehicles
fleecing
passengers (ht 15/10/2016)
Koteshwor-Ekantakuna
road
to be 8-lane by next monsoon, by Dipesh
Khatiwada (kp 14/10/2016)
Landslide
obstructs
road to Barah Chhetra (kp 14/10/2016)
Damaged
roads
yet to be repaired (ht 14/10/2016)
19
killed,
73 injured in traffic accidents in East during
holidays (kp 14/10/2016)
60
injured
in Jhapa bus collision (kp 13/10/2016)
One
dead,
four injured in car-bus collision (kp
13/10/2016)
18
injured
as bus hits rickshaw in Rautahat (ht
13/10/2016)
Sleeping
couple
killed as truck rams into roadside house (ht
10/10/2016)
65
injured in Makawanpur bus collision (rep
09/10/2016)
Rs
477m
released for solar street light programme
(kp 08/10/2016)
Mules,
yaks
transporting goods to upper eastern region this
Dashain (kp 08/10/2016)
Hundreds
stranded
at Aina Paharo (kp 07/10/2016), Vehicles
stranded for hours due to delay in clearing
landslide debris, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(rep 07/10/2016)
China
starts
repairing Kerung road (kp 06/10/2016)
MoFALD
seeks
progress report on installation of solar street
lights (ht 06/10/2016)
New
company breaks transport cartel in Kavre
(rep 06/10/2016)
Preps
on
to ensure smooth traffic flow (kp
04/10/2016)
Take
action:
Govt needs to wake up to the misery caused by
the transport syndicate (kp 04/10/2016)
Country
roads:
The forever unfinished Postal Highway
illustrates the low priority accorded to Madhes
so far, by Randhir Chaudhary (kp 04/10/2016)
4
killed, 70 injured in separate bus accidents,
by Pratap Bista (kp 03/10/2016)
Resource
crunch
hits search operations (ht 03/10/2016)
Govt
to use own vehicles to ease Dashain traffic:
Transport bosses cite bad roads for not fielding
enought buses, by Ram Saran Tamang (rep
03/10/2016)
Eco
safe
roads: A primary driver of the huge rise in
landslide fatalities has been the increase in
poorly constructed roads, by Karen
Sudmeier-Rieux, Brian McAdoo and Peter Laban (kp
02/10/2016)
Chaos
in
Kathmandu: How about making it compulsory for
government employees to use public transport?,
by Dinesh Malla (kp 02/10/2016)
Heavy
vehicles on BP Highway mar road safety:
Stakeholders, by Madhusudan Guragain (rep
01/10/2016)
Muglin-Narayanghat
road accidents: Irresponsible departmental
behavior claiming lives, year after year, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 01/10/2016)
Obstructed
roads
hit food supply hard (ht 30/09/2016)
Muglin-Kotre
road
section repairs intensified (ht 30/09/2016)
Sajha
revives
long route bus service: Buses to ply from Gorkha
and Baglung by October 2 (ht 29/09/2016), Sajha
to
operate buses to Baglung and Gorkha (kp
30/09/2016)
2,832
road accidents in past 2 months left 340 dead,
by Ram Saran Tamang (rep 28/09/2016)
19
killed
in Dhading bus accident: Vehicle lacked road
permit; Most victims quake survivors returning
home with house rebuilding cash, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 28/09/2016), Tragic
accident:
We see that the provision of safer journeys is
not followed by the transport operators who seem
to care only about earning handsome profits
(ht 29/09/2016)
Travel
troubles:
Travelling should not at all be as risky and
stressful as it is (kp 27/09/2016)
Dumping
of
building material on roads to draw fine (ht
26/09/2016)
Ex-minister
Ghimire, 2 others missing in Trishuli car plunge,
by Kamal Pariyar (rep 26/09/2016), Search
for
three missing in Trishuli continues, by
Bimal Khatiwada (kp 27/09/2016), Bodies
of
ex-min Ghimire, brother found (kp
09/10/2016), Ex-minister
Ghimire’s
jeep crashed while overtaking truck: Report
(kp 09/12/2016)
MPCO
intensifies
CCTV installation drive (kp 25/09/2016)
Road
links
to Jajarkot VDCs remain cut off, by Bhim
Bahadur Singh (kp 25/09/2016)
5
killed, 8 injured in separate road accidents
(ht 25/09/2016)
Narayangad-Muglin
highway:
Authorities order to fix road section pronto;
Hours-long traffic jams the bane of travellers
(kp 22/09/2016)
Traffic
snarls caused by VVIP movements now routine
(rep 22/09/2016) [Nepal's
royals of today!]
Stricter
drive
against drink-driving (kp 21/09/2016)
Olangchungola
folk
excited by road link with Tibet, by Ananda
Gautam (kp 21/09/2016)
Solar
lights
to be installed in all wards of Kathmandu
(ht 19/09/2016)
Road
accidents
on Prithvi Highway due to potholes (ht
19/09/2016)
Risky
travelling (ht 19/09/2016)
MoPIT
proposes
raising minimum driving age (ht 18/09/2016)
Sajha
Yatayat
delays import of new buses (ht 15/09/2016)
Four
decades on, Postal Highway still incomplete,
by Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep 15/09/2016)
Landslide
blocks
traffic at Rasuwagadhi-Syaphru road (kp
14/09/2016), Syaphrubesi-Rasuwagadhi
road
blocked by rockslide, by Prakash Adhikari
(kp 16/09/2016)
Buses
to
charge Rs 7 per km of distance travelled (ht
14/09/2016)
Risk-fraught
road
journey for Dhading locals (ht 14/09/2016)
Construction
of
Mechi bridge remains sluggish (ht
14/09/2016)
Flood
disrupts
traffic on East-West Highway (kp
13/09/2016), Heavy
rain
exposes Valley’s drainage: Most roads
waterlogged, traffic flow adversely affected
(ht 13/09/2016)
17
big buses to replace 26 micros, 35 tempos on
Gongabu-TIA route (rep 13/09/2016)
Rowdy
roads: Road accidents capture our attention only
when death toll is high. Death of one or two is
conveniently ignored, by Ram Kandangwa (rep
12/09/2016)
5
dead, 38 hurt in accidents (kp 11/09/2016)
35pc
of
highway drivers have eye problems: Test, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 11/09/2016)
Safety
doesn’t
happen by accident: Nepal is blighted with some
of the roughest terrains in the world, but the
accidents on its highways are not just of
nature’s doing, by Rajneesh Bhandari (kp
10/09/2016)
Democratizing
‘luxury’: Nepal is perhaps the only country in
the world where buying a car is a major life
decision, by Gunjan Upadhyay (rep
09/09/2016)
Nab
the
serial killers: Accidents cannot be prevented
but they can and should be minimised so that
five innocent people do not die every day,
by Shyam KC (kp 09/09/2016)
The
Fast Track: Rumours Move Even Faster, by
Prem Khatry (rn 07/09/2016)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road:32
accident-prone spots on the stretch identified;
The 25-km road section between Jugedi and Muglin
is at high risk of landslides and road accidents,
by Shiva Puri (kp 03/09/2016)
Killer
roads: Traffic Police attribute 90 percent of
all road accidents in Nepal to transport
syndicates, by David Kainee (rep 03/09/2016)
Dahal,
Nidhi
at odds over Fast Track deal (kp
03/09/2016), Award
fast
track project to Indian firm: DPM (ht
03/09/2016), PM's
India
visit: Fast Track ‘not on agenda’, by Tika
R. Pradhan (kp 04/09/2016)
PM
directs
blacktopping of Janakpur-Jaleshwor road (kp
03/09/2016)
Nagdhunga-Naubise
tunnel:
Japan to provide Rs18b loan; According to
officials at the Ministry of Physical
Infrastructure and Transport, an announcement
about the loan is likely to be made on Thursday
or Friday, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
01/09/2016)
Afternoon
hours
most accident-prone: Report (ht 01/09/2016)
Shut
them
down: Public transport syndicates have been
blamed for the unnerving rise in bus accidents,
by Umesh Raj Regmi (kp 31/08/2016) [Such syndicates are part of
high-level political corruption!]
