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Rehashed Plan to Renovate Old Cabs
EghtesadOnline: Tehran Municipality plans to renovate 15,000 decrepit taxis in the current fiscal year (ending March 2022) in coordination with the Plan and Budget Organization.
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Tehran Municipality Eyes Potentials of Startups
EghtesadOnline: In an effort to upgrade urban services via the internet of things, smart technologies and innovative ideas, Tehran Municipality is planning to tap into the potentials of local…
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Call for Developing Tehran’s Landline Internet Infrastructure
EghtesadOnline: An official with Tehran Municipality criticized local communication operators and said the quality of landline internet services needs to be enhanced in the capital.
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Municipality Should Procure Treated Wastewater for Tehran Green Spaces
EghtesadOnline: Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company is willing to deliver treated wastewater to Tehran Municipality (TM) and industries, an official at the TPWWC said.
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Third Smart Tehran Conference: Too Much Hoopla About Nothing
EghtesadOnline: On Monday, Tehran Municipality gathered urbanists, tech aficionados and communication policymakers for a two-day event dubbed Smart Tehran Confab that was certainly not smart,…
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Gov’t Offers $78m for Tehran Public Transport Expansion
EghtesadOnline: The Iranian government has provided Tehran Municipality with 10 trillion rials ($78.7 million) to boost urban transportation development in the megacity of Tehran.
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Tehran Municipality Resorts to Failed Plans to Curb Tehran Air Pollution
EghtesadOnline: While the Iranian capital has been suffocating under a blanket of smog that has refused to budge over the past seven days, urban managers seem to be content taking ineffectual…
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Tehran Municipality Initiative Honored by World Smart City Award
EghtesadOnline: Smart Tehran Program, developed by Tehran Municipality, was honored during the World Smart City Award 2019, and an adjunct conference held in Barcelona, Spain, on Nov. 19-20.
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Traffic Scheme Revenues Spent on Tehran's Transportation Development
EghtesadOnline: Tehran Municipality has announced that revenues earned from traffic and air pollution schemes underway in the capital city of Tehran are being spent on expanding the city's urban…
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Twists and Turns of Taxing Online Taxis: Report
EghtesadOnline: Over the past two days, CEOs of Iranian online taxi firms, government and municipality officials, as well as unionists have had a hectic time on Twitter clashing over the taxation…
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Fate of Iranian Ride-Hailing Firms Hang in Balance
EghtesadOnline: Tehran Municipality took Iran E-Commerce Union to court on Monday over “illegally” issuing permits to local ride-hailing companies Snapp and Tap30.
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Tehran Municipality Files Lawsuit to Terminate Permits of Online Taxis
EghtesadOnline: Tehran Municipality has filed a lawsuit against Iran E-Commerce Union, arguing that the latter has illegally issued permits to online taxi firms like Snapp and Tap30, and demanding…
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Tehran Municipality to Issue $2.4b of Participatory Bonds
EghtesadOnline: Tehran City Council has ratified the issuance of participatory bonds worth 300 trillion rials ($2.4 billion) by the municipality to finance the expansion of the capital’s subway…
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Ride-Hailing Startups, Tehran Municipality at Loggerheads Over Taxation
EghtesadOnline: Tehran Municipality intends to charge ride-hailing firms operating in the capital a 2% tax and the startups are fighting the idea tooth and nail.
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$105m for Expanding Tehran Public Transport
EghtesadOnline: Tehran Municipality has signed an agreement with Omid Entrepreneurship Fund to allocate 12.5 trillion rials ($105 million) in cheap loans for the expansion of public transportation…
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Free Sightseeing Tours in Tehran
EghtesadOnline: Tehran Municipality's tourism office has launched weekly sightseeing tours in walking and biking modes.
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Karaj Municipality Improves Public Transportation System
EghtesadOnline: To improve the rickety public transportation system in Karaj, the capital of Alborz Province, Karaj Municipality has bought 200 new buses from Oghab Afshan Industrial and Manufacturing…
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Tehran Municipality Starts Bike-n-Bus Program
EghtesadOnline: As per a pilot program run by Tehran Municipality, the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network has partly been equipped with bike racks for the convenience of cyclists, head of Tehran…
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Tehran Municipality Promoting Walking and Bicycling
EghtesadOnline: In line with its program for promoting eco-friendly transport, Tehran Municipality will invest 170 billion rials ($1.3 million) to develop biking facilities, a Tehran City councilor…
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Tehran Gears Up for New Foray Against Polluting Cars
EghtesadOnline: With the winter fast approaching and air pollution levels peaking in Tehran, the low emission zone (LEZ) scheme introduced by the municipality is on the cusp of becoming a tad…