Bhaumik M Gowande
@bhaumikgowande
City & Transport Planning Researcher | Civil Engineer | @UICCUPPA & @Uni_Mumbai Alum | Views personal, based on 2ndary data
#HotTake215: More hydrogen trains, so the electricity that’s use to power trains can be diverted towards charging electric vehicles across India 🇮🇳
First Hydrogen powered coach (Driving Power Car) successfully tested at ICF, Chennai. India is developing 1,200 HP Hydrogen train. This will place India among the leaders in Hydrogen powered train technology.
Cape Town orders 30 electric buses from Volvo. I fail to understand what's stopping Indian OEMs from exploring the African market. Countries across Africa are slowly shifting the narrative towards electrification of public transport. electrive.com/2025/07/11/cap… via @electrive
India absolutely cannot intake low income migrants, especially the illegal ones into our borders, when our own population doesn’t have access to jobs or equitable utilities like school, healthcare and affordable housing.
Severe crackdown on Bangladeshi illegals in Gurgaon? People across the city complaining about their maids, garbage collectors, etc fleeing the city/detained. Have heard this from too many folks already.
#ICTS2025 | #KnowledgePartners We’re excited to welcome the @Elbilforeningen as Knowledge Partner for the India Clean Transportation Summit 2025! Register now: eventbrite.com/e/india-clean-… Join us at @TheICCT_India' s flagship event, a celebrated platform advancing India’s…
📍Travancore Palace, New Delhi Now, it’s the Govt or Kerala’s heritage building and a centre for art and culture accessible to the public.




In New Delhi, you can travel from Millennium City Centre Gurugram to Noida Electronic City for 56km in just ₹60 rupees, that too in AC automated driverless trains on some lines. That’s Government of India for you.
London public transport is so expensive. One way train journey from a suburb to town is as high ~10 pounds. INR 1000 for a 25 km journey. But the worst is Credit card/Debit card used as a ticket. You can tap your card at entry gate and use the trains. It keeps accumulating and…
#HotTake198: DTC’s amazing new e-buses often skip stops & run nearly empty. Why? Because GCC contracts pay per km, not per passenger. Drivers (mostly ex-LCV freight) don’t care to halt. @MoHUA_India must mandate per-km deduction for every missed stop in future GCC tenders.…
कल से दिल्ली का सबसे बड़ा डिपो कैर बंद हो गया है और यहां ये नौटंकी चल रही हैं। यही हाल रहा तो @dtchq_delhi का घाटा 65000 करोड़ से अब दोगुना होने वाला है @drpankajbjp @gupta_rekha @BJP4Delhi @p_sahibsingh बड़ी बस नहीं ला रहे कम से कम इनको तो सही रूट पे लगा लो निकम्मों।
In Lille France (pop. 2L, metro 15L), metro run every 66 sec during peak hours. Delhi Metro’s Yellow Line comes close with 90–120 sec headways. So @MMRDAOfficial @MumbaiMetro01, how about aiming for 62 sec frequency? Let’s break the record & fix over-crowding at Ghatkopar?
What’s the point of building a metro if it only runs every 20 minutes??? That’s the kind of frequency you’d expect on secondary bus lines in small provincial cities in Europe! In Lille, France — a city 12 times smaller than LA — trains run every 66 seconds!
#HotTake214: While central Govt rolls out EV schemes for on-road vehicles, states must focus on non-road vehicles like construction machinery & agriculture tractors 🚜 🏗️♻️⚡️ In 2016, @TheICCT estimated that emissions of nitrogen oxides & particulate matter from non-road…

The Breakthrough Agenda is a global initiative backed by 61 countries. Launched at COP26, focused on accelerating the transition to clean technologies & sustainable practices in sectors of Road Transport, Steel, Power, Cement Concrete, Agri & Hydrogen to meet net-zero targets.
Excited to have Breakthrough Agenda as a #SessionPartner for #ICTS2025, @TheICCT_India's flagship annual event on #CleanTransport Register here: eventbrite.com/manage/events/… This year, the summit focuses on “Building the Ecosystem for #CleanTransport & #ViksitBharat” — moving beyond…
As @myogiadityanath once said:
Mumbai: Built in that era when planners kept footpaths on a flyover. Unlike today when our planners are either inconsiderate towards pedestrians or have forgotten about them.
Because nobody wants to associate themselves with the tagline “poor man’s car” … in India it’s all about marketing.
It's all about Marketing, Isn't it ??
London, like our city Bengaluru, suffered from a severe traffic congestion crisis. But they have addressed it very effectively. No, they didn’t build tunnel roads. They didn’t build more flyovers on flyovers. They addressed the root of the problem - cars. They made the city…
As a youth, I feel I am missing out on key opportunities to work & partner with agencies abroad because of our weak passport & visa restrictions. While my EU/US/Asian peers can travel within 4–5 days of receiving an invitation, I have to wait for months just to get a visa :/