Road
Accidents: Existing Transport System Must Change,
by Narayan Upadhyay (rn 31/08/2016)
Highway
patrols lacking as road accidents soar, by
Kamal Pariyar (rep 30/08/2016)
At
least
11 killed as jeep veers off road: Four of
six injured critical n Brake failure could have
caused accident, by Birendra KC (kp
29/08/2016), 11
killed
as jeep falls off road, by Devendra Barma (ht
29/08/2016)
Drunk
cop’s
motorbike kills one (kp 29/08/2016)
With
syndicate
broken, transporters compete to launch new
vehicles, by Birendra KC (kp 29/08/2016)
Rising
number
of road accidents: Home Ministry for strict
implementation of law (kp 28/08/2016), Parliament
takes
up road accident issue: Lawmakers call for
introducing stringent laws (kp 29/08/2016), Hard
drive:
Alarming numbers of road accidents can be reduced
with crackdown on transport ‘cartels’ (kp
29/08/2016), Govt
working
to amend laws to
scrap licence of reckless drivers (ht
29/08/2016), Security
checks
tightened along Narayangadh-Muglin road section of
highway (ht 29/08/2016), Vehicles
carrying
passengers more than capacity to have route permit
cancelled (rep 29/08/2016)
Seven
injured
as truck plunges into Trishuli (kp 28/08/2016)
22
killed
as bus plunges into Trishuli River, by Shiva
Puri (kp 27/08/2016), Trishuli
bus
plunge: ‘12 missing’ (kp 29/08/2016), Whereabouts
of
missing in Trishuli bus plunge uncertain (ht
29/08/2016), Trishuli
bus
crash:
3 bodies found (kp 31/08/2016), Families
of
Trishuli bus accident victims still waiting for
information (ht 02/09/2016)
Government
fails
to curb increasing road fatalities (ht
27/08/2016)
At
least
48 hurt as bus carrying wedding guests skids off
road: According to police, the 25-seater bus was
carrying around 60 people when the accident took
place (kp 26/08/2016)
Highways
of
death: Transport syndicates guarded by greedy
politicians and corrupt bureaucrats kill six
Nepalis on the road every day, by Santa Gaha
Magar (nt 26/08/2016)
First
ever
road tunnel at risk of falling into ruins, by
Pratap Bista (kp 26/08/2016)
Cops
to
fine motorists using pressure horns (ht
25/08/2016)
New
Sajha
buses to hit streets soon (ht 25/08/2016)
Pedestrians
account
for 40 pc of all road fatalities (kp
24/08/2016)
Govt
bars
local bodies from issuing permits to public
vehicles: The decision follows a bus accident in
Kavrepalanchok on Aug 15 in which over two dozen
people were killed, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
24/08/2016)
Transport
operators hike fares after overload ban, by
Rekha Bhusal (rep 22/08/2016)
Vehicle
ban
on unauthorised roads hits locals (ht
21/08/2016)
Growing
traffic
fatalities in Prithvi Highway: Reckless driving,
poor road to blame (kp 20/08/2016), Stakeholders
agree
to improve passenger safety (kp20/08/2016), Syndicate
continues
to flourish unabated: Worn-out vehicles carry
passengers thrice their seating capacities (kp
20/08/2016)
Road
accidents
claimed 537 lives in western region last fiscal
(ht 20/08/2016)
Traffic
offences
on decline (ht 20/08/2016)
Vehicles
without
permit face travel prohibition, by Nagendra
Adhikari (kp 19/08/2016)
More
than
120,000 apply for cab licence (kp 18/08/2016)
PM
Dahal
directs an end to transport syndicate (ht
18/08/2016), Syndicates
in public transport enjoy party protection: Baniya,
by Siromani Dhungana (rep 18/08/2016)
Four
die
in bus collision (ht 18/08/2016), 4 die,
29 injured in Chitwan bus collision, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (rep 18/08/2016)
Dilapidated
road
frustrates locals (ht 18/08/2016)
Five
deaths
in road accidents reported every day last fiscal
(ht 18/08/2016)
Bike
registrations
soar outside Bagmati zone, by Prahlad Rijal
(kp 17/08/2016)
Road
expansion
project stalled (ht 17/08/2016)
Karnali
Highway blues: A narrow road plagued by landslides,
by DB Buda (rep 16/08/2016)
Only
harsher laws can deter reckless drivers: DIG Aryal,
by Gyan P. Neupane (rep 16/08/2016), Road
kill:
Govt must invest in safer roads and strengthen
transport regulations (kp 17/08/2016), Take
strict
action: The traffic police for
their part are often absent in the rural roads and
those that are there do not seem to be taking
their duty seriously (ht 17/08/2016)
At
least
25 killed as bus veers off road in Kavre: 28 of 43
injured airlifted to Kathmandu for treatment,
by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 16/08/2016), Two
passengers
‘critical’ (kp 17/08/2016), Deceased
in
Kavre accident identified (ht 17/08/2016), Kin
refuse
to receive bodies, seek succour, by Nagendra
Adhikari (kp 17/08/2016), Mass
cremation
of Kavre bus crash victims (kp 18/08/2016)
Palpa-Nawalparasi
road
heavily damaged, by Madhav Aryal (kp
09/08/2016)
Karnali
Highway blocked since past two days, by
Pabitra Kumar Shahi (rep 09/08/2016)
Travellers
stranded
by transport strike in mid-western region, by
Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 08/08/2016)
Auto
registration
in Bagmati up 78pc: Car, jeep and van segment sees
105.6pc rise; heavy equipment surges threefold;
two-wheeler segment posts 7.47pc rise, by
Prahlad Rijal (kp 07/08/2016)
Six
tuins
replaced with suspension bridges since Oct (kp
06/08/2016)
Landslides
obstruct
Sanfe-Martadi road section (ht 06/08/2016)
Causeway
floods
affect traffic along Lamahi-Tulsipur road (kp
05/08/2016)
Risky
journeys:
Ageing transport infrastructures are becoming
increasingly vulnerable to floods and landslides,
by Navin Singh Khadka (kp 05/08/2016)
Troublesome
Mugling-Narayanghat turns into poor man's road,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel and Narahari Sapkota (rep
03/08/2016)
Mid-Hill
Lokmarga Highway faces contractor delays, by
Giri Raj Banskota (kp 03/08/2016)
Roads
constructed
sans survey causing recurrent landslips (ht
02/08/2016)
Nine
dead,
31 injured in Makwanpur road accident (kp
01/08/2016)
Are
our highways deathtraps?, by Siromani Dhungana
(rep 01/08/2016)
Landslides
adding to woes of commuters, by Ramesh
Khatiwada (rep 01/08/2016)
Road
obstruction
affects supply of daily essentials (ht
01/08/2016)
Rain-induced
landslides
block Araniko Highway (kp 31/07/2016)
Landslips
obstruct
Mid-hill Highway (ht 31/07/2016)
Bhaktapur-Banepa
road
lacks pavements (ht 31/07/2016)
MTPD
launches
SMS complaint service (ht 31/07/2016)
13
killed,
27 injured as bus veers off road, by Ramesh
Chandra Adhikari (kp 29/07/2016)
Haphazard
road
construction puts settlements at risk (ht
29/07/2016)
Tales
of Kathmandu Traffic, by Kalu Maila (rep
29/07/2016)
Many
under-construction
bridges in limbo (ht 28/07/2016)
23
injured
in bus accident, eight in critical condition
(kp 27/07/2016)
Landslides
block
Mechi Highway (ht 27/07/2016)
Energy
Ministry
letter halts work on Mid-Hill Highway, by Tika
Prasad Bhatta (kp 26/07/2016)
166
died
on Valley roads last year: Lack of respect for
traffic rules by both pedestrians and drivers
cited as a major cause of high number of deaths
(kp 25/07/2016)
Land
pooling for outer ring road, housing starts,
by Gyan P.Neupane (rep 25/07/2016)
Khimti-Those
road
blocked by landslide (ht 24/07/2016)
KTM-Tarai
fast
track project: Ministry invites EoI to appoint
consultant (kp 20/07/2016)
Chinese
help
sought for Humla road (kp 19/07/2016)
Road
in
danger (ht 18/07/2016)
26-km
track
to link Barhabise with Tatopani, by Anish
Tiwari (kp 17/07/2016)
Pavements
crumble
before completion (kp 17/07/2016)
49
killed
in accidents in Tanahun last fiscal (ht
17/07/2016)
Road
disruption
from Narayangadh to Muglin hits tourism hard
(ht 15/07/2016)
Birgunj-Pathlaiya
road
to have six lane (ht 15/07/2016)
Bajhang
folks
free two engineers after 22 hours (kp
14/07/2016)
Potholes
appear in newly-built Hulaki Highway, by
Yogesh Rawal (kp 13/07/2016)
Only
4 Mugu VDCs have roads, by Suman Malla (rep
13/07/2016)
Delay
in
bridge repair affects Darchula villages, by
Manoj Badu (kp 11/07/2016)
IB
hikes
accident cover for passengers to Rs 500,000,
by Rajesh Khanal (kp 09/07/2016), Pay
Rs
1,500, get insurance coverage of over Rs 6.6 m
(ht 09/07/2016)
Road
fatalities
in Kathmandu Valley hit five-year high (ht
08/07/2016)
Incessant
rainfall
obstructs far-west rural roads (ht
08/07/2016)
Delay
in
construction of bridges in Rukum puts commuters
and locals in a lurch (ht 08/07/2016)
Tamor
corridor
works fail to speed up: Construction not given
priority in South-North project (ht
06/07/2016)
Road
expansion
drive resumes: Road expansion drive was halted
due to the earthquake and Indian blockade last
year (kp 05/07/2016) [Monsoon is the best time for this?],
Road
expansion
work: Taking a bit too long?, by Sunita
Lohani (ht 09/07/2016)
Landslips
obstruct
Narayangadh-Muglin road, by Tilakram Rimal
(ht 02/07/2016)
Water
truck,
tipper drivers to blame for 30 pc accidents
(ht 01/07/2016)
Narayanghat-Mugling
road prone to landslides, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (rep 30/06/2016)
Sajha’s
new
buses to arrive in August: Sajha Yatayat is
buying 30 40-seater buses with spacious aisle,
which will be disabled-friendly (kp
28/06/2016)
Another
underground
parking on cards (kp 26/06/2016)
Passengers
killed
in road accidents likely to get Rs 500k
compensation (ht 25/06/2016)
Road
block
cleared after 13 hrs, by Shiva Puri (kp
24/06/2016)
Stiffer
fines
deter traffic rule violators (ht 24/06/2016)
Traffic
cops
find relief under smart gazebos, by Anup
Ojha (kp 24/06/2016)
Look
both
ways: Traffic-violation fines should be raised
further, and proper road signs should also be in
place, by Prakash Bom (kp 21/06/2016)
China
extends
road to Korala border point: Chinese vehicles
have started to enter Nepal through the
newly-built dirt track, by Binod Tripathi
(kp 20/06/2016)
Narayangadh-Muglin
road
opens after nine hours, by Tilak Ram Rimal
(ht 19/06/2016)
Only
five
out of 365 traffic lights working in Kathmandu
Valley, by Anup Ojha (kp 18/06/2016)
Govt
directed
to start blacktopping of roads (ht
15/06/2016)
NLIP
canal
encroached (kp 15/06/2016)
Cantilever
bridge
built in upper Gorkha, by Sudip Kaini (kp
14/06/2016)
Rs
2.15
billion sought to install solar lights (ht
12/06/2016)
Road
accidents
continue unabated (ht 12/06/2016)
Belbas-Nuwakot
track
work starts (kp 10/06/2016)
Rs
1b
released to install solar lights in 96
municipalities: The amount accounts for 65
percent of the govt subsidy to each municipality
for promotion of solar energy (kp
08/06/2016)
Urban
cable
car project: French mission submits report
(kp 07/06/2016), Feasibility
report
for Cable Car Project in Valley submitted
(ht 07/06/2016), Bauddha
to
Tahachal in 30 minutes by cable car!, by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 08/06/2016)
Daily
closure
of Narayanghat-Mugling road to be lifted from
June 15, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep
06/06/20916)
Investors
aside:
Not concluding negotiation with the Indian
company is likely to discourage foreign
investors, by Sarin Ghimire (kp 05/06/2016)
Ilam
locals
elated as hydro projects construct roads, by
Biplav Bhattarai (kp 05/06/2016)
KMC
to
build four disabled-friendly overhead bridges
(rep 04/06/2016)
Outer
ring
road: Budget pledge breathes life to stalled
project, by Anup Ojha (kp 03/06/2016)
Infrastructure
and
development: Fast-track road can be completed on
time if the political parties do not interfere,
by Jagannath Adhikari (kp 03/06/2016)
Construction
company
abandons bridge project, by Prakash Adhikari
(kp 02/06/2016)
5
dead in Okhaldhunga tractor accident (ht
02/06/2016)
‘Lack
of
policy’ likely to slow electric vehicle sales,
by Prahlad Rijal (kp 01/06/2016)
Lack
of
proper drainage management bothering locals of
Kathmandu, by Shraddha Amatya (rep
31/05/2016)
Dispute
over
Kailali postal road yet to be resolved (ht
30/05/2016)
Bad
roads
causing accidents (ht 29/05/2016)
7
killed in jeep crash (kp 27/05/2015)
Govt
prepares
to hike Road Repair and Maintenance Fee, by
Sujan Dhungana (rep 25/05/2016)
Kathmandu
to
adopt intelligent traffic system, by Anup
Ojha (kp 24/05/2016)
'Fund
completion
of Postal Highway in 3 years', by Gyan P.
