Editing Transport in India (section)

=== Cycle rickshaw ===
[[Cycle rickshaw]]s were introduced in India in the 1940s.<ref name="TED-Taj">{{Cite web |url=http://www1.american.edu/TED/taj.htm |title=The Taj Mahal: Pollution and Tourism |last=Farrell |first=Sean |publisher=Trade and Environment Database (TED)(American University) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926060455/http://www1.american.edu/TED/taj.htm |archive-date=26 September 2009 |access-date=29 November 2009}}</ref> They are bigger than a tricycle where two people sit on an elevated seat at the back and a person pedals from the front. In the late 2000s, they were banned in several cities for causing traffic congestion.<ref name="CRBanTOI">{{Cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Rickshaw-ban-from-today/articleshow/2110773.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105185410/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-06-09/delhi/27984451_1_cycle-rickshaws-chandni-chowk-church-mission-road |url-status=live |archive-date=5 November 2011 |title=Rickshaw ban from today |date=9 June 2007 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=18 June 2009}}</ref><ref name="CRbanTT">{{Cite news |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060930/asp/guwahati/story_6811101.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927064532/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060930/asp/guwahati/story_6811101.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2011 |title=Ban on slow vehicles in select areas likely |date=30 September 2006 |work=Online edition of The Telegraph, dated 2006-09-29 |access-date=18 June 2009 |location=Calcutta, India }}</ref><ref name="Chennaiban">{{Cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/10/16/stories/2002101609010300.htm |title=Ban on fish-carts extended |website=Online edition of The Hindu, dated 2002-10-15 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050306001710/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/10/16/stories/2002101609010300.htm |archive-date=6 March 2005 |access-date=18 June 2008}}</ref> The [[Delhi Police]] recently submitted an affidavit against plying of cycle rickshaws to ease traffic congestion in the city but it was dismissed by the [[Delhi High Court]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/09/stories/2009120957670400.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091214110421/http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/09/stories/2009120957670400.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 December 2009 |title=New Delhi News : Police opinion on plying of cycle-rickshaws irks Court |date=9 December 2009 |access-date=5 April 2010 |work=[[The Hindu]] |location=Chennai, India}}</ref> In addition, environmentalists have supported the retention of cycle rickshaws as a non-polluting mode of transport.<ref name="CSEBulletin">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cseindia.org/campaign/apc/pdf/smog-2006-oct-3-rickshaw.pdf |title=Cycle rickshaws: Victims of car mania |publisher=[[Centre for Science and Environment]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717090721/http://www.cseindia.org/campaign/apc/pdf/smog-2006-oct-3-rickshaw.pdf |archive-date=17 July 2007 |access-date=18 June 2009}}</ref>

[[File:Public buses near Howrah Railway Station.jpg|thumb|Public buses near [[Howrah Station|Howrah Railway Station]] in [[Kolkata Book Fair|Kolkata]], West Bengal]]
[[File:Delhi–Meerut Expressway.jpg|thumb|[[Delhi–Meerut Expressway]] is India's widest expressway with 14 lanes.]]