Neupane (rep 24/05/2016)
Upgradation
of
Galchhi-Syafrubesi road: Govt plans to issue
tender in a week (kp 23/05/2016)
City
of
chaos: The total length of vehicles operating in
Kathmandu Valley is greater than the length of
its roads, by Bimal Pratap Shah (kp
22/05/2016)
85km
road
connecting Mugu and Tibet: Just 10km built in 10
years, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 22/05/2016)
‘China’s
OBOR
project will also benefit Nepal’ (ht
22/05/2016)
Saptari’s
first
ever blacktopped road in dilapidated condition
(ht 22/05/2016)
9
dead in Lamjung bus accident (kp 20/05/2016)
Kaligandaki
link
road becomes operational (ht 20/05/2016)
Crazy
mules
don’t follow traffic rules, by Kalu Malla
(rep 20/05/2016)
CoAS
inaugurates
Kaligandaki corridor (ht 19/05/2016)
80
small
road projects converted into multi-year projects,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 19/05/2016)
Row
stalls
bridge operation (ht 19/05/2016)
Hulaki
Highway
construction hit by budget crunch, by Ritesh
Tripathi (rep 19/05/2016)
Four
killed
in Lahan bike collision (kp 19/05/2016)
Nepal
can
build Fast Track on its own, by Rudra
Pangeni (rep 17/05/2016)
Koteshwor-Kalanki
road
expansion delayed by a year, by Prahlad
Rijal (kp 16/05/2016)
Decision
to
hike fines for traffic rule violations takes
effect (kp 15/05/2016)
Negligence
at
the wheel, by Sunita Lohani (ht 14/05/2016)
Work
of
Postal Highway still halted (rep 14/05/2016)
Traffic
offenders
get 15 days to reclaim licence (ht
14/05/2016)
Jorsal-Tamor
stretch
to be blacktopped (ht 14/05/2016)
Sluggish
upgradation
of highway causing daily traffic snarls, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 13/05/2016)
No
domestic
investment in fast track road: Deuba, by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 11/05/2016) [??], Deuba
refutes
news on Kathmandu-Nijgadh track (ht
12/05/2016)
E-scooters
going
nowhere due to lack of clear policy, by
Prahlad Rijal (kp 10/05/2016)
Inclusive
transport:
Let the motorists pay for building urban
highways and widening roads, not all of us,
by Prashanta Khanal (kp 10/05/2016)
Syndicate
enforcers
block Tulsipur-Rukum highway, by Durga Lal KC (kp 09/05/2016)
Project
delay
leaves Biratnagar folk ill at ease, by Binod
Bhandari (kp 08/05/2016)
Road
accidents
on the rise in Tanahun (ht 08/05/2016)
Jaleshwar
locals
demand immediate road repair, by Mahesh
Kumar Das (rep 07/05/2016)
Parking
made
easy: One effect of road-widening campaign has
been a sudden increase in number of roadside
parking, by Hemant Arjyal (rep 07/05/2016)
Two-way
traffic:
One way to reduce the idiocy of drivers is to
ensure that the rules are equally sensible,
by Deepak Thapa (kp 05/05/2017)
Traffic
rules
violqations: Transporters protest hike on fines
(kp 05/05/2016), On
the
road: Complaining about fines is the wrong way
to go about ensuring traffic safety (kp
06/05/2016)
Old
Bus
Park moved to Khula Manch (ht 04/05/2016), Khulamanch
serves
as temporary bus station, by Anup Ojha (kp
05/05/2016), New
tower
leaves shopowners at Old Bus Park in limbo,
by Anup Ojha (kp 10/05/2016)
Quake
damaged
trails in disrepair (kp 04/05/2016)
Caught
in
traffic jam? Consult ‘Traffic Police, Nepal’
app (ht 01/05/2016)
Postal
highway
project: Ministry seeks another Rs5b: The extra
money is meant for beginning construction of
unfinished sections (kp 30/04/2016)
New
figures
show rise in road fatalities (ht 28/04/2016)
Khulamanch
to
be used as temporary bus park in capital (ht
23/04/2016)
Govt
urged
to invest in cycle-friendly roads (kp
22/04/2016)
Roads
For Development, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
21/04/2016)
Road
construction
raises capital's pollution level, by Isha
Pandey (rep 21/04/2016)
Motorcyclist
dies
in Bhaktapur truck hit (kp 19/04/2016)
Simikot
road
construction moving at snail’s pace: Delays in
building a bridge over the Karnali River have
prevented motor vehicles from using the road
sections that have been completed, by Jaya
Bahadur Rokaya (kp 19/04/2016)
Road
kill:
Road accidents in Nepal often do not get the
same attention in comparison to other accidents
or deaths resulting therefrom, by Jagannath
Adhikari (kp 19/04/2016), Murderous
Traffic Problems, by Shyam KC (rn
19/04/2016), Year
2072: Year Of Accidents And Deaths, by Prem
Khatry (rn 19/04/2016)
29
injured
in bus accident (kp 18/04/2016)
Better
roads
imperative to boost trade (ht 17/04/2016)
Three
killed
in road accident (kp 16/04/2016)
300
road
rule violators held with cam help (kp
16/04/2016)
Road
connectivity
results in house building spree, by Tula Ram
Pandey (kp 16/04/2016)
18
injured
in jeep accident (ht 15/04/2016)
Pedalling
the
future: Bicyclists campaign to reclaim the
streets of Kathmandu, by Michael Nishimura
(nt 15/04/2016)
New
Year
accidents: 1 dead, 14 hurt (kp 14/04/2016),
Eight
killed
in Doti jeep crash, by Mohan Shahi (kp
14/04/2016), Jeep
accident
leaves eight dead; Doti village mourns (ht
14/04/2016)
24
killed
as bus veers off road in Khotang: All injured
brought to Capital, condition of 8 critical,
by Dambar Singh Rai (kp 13/04/2016), Twenty-four
killed
in Khotang bus accident, by Dilip Khatri (ht
13/04/2016), Kin
of
bus accident victim obstruct road (ht
16/04/2016)
Locals
stage
protest rally demanding compensation (ht
11/04/2016)
Construction
of
outer ring road from next fiscal year (rep
11/04/2016), Construction
of
outer ring road in Valley to start from next
fiscal (ht 16/04/2016)
Three
years
on, road repairs in limbo, by Jitendra Kumar
Jha (kp 09/04/2016)
Registration
of
e-scooters hits snag: Owners lack documents to
verify the legality of their eco-friendly bikes
(ht 08/04/2016)
3
Tuins replaced with bridges: The government last
October announced to replace over 350 Tuins with
suspension bridges (kp 07/04/2016)
Applications
approved
for 8,000 solar lights, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
06/04/2016)
18
passengers
hurt in Lamjung bus accdent (ht 06/04/2016)
Shaming
sardines:
Microbuses could break-even with just 9 of the
16 seats taken, which comes to 56 percent
occupancy, by Hemant Arjyal (rep 05/04/2015)
Shortest
road
to China in two years, says Army, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 03/04/2016)
12,848
booked
for traffic rule violations in six days (ht
03/04/2016)
Crackdown
on
drink-driving reduces road accidents (ht
02/04/2016)
Shortage
of
raw materials: Butwal-Belhiya road project hit,
by Amrita Anmol (kp 01/04/2016)
Delays
may
hit electric bus plan (kp 31/03/2016)
Traffic
police
strapped with GoPro cameras, by Anuj Kumar
Adhikari (kp 30/03/2016)
Balaju
locals
file writ against road expansion, by Gaurav
Thapa (kp 28/03/2016)
Govt
plan
to implement law on old public vehicles hits
roadblock, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
27/03/2016)
Sajha
to
bring 30 new buses (kp 25/03/2016)
Darchula
awaits
suspension bridge over Mahakali, by Manoj
Badu (kp 25/03/2015)
Kathmandu-Tarai
fast
track road: Govt told to build project on its
own, by Bibek Subedi (kp 21/03/2016)
Two
dead,
30 hurt in bus accident (kp 19/03/2016)
Recommendations
for
compensation (ht 17/03/2017)
Damaged
bridges,
trails cuts village off from outside world
(rep 17/03/2016)
Registration
mandatory
for electric scooters (kp 15/03/2016)
Mahanagar
Yatayat
rolls out 39 buses for Ring Road (kp
14/03/2016), 39
high-tech
luxury city buses start rolling in capital
(ht 14/03/2016), Mahanagar
bus
vandalised, by Anup Ojha (kp 15/03/2016)
Six
persons
killed in road accidents (kp 13/03/2016)
Khotang
residents
demand reparation (ht 12/03/2016)
A
peddler’s dreams, by Priyanka Gurung (rep
11/03/2016)
Bumper
to
bumper: Unfortunately people in most developing
countries think that public transport is
intended for the poor, by Ashish Gajurel (kp
10/03/2016)
Drink
and
ride e-scooter with impunity: Cops can’t act, as
riders don’t need licence, number plate (ht
10/03/2016)
New
Bus
Park to have state-of-the-art facilities (ht
09/03/2016), Work
begins
to expand bus park at Gangabu (kp
10/03/2016)
Seven
killed,
27 injured in separate road accidents, by
Kamal Panthi and DR Panta (kp 07/03/2016)
Roads
to
Nagarkot getting expanded: Locals say cutting of
hills for road widening is complete and
the works of filling trenches along the
road are under way, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
02/03/2016)
Taxis
fleece
passengers (kp 02/03/2016)
Birgunj-Pathlaiya
road
section to be upgraded to six lanes, by
Ritesh Tripathi (rep 01/03/2016)
Govt
begins
process to light up streets with solar power:
The programme is aimed at reducing the burden of
load-shedding (ht 29/02/2016)
Mid-Hill
Highway
construction in limbo (ht 28/02/2016)
One
dies,
20 hurt in accident (kp 27/02/2016)
KMC
plans
big underground parking, subway, by Anup
Ojha (kp 25/02/2016)
Protest
after
bus runs over 18-yr-old (kp 24/02/2016)
For
normalcy:
Once the Rasuwa-Syafrubesi road linking Tibet’s
Keyrung customs point is widened, Nepal will no
longer need to rely on a single country for
petroleum products (ht 24/02/2016)
Flood
of
fear: Haphazard construction of roads cutting
through forests has increased the instances of
landslide, putting villagers downstream in great
peril, by Devendra Gautam (rep 23/02/2016)
Valley
road
expansion drive reaches Tinkune: KVDA has so far
widened 200km road inside Kathmandu, 30 km
inside Lalitpur and 7km inside Bhaktapur, by
Gaurav Thapa (kp 22/02/2016)
Reorganising
Kathmandu’s
public transportation, by John Narayan
Parajuli (kp 20/02/2016)
Teku
and
Dallu to get new bridges, by Anup Ojha (kp
19/02/2016)
India
not
to inject fresh funds into Postal Road, by
Devendra Bhattarai and Bhushan Yadav (kp
19/02/2016)
Unupdated
road
data causes hardship: The SNRTP has upgraded
2,221km of road in 33 districts while a further
5,376 km of roads are being maintained
periodically or routinely (kp 18/02/2016)
Electric
bus
operations: China team to visit Capital for
feasibility study: KMC (kp 15/02/2016), Missing
the
wood: Piecemeal approach to transportation will
only complicate urban commuting (kp
16/02/2016)
8
injured in jeep crash (kp 15/02/2016)
Solar
street
lamp project: Municipalities start taking
applications, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
14/02/2016)
Kathmandu-Hetauda
Tunnel
Highway: NPBCL board members to boost investment
(ht 13/02/2016)
Roads
linking
Nepal with China prioritised (ht 13/02/2016)
Road
expansion
drive resumes: The KVRIP has expanded the 2km
stretch from Tripureshwor to Teku in the first
phase, by Anup Ojha (kp 12/02/2016)
Safe
travel
a far cry in Dadeldhura (ht 10/02/2016)
Road
kill:
Road traffic accidents are mostly manmade and
can be prevented, by Namra Kumar Mahato (kp
09/02/2016)
11
killed
in Nuwakot road accident, by Prakash
Adhikari (kp 07/02/2016), 11
people,
including seven soldiers, killed in accident
(ht 07/02/2016)
Kathmandu-Hetauda
Tunnel
Highway: 90 pc of Rs 317m collected already
spent; Liability of Rs 200m to Full Bright
Consultancy in dispute, by Rudra Pangeni
(rep 06/02/2016)
Kathmandu-Hetauda
tunnel
controversy: Small investors accuse Joshi of
irregularities; But he denies charges, blames
two board members for the current mess in the
company (kp 03/02/2016)
Street
lamp:
Govt to offer huge subsidy for solar project,
by Gaurav Thapa (kp 01/02/2016)
Works
on
Kaligandaki Corridor gather pace, by Madhav
Aryal and Prakas Baral (kp 30/01/2016)
Battling
it
out on Kathmandu roads, by Priyanka Gurung
(rep 29/01/2016)
Barpak
bridges
escaped major damage: DoR (kp 28/01/2016)
Nepalgunj-Jamunaha
road
expansion: Contractor blamed for delay, by
Janak Nepal (kp 28/01/2016), Contractors
delay
road projects citing blockade, by Devendra
Basnet (rep 28/01/2016)
Capital’s
cyclists
let down by lukewarm govt response: Independent
groups of cyclists and urban planners have been
lobbying for proper cycle tracks in the Valley
(kp 27/01/2016)
Building
a
road: The repairs of roads that were damaged by
recent earthquakes have now become a major
challenge, by Sharad K. Shrestha (rep
27/01/2016)
Dharan-Chatara-Gaighat
road:
Travellers suffer due to transportation
syndicate (kp 25/01/2016)
Two
lakh
booked for drink-driving in four years, millions
collected in revenue (ht 24/01/2016)
Lalitpur
envisions
plan to improve its transportation: The plan is
expected to address the concerns like traffic
mismanagement by prioritising road network
development, by Prahlad Rijal (kp
20/01/2016)
Animal-friendly
road
to be constructed in Chitwan: Rs 900 million has
been allocated for the construction (ht
20/01/2016)
Dharan-Chatara-Sindhuli-Hetauda
road
to be blacktopped within 3 yrs, by Rudra
Pangeni (rep 19/01/2016)
Villagers
lose
fingers to Bagmati river Tuin, by Pratap
Bista (kp 18/01/2016)
Ring
Road
expansion resumes: Slow pace of construction has
greatly inconvenienced commuters and local
residents alike, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
17/01/2016)
Government’s
new
luxury taxicab plan hits roadblock (kp
15/01/2016)
No
excuses
for travelling on bus roof, warn valley traffic
police (kp 11/01/2016)
Smart
driving
license: Technical issues delay pilot-test
(kp 10/01/2016)
Vehicle
to
road length ratio dismal, says DIGP Chand
(ht 10/01/2016)
7
killed, 22 injured in Dang accident, by
Durgalal KC (kp 07/01/2016)
Gaighat-Diktel
road:
Sunkoshi bridge comes into operation; The
government, however, is yet to construct bridges
over many other rivers along the highway, by
Dilli Ram Khatiwada (kp 07/01/2016)
NA
to
repair Betrawati road (kp 07/01/2016)
Govt
told
to pull out all stops for Galchhi road: The
panel has asked the government to draw a
concrete plan of the road that goes up to China
(kp 07/01/2016)
Roads
to
Nagarkot in poor condition (kp 04/01/2016)
6
killed, 16 hurt in Rupandehi bus accident,
by Amrita Anmol (kp 04/01/2016)
Road
to
nowhere: Many road sections dug up for the
expansion purposes in the Kathmandu Valley are
still in a state of disrepair, with various
unpleasant consequences (ht 04/01/2016)
KMC
bringing
in more public buses for Valley: Metropolis
plans to import around 25 electric buses, which
will be operated by Sajha Yatayat, in first
phase, by Gaurav Thapa (kp 02/01/2016)
8
hurt in road accident (kp 02/01/2015)
Agreement
reached
to end syndicate in Dang, by Durgalal KC (kp
02/01/2016)
Chitwan
traffic
police tightens security to curb road accidents
(ht 31/12/2015)
Diktel-Khotang
road
stretch inoperative, awaiting repairs (ht
31/12/2015)
Rule
breach
still a common sight on Capital’s roads (kp
30/12/2015)
Authorities
helpless
to curb public transport anomalies (kp
27/12/2015)
Bridge
still
in limbo after one decade (kp 25/12/2015)
Govt
planning
to install solar-run street lamps (kp
24/12/2015)
KUKL
to
repair roads dug for water pipeline (kp
24/12/2015)
Karnali
Corridor
project picks up steam with NA in charge, by
Tularam Pandey (kp 22/12/2015)
‘Allow
all
vehicles on BP Highway’ (ht 22/12/2015)
Two
killed,
nine injured in road accidents (kp
21/12/2015)
Kamalbinayak,
Nagarkot
road awaits maintenance (kp 20/12/2015)
Environment
friendly
vehicle: Guideline delay pegs back Transport
Policy-2014 (kp 20/12/2015)
KMC,
Sajha
to operate electric buses in Valley (ht
19/12/2015)
1
dead, over 35 injured in bus accident (kp
18/12/2015)
Taking
the
high road: Manang will not just survive, but
prosper from its new road, by Seukji Lee (nt
18/12/2015)
Locals
demand
upgradation of Dharan-Gaighat road, by
Dilliram Khatiwada and Binod Bhandari (kp
18/12/2015)
House
panel
directs govt to repair Araniko Highway (kp
17/12/2015)
Traffic
rules
remain relaxed in Valley, by Gaurav Thapa
(kp 10/12/2015)
Nepal
formally
adopts digital driving licence (kp
01/12/2015)
Imports
through
Kerung route ‘not impossible’ (kp
30/11/2015)
Nepal
to
request China to expand Araniko Highway (kp
29/11/2015)
4
dead, 9 hurt as bus turns over, by Jitendra
Khadga (kp 26/11/2015)
Cycle-friendly
Kathmandu
valley: Govt urged to implement plans (kp
25/11/2015)
Bajhang-Tibet
road
construction to open opportunities for traders
(ht 23/11/2015)
Drainage
in
Tinkune to end waterlogging (kp 22/11/2015)
Electrified
transportation:
The blockade should be a wakeup call for the
government to actively promote electric
transport, by Sahina Shrestha (nt
20/11/2015)
ADB,
MCC
asked to fund highway expansion: Govt has
announced its plan to widen the highway to four
lanes in the budget, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 19/11/2015)
Five
die
in separate road accidents (ht 18/11/2015)
Sajha
Yatayat
launches card payment system in Capital, by
Anup Ojha (kp 17/11/2015)
Govt
to
study feasible roads (ht 17/11/2015)
Shortage
disrupts
upgradation of Manthali-Ramechhap road (ht
17/11/2015)
Karnali
highway:
Bridge projects left incomplete, by LP
Devkota (kp 16/11/2015)
Road
to
be widened in Dhangadi (ht 16/11/2015)
15
injured
in truck accident (kp 16/11/2015)
3
dead, over 50 injured in Myagdi bus accident
(kp 14/11/2015), 4
die, 20 injured when microbus falls off road in
Myagdi, by Bharat Koirala and Rishi Ram
Baral (ht 14/11/2015), 3
dead, 36 hurt in bus accident (kp
15/11/2015)
APF
to
provide free bus service: APF says it will
prioritise the ailing, elderly and disabled for
the service (kp 12/11/2015)
Promote
eco-friendly
vehicles: Experts (kp 12/11/2015)
Four
die
in motorcycle accident, by Shiva Puri (kp
11/11/2015)
20
years
on, govts fail to implement Transport Act
(kp 08/11/2015)
Locals
to
support construction of trade routes with China,
by Khagendra Adhikari (rep 07/11/2015)
Road
accidents
on rise due to risky traveling, by Nagendra
Adhikari (kp 05/11/2015)
35
dead,
over 50 hurt in bus plunge, by Krishna Thapa
(kp 04/11/2015), Bus
skids
off road killing 35, more than 35 injured
(ht 04/11/2014)
Nepal,
China
to reopen Khasa route at earliest, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 04/11/2015)
Government
fails
to formulate electric vehicles guidelines
(kp 04/11/2015)
Having
brought
in fuel, drivers demand Rasuwa road upgrade,
by Harihar Singh Rathaur (kp 03/11/2015)
Ten
injured
as transporters clash (ht 02/11/2015)
Traffic
police
to vehicle ratio dismal: MTPD (ht
01/11/2015)
House
panel
asks government to upgrade roads along
Nepal-China border points (rep 30/10/2015)
‘Smart’
driving
licences to be issued by Dec: The new system is
expect-ed to end duplication of licences, blue
books and other documents related to vehicles
(kp 28/10/2015)
Bridges
await
repair in Khotang (ht 28/10/2015)
Transporters
fleece
Dashain travellers, by Madhav Aryal, Aman
Koirala and Agandhar Tiwari (kp 26/10/2015)
93
accidents
reported in Valley (kp 26/10/2015), Road
fatalities
up during Dashain (ht 26/10/2015), Three
dead,
many injured in road accidents (rep
26/10/2015), 3
dead, 31 injured in two road accidents (kp
27/10/2015)
Three
dead,
20 hurt in separate road accidents (kp
20/10/2015), Banke
bus
accident death toll climbs to eight (kp
21/10/2015), Police
keep
eye on supply of fuel in passenger buses (kp
24/10/2015), Traffic
accidents:
Fuel dearth sparks another crisis, by Manish
Gautam (kp 25/10/2015)
Villagers
depend
on animals to ferry goods, by Chandra Karki
(kp 18/10/2015)
Rasuwagadhi-Kerung
crossing:
Nepal-China border reopens, by Krishna Thapa
(kp 16/10/2015) [Six
months after the big quake! Thank you,
incompetent politicians!], Kerung
route
reopened after nearly six months (ht
16/10/2015)
NA
opens
passage for Kaligandaki Corridor, by Bishal
Bhattarai (rep 16/10/2015)
4
die, 60 hurt in road accidents (kp
14/10/2015)
Govt
to
replace all Tuins with suspension bridges in 2
years (kp 13/10/2015), Dhading
locals
sceptical about tuin removal (ht 14/10/2015)
Unruly
roads:
The govt and public both need to work together
to reduce accidents (kp 13/10/2015)
Vehicle
shortage
could affect Dashain travel, by Sanjeev Giri
(kp 13/10/2015)
Public
vehicle
routes to be categorised, by Gaurav Thapa
(kp 07/10/2015)
Rickshaws
make
most of acute fuel shortage, by Anup Ojha
(kp 06/10/2015)
Karnali
hands
over first set of driving licences (kp
06/10/2015)
5
dead, 20 injured in Gulmi bus accident, by
Ghanashyam Gautam (kp 06/10/2015)
‘Ktm
Walks’
for sustainable mobility (ht 06/10/2015)
Foot
trail
to Langtang Valley opened: Locals, army and
police have constructed 12 kilometres of trail,
by Krishna Thapa (kp 05/10/2015)
12
years
on, Bheri bridge still incomplete, by Bhim
Bahadur Singh (kp 05/10/2015)
Efforts
are
on to resume Dhunche-Swarfu road: authorities
(kp 04/10/2015)
Dumre-Bayapani
road
blacktopping in limbo (ht 04/10/2015)
Way
cleared
to Tatopani (kp 04/10/2015)
Citizens
use
carpool to go around Valley: Even though there
are around a million vehicles regis-tered in
Bagmati Zone, city roads are less congested due
to the fuel crisis, a result of the border
blockade by India (kp 02/10/2015)
Call
to
make Kathmandu a cycle city (kp 02/10/2015)
Cabinet
defers
decision on KTM-Tarai Fast Track project, by
Rudra Pangeni (ht 02/10/2015), Pact
in
Nepal’s favour: Ministry (kp 04/10/2015), Build
fast
track on own investment: House committee (kp
05/10/2015), No
consensus
on awarding Ktm-Tarai track to Indian firm,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 07/10/2015), SC
stays
bid to award Fast Track deal (kp
09/10/2015), SC
tells
govt to put on hold plans to award Fast Track
project, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 09/10/2015)
Road
clearance
work begins to open Tatopani Customs Office
(ht 01/10/2015), Parties
in
desperate attempt to open Tatopani customs
(ht 02/10/2015)
E-rickshaws
taking
over Nepalgunj, by Rajendra Nath and Thakur
Singh Tharu (kp 30/09/2015)
Govt
fails
to meet road expansion, repair
targets: Only 46 km of road sections
constructed in the capital against a target of
87 km in the last fiscal (kp 27/09/2015), Same
old
excuses (ht 28/09/2015)
Dharan
bridge
collapses (kp 26/09/2015)
26km
access
roads to cement factories built (kp
22/09/2015)
Budget
shortage
delays Bhaktapur Ring Road works: Officials say
the road 52.7 kilometre road connects four
municipalities in the district but only 35
kilometre section has been blacktopped (kp
21/09/2015)
Development
works
fail to deliver expected results: Govt instructs
concerned authorities inside Kathmandu Valley to
complete all road construction works within this
fiscal year (kp 20/09/2015)
Eight
years
on, Panchkatiya road still awaits completion,
by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 20/09/2015)
8
killed in Ramechhap bus crash, by Tika
Bhatta (kp 19/09/2015), Six
Killed,
40 injured in Gairathok bus accident (ht
19/09/2015), 10
die
in Ramechhap bus accident, by Manju Uprety
(rep)
Only
51pc
strategic road network paved (kp 19/09/2015)
Bring
large
buses for public transportation (kp
16/09/2015)
Sinamangal
to
Baneshwor road section incomplete (ht
15/09/2015)
Bagmati
and
Dhobikhola bridges await expansion (kp
14/09/2015)
Contractors’
apathy
delays road work: The project to construct track
of the Mid-Hill Highway in Dailekh district was
initiated in fiscal year 2007/8, by Prakash
Adhikari (kp 14/09/2015)
Renovated
footpaths
to be disabled-friendly (ht 13/09/2015)
Government
to
revise road PIP: To focus on upgrading
existing roads to all-weather category rather
than building new ones (ht 13/09/2015)
Around
2,000
houses to be pulled down for Araniko Highway
expansion (ht 13/09/2015)
KMC,
Sajha
Yatayat to launch night bus service (ht
13/09/2015)
Chabahil-Sankhu
road
expansion on cards (ht 12/09/2015)
Desolated
lamps
in city roads, by Anup Ojha (kp 11/09/2015)
Govt
unlikely
to meet targets for road, bridge construction
(ht 11/09/2015)
New
Karnali
bridge benefits Rajapur folk, by Kamal
Panthi (kp 11/09/2015)
Ktm-Bhaktapur
road
complete (kp 09/09/2015), Damaged
Lokanthali-Kaushaltar
road rehabilitation complete (ht 09/09/2015)
Suspension
bridge
at Tatopani-Ghorepani trail in need of repair,
by Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 08/09/2015)
Road
projects
fail to utilise financial support (ht
08/09/2015)
Vehicle
test
centre non-operational since 2012, by Ramesh
Shrestha (ht 05/09/2015)
KMC
to
install solar street lights in core city areas
(ht 05/09/2015)
DoR
to
test rock-barrier technology at Siddhababa,
by Madhav Aryal (kp 04/09/2015)
India
upgrading
roads along Nepal border, by Devendra
Bhattarai (kp 03/09/2015)
‘Super
deluxe’
buses to ply Pokhara-Kathmandu route (kp
02/09/2015)
Landslides
obstruct
Panchthar roads (ht 02/09/2015)
Roads
damaged
in earthquake to be repaired for Indra Jatra
festival (ht 01/09/2015)
Unruly
transport
in Sindhuli put road safety at risk, by Anil
Bhandari (rep 31/08/2015)
Gaighat-Diktel
road
black-topping delayed (ht 30/08/2015)
Repair
work
on BP Highway kicks off (ht 30/08/2015)
Government’s
plan
to scrap old vehicles yet to be implemented
(ht 27/08/2015)
‘Tremor,
rain
damaged Valley roads’ (ht 27/08/2015)
Tamakoshi-bound
trucks
stranded due to bad road, by Shankar Acharya
(kp 25/08/2015)
Lowest
road
accident casualties recorded in seven years
(kp 20/08/2015)
Sajha
Yatayat
to use e-card to collect fare, by Anup Ojha
(kp 19/08/2015)
KTM-Tarai
fast
track: Can’t work without MRG: Indian firm
(kp 19/08/2015)
Underground
parking
mooted in Khula Manch (ht 15/08/2015)
Work
to
upgrade highway yet to start (ht 15/08/2015)
Road
expansion
sees halt (kp 14/08/2015)
37
autos,
538 bikes sold in Nepal daily, by Sanjeev
Giri (kp 14/08/2015)
Bridge
construction
in limbo (ht 13/08/2015)
Govt
receives
over 4,000 applications to register 1,850 taxis
(ht 13/08/2015)
More
Sajha
buses to ply city roads, by Anup Ojha (kp
12/08/2015), Moving
people:
Kathmandu Metropolitan City should help the
Sajha bus lead by example (kp 18/08/2015)
Auto
registrations
top 2m mark, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 12/08/2015)
MoPIT
to
hold fresh talks on Fast Track road project
(ht 12/08/2015)
18
dead,
over 60 injured in two separate road accidents,
by Giru Bahadur Bhandari and Rabindra Uprety (kp
11/08/2015), Accidents
leave
eight pilgrims, 10 others dead (ht
11/08/2015)
WFP
begins
assessing rural roads (kp 11/08/2015)
Locals
obstruct
road sector at Gokarna and Sundarijal (ht
10/08/2015)
Govt
plans
detailed survey and design of SRN bridges
(ht 10/08/2015)
Contrary
to
KMC claims, several roads in Valley remain
waterlogged: System upgradation and overhaul
under way in a few areas, lament metropolis
officials, by Gaurav Thapa (kp 09/08/2015)
Landslide
obstructs
Darchula-Tinkar road (kp 07/08/2015)
Highway
to
Everest: Road to cross Dudh Koshi by year-end,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 07/08/2015)
Solar
light
project receives Rs 60m, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
06/08/2015)
Araniko
highway
reopened (kp 06/08/2015), Road
cleared
for vehicles but danger ‘lurks’ (kp
07/08/2015), Bahrabise-Tatopani
section
of Araniko Highway reopens, by Rudra Pangeni
(rep 07/08/2015)
Road
accidents
up in far-west despite efforts (ht
06/08/2015)
Change
in
plan for new taxi registration (ht
05/08/2015), Applications
flood
in for new taxi licences, by Sanjeev Giri
(kp 10/08/2015)
Koshi
bridge
inaugurated, by Dilli Ram Khatiwada and
Bedraj Poudel (kp 04/08/2015), Prime
minister
inaugurates new Koshi Bridge (ht 04/08/2015)
Joint
team
starts road reopening (kp 02/08/2015), Nepali,
Chinese
security forces clearing blockage (ht
02/08/2015)
Kathmandu-Tarai
fast-track
road: Govt told to start project early (kp
31/07/2015), Ktm
to
Nijgadh in under 1 hour: DPR, by Sanjeev
Giri (kp 01/08/2015), KTM-Nijgadh
fast
track: India assures new soft loans to Nepal
(kp 05/08/2015), Sub-committee
set
up to study Fast Track (kp 06/08/2015), Sub-committee
to
probe Fast Track details (ht 06/08/2015), NPC
nod
for Fast Track deal with India firm, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 08/07/2015)
Maitighar-
Tinkune
track in dismal state, decry cyclists (kp
31/07/2015)
First
phase
of East-West postal road complete, by Mohan
Budhair (kp 31/07/2015)
KMC
to
buy vehicles for new bus service, by Gaurav
Thapa (kp 30/07/2015)
Cabbies
protest
govt’s decision to add new taxis (kp
30/07/2015)
Diversion
route
created to resume traffic at Gaidakot, by
Bimal Khatiwada (kp 29/07/2015)
Most
rural
roads obstructed in far-western region (ht
28/07/2015)
India
consortium
close to Nijgadh Fast Track deal, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 28/07/2015), BRB
criticises
plan to award Indian cos fast track project
(kp 29/07/2015), Govt
glosses
over soft loan negotiation, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 30/07/2015), Fast
Track
road project runs into controversy (ht
30/07/2015)
Bridge
along
East-West Highway gives way, by Bimal
Khatiwada and Pawan Yadav (kp 28&07/2015)
Bajura
road
projects care two hoots for legal procedures
(ht 27/07/2015)
‘Compensate
small
public vehicles’ (kp 26/07/2015)
Baglung
road
repair work ‘ineffective’, by Prakash Baral
(kp 26/07/2015)
Clean,
green
transport promotion falls short, by Pragati
Shahi (kp 24/07/2015)
‘Action
against
slow road work’ (kp 23/07/2015)
KMC,
Sajha
Yatayat to operate buses (ht 23/07/2015)
Hopeful
Fast
Track builder asks for help with funding, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 22/07/2015)
Tripureshwor-Kalanki-Nagdhunga
road
widening to begin (ht 22/07/2015)
Negotiations
on
Fast Track under way: MoPIT officials say
chances of awarding the contract to IL&FS
consortium are high (ht 21/07/2015)
Tribunal
to
fast-track land acquisition, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 20/07/2015)
Nine
die
in bus-tanker collision, by Bechu Gaud (kp
18/07/2015), Nine
killed
in bus-truck collision (ht 18/07/2015)
Total
road
length crosses 80,000km (ht 13/07/2015)
Budget
plans
to make transport sector eco-friendly (kp
11/07/2015)
Beauty
and
beas: The syndicates rob state lands and build
roads, and once the roads are built they never
let go, by Hitesh Karki (rep 11/07/2015)
Contractor
promises
to complete road construction after street
protest (rep 11/07/2015)
East-West
Highway
to be widened (ht 10/07/2015)
Tardy
road
construction leaves passerby fuming, by Ram
Sharan Tamang (rep 09/07/2015)
5
zones account for 90pc of vehicle registrations
(kp 08/07/2015)
Government
mulls
over using Indian soft credit to build fast
track, by Rupak D. Shatrma (ht 08/07/2015)
At
least
6m proposed width of city roads, by Gaurav
Thapa (kp 06/07/2015)
BP
Highway
handed over (kp 04/07/2015)
No
rides
left: These days rickshaw wallahs who have
decided to stick it out have nothing to do but
shoo away flies and chat with friends, by
Anup Ojha (kp 04/07/2015)
Traders
demand
reopening of Rasuwa-Kyirong road (kp
03/07/2015)
Remote
VDCs
disconnected after bridge collapses (ht
02/07/2015)
IL&FS
submits
Fast Track DPR (ht 02/07/2015)
Valley
to
get 2,850 new taxis, by Ramesh Shrestha (ht
01/07/2015)
Traffic
may
be barred from Tatopani route, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 30/06/2015)
Bhimdatta
Highway
at risk (ht 30/06/2015)
Monsoon
shuts
rural roads in far-west (ht 29/06/2015)
Travelling
by
road risky in quake-hit districts, by
Rajendra Manandhar (kp 25/06/2015), Highways
turn
precarious with arrival of monsoon rains (ht
25/06/2015)
Narayanghat-Mugling
road
upgradation formally begins, by Bhushan
Yadav (kp 25/06/2015)
PM
to
inaugurate Saptakoshi bridge (ht 25/06/2015)
Bagmati
driving
test to begin soon (kp 24/06/2015)
Highways
await
repair, face landslide risk (kp 21/06/2015)
Long,
long
road: The government’s focus on connectivity
rather than safety has made our roads unsafe,
by Ashish Gajurel (kp 21/06/2015)
Locals
riled
at compensation amount: Say the paltry amount
given won’t even buy them a buffalo let alone
land elsewhere (ht 20/06/2015)
Public
vehicle
users face brunt of govt apathy: Study finds
transporters openly flouting number of
rules,including transport fare (ht
19/06/2015)
Buses
with
toilet facilities to ply Pokhara-Kathmandu route,
by Santosh Pokharel (rep 19/06/2015)
Postal
Highway
in Tarai districts: India for early construction
of Phase I (ht 18/06/2015)
Road
maintenance
in Nepal: Most neglected aspect, by Krishna
Singh Basnet (kp 17/06/2015)
MoF
clears
new number plate plan: Global tender likely to
be called by government next fiscal year (ht
15/06/2015)
Panel
suggests
govt to add 2,350 taxis: Committee recommends
registration for 500 cabs be allotted for
quake-affected drivers, by Ramesh Shrestha
(ht 12/06/2015)
Nepali
envoy
urges India to upgrade border roads (kp
10/06/2015)
Number
of
stray cattle up in capital, by Thomas Bogaty
(ht 09/06/2015)
Locals
place
warnings to deter reckless drivers in inner
roads of Kathmandu Valley, by Thomas Bogaty
(ht 07/06/2015)
Road
construction
causing rampant logging in rural areas of Bajura
(ht 07/06/2015)
Fast
Track
EIA suggests 10pc environmental bond: MoPIT has
sent the report to MoSTE for feedback (ht
07/06/2015)
3
die in separate accidents (kp 06/06/2015)
Beni-Jomson
road:
DoR starts clearing blocked highway, by
Hanashyam Khadka (kp 05/06/2015)
Khotang
locals
build road on their own (ht 04/06/2015)
DoR
engineers
inspect bridges (kp 03/06/2015)
Rehabilitation,
reconstruction
of SRN roads to cost Rs 3.5bn (ht
01/06/2015)
Three
die
as truck and ambulance collide (ht
01/06/2015)
It
will
take a month to reopen Beni-Jomsom road (ht
28/05/2015)
Plan
for
new cab registration hits roadblock: Fearing
competition,transport entrepreneurs demand
government to only replace old taxis (ht
28/05/2015)
Officials,
contractors
accused of using substandard materials, by
Awadhesh Kumar Jha (kp 25/05/2015)
Quake
damages
Sindhuli-Khurkot road (ht 23/05/2015)
Vehicles
barred
in some parts of city (ht 22/05/2015)
Road
service
resumes in Gorkha villages (ht 21/05/2015)
16
dead
in separate road accidents (kp 19/05/2015),
17
dead,62
injured in two accidents (ht 19/05/2015)
Visual
assessment
of cracked roads on: Department of Roads (ht
19/05/2015)
Road
expansion
resumes (ht 18/05/2015)
Chinese
team
set to reopen KTM-Kerung road today (kp
18/05/2015)
All
roads,
bridges except Araniko Highway ‘secure’, by
Sanjeev Giri (kp 08/05/2015)
Six
killed,
11 hurt in jeep accident, by Ananda Gautam
(kp 05/08/2015)
Construction
of
causeways comes as a relief for villagers,
by Shankar Acharya (kp 25/04/2015)
Direct
Karnali-Ktm
bus service launched (rep 25/04/2015)
Narayanghat-Mugling
stretch:
Government set to widen road along Trishuli,
by Bhusan Yadav (kp 24/04/2015)
17
Indian
pilgrims killed in bus crash, by Harihar
Rathour and Gaurav Thapa (kp 23/04/2015), 17
Gujarati
pilgrims killed as bus plunges into gorge in
Dhading, by Thomas Bogaty (ht 23/04/2015), Survivor
says
pilgrimage turned into tragedy (ht
23/04/2015), IAF
plane
airlifts victims to India (kp 24/04/2015), India
airlifts
17 dead, 22 injured, other pilgrims (ht
24/04/2015)
3
dead in Bara bus crash, by Laxmi Sah (kp
22/04/2015)
Stakeholders
stress
on eco-safe roads (ht 22/04/2015)
Road
expansion
work obstructed: The settlements, structures and
buildings reflect the rich culture, life style,
religion, customs, art and archaeology of the
Lichhavi and Malla periods (ht 21/04/2015)
MoPIT
forms
expert group to evaluate Fast Track road DPR
(ht 21/04/2015)
Vehicles
of
change: Reintroducing the once popular
trolleybus can be an innovative way to improve
the patchy public transport, by Raju Pandit
Chhetri (rep 21/04/2015)
Chabahil
tense
as college girl dies in road accident, by
Gaurav Thapa (kp 20/04/2015), Three
killed
in separate road accidents (ht 20/04/2015)
OAG
asks
Fast Track project to clarify Seeks explanation
for flouting Land Acquisition Act while
providing compensation (ht 19/04/2015)
Rural
roads
of Bajura in peril (ht 17/04/2015)
Two
link
roads for Kathmandu-Tarai Fast Track proposed (ht
17/04/2015)
Police
turn
a blind eye to overcrowded public buses, by
Anil Bhandari (rep 17/04/2015)
Lokanthali
-
Sano Thimi road: Officials to finish repair by
mid-June, by Gaurav Thapa (kp 16/04/2015)
Govt
criticised
for favouring taxi syndicate: A committee
expected to recommend MoPIT over new cab
operation plan within a week, by Ramesh
Shrestha (ht 16/04/2015)
Chabahil-Sankhu
road
widening work to begin this fiscal, by
Sangeet Sangroula (rep 15/04/2015)
Valley
road
expansion: House committee miffed at delay
(kp 14/04/2015)
Survey
deal
for tunnel road ‘soon’ (kp 10/04/2015)
Doti
bus
crash: Driver gets 10-yr jail term, by Mohan
Shahi (kp 09/04/2015)
Multi-year
contracts
allowed for small projects (ht 09/04/2015)
Govt
unveils
‘Smart’ driving licence (kp 07/04/2015)
Newly
built
Banke bridge collapses, by Thakur Singh
Tharu (kp 05/04/2015)
Four
youths
die as they ram motorbike into bus (ht
05/04/2015)
Local
budget
being spent on road projects haphazardly (ht
05/04/2015)
Tough
action
against drunk-driving: Public vehicle drivers
could be slapped with jail term if found guilty
(ht 03/04/2015)
4
killed, 30 injured in Morang bus collision
(kp 02/04/2015), Four
killed,
30 injured in Morang bus accident (ht
02/04/2015)
4
Koreans among 5 dead in Dhading bus collision
(kp 31/03/2015)
Pavement
reconstruction
delay: Dust troubles shops, pedestrians, by
Anup Ojha (kp 29/03/2015)
Traffic
cops
intensify campaign against drunk-driving on
inner roads: Some say the ‘overdrive’is driving
them up the wall, dub it ‘nuisance’ (ht
29/03/2015)
Solu
representatives
urge PM to promote Sagarmatha trail (kp
28/03/2015)
Rain
exposes
Valley’s poor drainage, early on (kp
27/03/2015)
NPBCL
submits
fresh financial closure report: Includes
re-commitment letters of Canadian firms to
finance project (ht 26/03/2015)
2
dead, 25 hurt in accident (kp 25/03/2015)
Footpath
upgradation
will bring visible results: KMC, by Gaurav
Thapa (kp 25/03/2015)
Drive
against
stray cattle menace (kp 25/03/2015)
7
killed, 7 hurt in road accidents (kp
23/03/2015)
Bhaktapur-Nagarkot
road
to be widened from four to seven metres (ht
23/03/2015)
Women
denied
reservation seats in public transportation,
by Amrita Anmol (23/03/2015)
CCTV
cameras
capture over 1,200 lane violators (ht
23/03/2015)
Delayed,
road
widening project starts, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 21/03/2015)
Nagdhunga-Naubise
road:
Japan ‘agrees’ to provide loan for tunnel road
(kp 20/03/2015)
Fatal
accidents
on the rise along Karnali Highway (ht
19/03/2015)
18
dead
in Jumla bus accident: Three in critical
condition receiving care in Banke, by
Tularam Pandey (kp 17/03/2015), Eighteen
killed,
13 hurt in Jumla bus plunge, by Suryamani
Gautam (ht 17/03/2015), Monday’s
road
accident Jumla’s deadliest, by DB Budha (rep
18/03/2015)
Tripureshwor-Kalanki
road
stretch to be upgraded to six-lane (ht
17/03/2015)
Govt
inks
DPR deal for Fast Track project (kp
17/03/2015), MoU
for
DPR of Fast Track road inked (ht 17/03/2015)
BP
Highway
comes as a boon for Sindhuli folks, by
Gaurav Thapa (kp 16/03/2015)
Experts
suggest
govt to build SIA and Fast Track road with local
resources (ht 16/03/2015)
Number
of
road accident deaths on rise in Kaski (ht
15/03/2015)
DoTM
mulling
GPS tracking for vehicles (ht 15/03/2015)
3
killed, 36 hurt in accidents (kp 14/03/2015)
One
killed,
two hurt (ht 13/03/2015)
Govt
begins
consultations on Fast Track compensation (ht
13/03/2015)
New
road
brings joy to locals: Many feel better
facilitated, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
12/03/2015)
Tanahun
locals
halt bridge construction (ht 08/03/2015)
Six
dead,
53 injured in bus plunge (kp 07/3/2015), Six
die
in Kaski bus plunge,54 injured (ht
07/03/2015), Relatives
of
bus crash victims demand action against driver
(kp 08/03/2015), Panel
to
probe Sarangkot bus accident (ht 08/03/2015)
Mid-hill
highway
in in state of limbo (ht 07/03/2015)
700
booked
for traffic offence on Holi (kp 06/03/2015)
Zebra
crossings
turning into accident prone zones (ht
06/03/2015)
More
solar
lights for Thamel (kp 06/03/2015)
Vehicular
traffic
doubles along BP Highway, by Anil Bhandari
(rep 06/03/215)
Direct
bus
service to Varanasi from tomorrow (kp
04/03/2015), Kathmandu-Varanasi
direct
bus service begins (kp 06/03/2015)
Japan
govt
to hand over BP Highway in May (ht
04/03/2015)
Greenery
from
Maitighar to Tinkune fading away (kp
04/03/2014)
655
solar
lamps light up Capital (kp 04/03/2015)
Bardiya
folk
await new Babai bridge, by Kamal Panthi (kp
22/02/2015)
KMC
ramps
up capital’s pavement project (kp
22/02/2015)
374
trail
bridges built in rural areas last year: Ministry
(kp 21/02/2015)
Bhimsengola
stretch
opens (kp 17/02/2015)
Locals
block
road, want repair, by Aman Koirala (kp
15/02/2015)
Govt
plans
to widen East-West highway (ht 15/02/2015)
Bid
to
reduce accidents: Dash cameras to be made
compulsory (kp 14/02/2015)
Women
only
buses: Female commuters seek service expansion,
by Thomas Bogaty (ht 14/02/2015)
At
the
crossroads: Road expansion delayed due to the
indifference of concerned authorities and lack
of coordination among themselves (ht
14/02/2015)
Jeep
driver
killed, four hurt in accident (ht
14/02/2015)
Siddhababa
landslip:
Officials suggest alternate routes to avoid
landslides (kp 12/02/2015)
Govt
plans
flyover in New Baneshwor, by Ramesh Shrestha
(ht 12/02/2015)
Decision
to
make Mahapal road one way draws mixed reaction
(kp 10/02/2015)
Traffic
rules
violation rampant in Kathmandu: Nearly nine lakh
drivers booked in one-and-a-half years (ht
09/02/2015)
Urban
road
standards for Valley on cards (rep
09/02/2015)
Auto
registration
up 5.55pc in H1, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
08/02/2015)
Construction
of
Swiss-funded bridges starts (ht 07/02/2015)
Work
on
Chatara bridge project at snail pace, by
Rohit Rai (rep 07/02/2015)
New
solar
lights set to illuminate Shahid Gate (ht
06/02/2015)
IL&FS
consortium
quotes Rs 317bn toll charge, by Ramesh
Shrestha (ht 06/02/2015)
DoR
developing
disabled-friendly footpaths (ht 05/02/2015)
Govt
prepares
to hire consultant for Nagdhunga tunnel road
(ht 05/02/2015), Nepal,
Japan
agree to involve local firms: The project will
bore a 2.5-km tunnel under the hills on the
western side of the Valley, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 07/02/2015)
One
dead,
8 hurt in road accident (kp 04/02/2015)
Tripureshwar-Nagdhunga
road:
Artery to get wider in three years, by Samik
Kharel (kp 03/02/2015), Tripureshwar-Kalanki
road
set to become six-lane, by Sangeet Sangroula
(rep 04/02/2015)
Tree
guards
in Capital getting degraded (ht 03/02/2015)
Parking
time
cut at vegetable market (ht 03/02/2015)
5
die in separate road accidents: The accidents
occurred in Syangja, Myagdi, Bhojpur and Morang
districts in the past two days (kp
02/02/2015)
2,813
drivers
booked for violating reserved seats (ht
02/02/2015)
KMC
fails
to manage parking areas, by Samik Khael (kp
02/02/2015)
4-yr-old
dies,
dozens hurt in bus accidents, by Rajendra
Manandhar (kp 01/02/2015)
DoR
to
install more traffic lights in city (ht
01/02/2015)
Kerung
border
point re-opens after six weeks, by Krishna
Thapa (kp 01/02/2015)
Drive
against
drunk driving paying off: MTPD; Traffic police
claim road accidents gone down substantially,
with revenue collection up (ht 01/02/2015)
Anti
drunk-driving
move ‘reduced’ road accidents (kp
31/01/2015)
KMC:
Melamchi
project failed to repair roads (kp
29/01/2015)
House
panel
tells govt to speed up Fast Track (kp
29/01/2015)
Information
boards
on Banepa-Bardibas road fail to serve purpose:
The emergency information boards set up along
the road display only messages about traffic
rules (kp 29/01/2015)
Traffic
crackdown
on public vehicles: Protest obstructs transport
service, by Agandhar Tiwari (kp 29/01/2015)
Captured
bikes
fall into disrepair due to negligence (kp
29/01/2015)
Drivers
die
in bus collision, 33 injured (ht 28/01/2015)
Many
roads,
but no vehicle plies on them (ht 27/01/2015)
Sagarmatha
highway
to Diktel ‘ready’, by Dilliram Khatiwada (kp
26/01/2015)
Greenbelts
removed
to ease traffic movement (ht 24/01/2015), Valley
authorities
put off green belt plan (kp 26/01/2015)
Bridges
turning
accident-prone in lack of repair, by
Tekendra Basyal (rep 24/01/2015)
Passage
clearance
work for Syafrubesi-Mailung road starts (rep
24/01/2015)
IL&FS
called
for talks on Fast Track (ht 24/01/2015)
Road
construction
in state of limbo: Negligence on the part of
contractors blamed for the halted project,
by Dinesh Shrestha (ht 24/01/2015)
Govt
apathetic
to cut taxi fare: People paying rate fixed when
petrol cost Rs 123 per litre, by Ramesh
Shrestha (ht 23/01/2015)
Development
non
grata: Govt should seek the cooperation of
foreign embassies in Kathmandu for its
road-expansion drive, by Semanta Dahal (kp
22/01/2015)
Work
delay
hinders public movement, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
21/01/2015)
Govt
takes
a detour on Fast Trackroad project, by
Ramesh Shrestha (ht 21/01/2015)
9
bridges under construction, by Tika Prasad
Bhatta (kp 20/01/2015)
8
road projects set to move ahead as India gives
okay, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 20/01/2015)
Kathmandu-Dhaka
direct
bus services planned (kp 20/01/2015)
BP
Highway
completed after 17 long years (ht
19/01/2015), BP
Highway
construction ‘complete’ after 20 years, by
Raj Kumar Karki (kp 22/01/2015)
Govt
set
to remove 20-yr-old vehicles, by Samik
Kharel (kp 18/01/2015)
Safer
roads:
The government needs to ensure the safety of all
road users, not just motorists but also
pedestrians and public vehicle passengers,
by Swarna Rai (kp 18/01/2015)
Section
of
Singha Durbar wall being demolished for footpath
(ht 18/01/2015)
One
dies,
three injured (ht 18/01/2015)
Five
dead,
7 hurt in jeep accident, by Pratap Bista (kp
17/01/2015)
Coping
with
change, by Tshering Lama (kp 17/01/2015)
Pedestrians'
woes:
Almost everyone in the city lacks basic knwledge
about road safety and its proper use or
deliberatly neglects it, by Shiksha Risal
(rep 17/01/2015)
Mid-Hill
Highway
uplifts rural folks’ lifestyle, by Krishna
Prasad Gautam (kp 16/01/2015)
Construction
of
tunnel highway to begin soon (ht 16/01/2015)
28
hurt
in accident (ht 16/01/2015), Two
die,
28 injured in two road accidents (rep
16/01/2015)
Time
card
for vehicles plying Karnali Highway, by D.B.
Buda (rep 15/01/2015)
Crash
Victims
shut down Jajarkot (kp 14/01/2015)
Travelling
along
Tribhuwan Highway fraught with risks, by
Upendra Yadav (rep 14/01/2015)
Bidders
for
Fast Track roadseek consent to issue bonds,
by Ramesh Shrestha (ht 13/01/2015)
Lane
discipline
prevents accidents: Traffic police (kp
13/01/2015)
Once
a
vibrant border town, Koilabas fell into ruin in
absence of roads, by Devendra Basnet (rep
13/01/2015)
Women-only
bus
service draws mixed response, by Gaurav
Thapa (kp 12/01/2015)
Govt
directs
road authorities to speed up work in Valley
(kp 11/01/2015), Authorities
told
to reconstruct road networks pronto (ht
11/01/2015), Authorities
directed
to speed up road construction (kp
13/01/2015)
Authorities
making
new design, by Samik Kharel (kp 09/01/2015)
Kin
of
Jajarkot bus accident victims stage sit-in at
DAO (ht 09/01/2015)
Bus
park
construction inPokhara to pick up pace (ht
09/01/2015)
Footpath
around
Tundikhel in sorry state: Dusty pathway giving
scores of pedestrians a tough time (ht
08/01/2015)
‘Provide
more
resources for bridge works’: Parliamentary
committee directs government to allocate
sufficient budget (ht 08/01/2015)
One
killed,
29 injured in bus accident (rep 08/01/2015)
Contractors
selected
for bridge expansion work, by Samik Kharel
(kp 07/01/2015)
MoPIT
begins
financial evaluation: Developer for Fast Track
road to Tarai in a month (ht 07/01/2015)
Govt
to
involve Nepali contractors in Postal Highway
(ht 06/01/2015)
Time
to
rethink: Existing road infrastructure for
pedestrians and cycle users are not only
inadequate but also poorly designed, by
Prashanta Khanal (rep 05/01/2015)
‘Refresh
centre’
set up to avert road accidents, by Durga Lal
KC (kp 05/01/2014)
Bheri
bus
plunge: Police to charge driver with murder,
by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 05/01/2015)
Women-only
bus
service kicks off on Kalanki-Balkot route
(kp 05/01/2015)
Make
way:
Kathmandu must develop a proper public transport
system before contemplating road space rationing,
by Ashish Gajurel (kp 04/01/2015)
Crash
victims’
kin still awaiting compensation: Say some have
received only Rs 25,000 even after a year since
the accident (ht 04/01/2015)
Nagdhunga-Naubise
tunnel
pact to be signed: MoPIT expects project to be
ready in seven years (ht 04/01/2015)
Kathmandu-Tarai
fast
track project: Govt okays technical proposals of
2 firms (kp 04/01/2015)
Road
expansion
project: Valley authority pulls down illegal
hutments (kp 04/01/2015)
KMC
plans
more solar street lamps (kp 02/01/2015)
Over
200
road projects in Dolakha in limbo, by Ramesh
Khatiwada (rep 02/01/2015)
Army
pulls
out of Thawang road project, by Kashiram
Dangi (kp 02/01/2015)
Four
die
in tractor accident (kp 02/01/2014), Four
die
in accident, one in critical state (ht
02/01/2015)
Road
expansion
drive: Valley authorities to resume roadside
structure demolition (kp 01/01/2015)
Investment
in
rural roads fruitless due to incomplete
construction (ht 01/01/2015)
Metropolis
to
pave core city streets with cobblestones (kp
01/01/2015)
2014:
A
year of road carnage, by Kamal Pariyar (rep
01/01/2015) |
