February 2009

Namma Auto initiative - Updates :)

24 February 2009 - 10:09pm — veeracb

[See this post for details of Namma Auto initiative. Here are some updates on it.]

"Only God can save Bangalore's pedestrians"

23 February 2009 - 5:04pm — s_yajaman

So said Dr. Subramanya sometime in Dec 2007. It seems that pavements are optional in Bangalore. BBMP can spend 100s of crores on tarring roads, acquiring land for useless road widening (check out the stretch just after Domlur leading to Command Hospital), building flyovers with signals on top of them, etc etc, but has little money to spend on building and maintaining pavements.

Miscarriage of justice

23 February 2009 - 6:21pm — murali772

Whereas the magistrate should have been pulling up the police for not charging the perpetrators of the violent incidents targeted at women under more stringent sections, it is totally shocking that he has instead chosen to direct the police to register an FIR against Ms Renuka Chowdhry, and all just for stating that "Mangalore has been Talibanised".

Car Fuel Subsidised

23 February 2009 - 11:00pm — Naveen

One of my danish colleagues had remarked that our country, instead of helping the poor & taxing the rich, was subsidising the car users with lower fuel costs since all oil imports were being sold at lesser price than what they actually cost in India.

e-Mail to BBMP (Bus Shelter Design)

23 February 2009 - 12:00pm — Ravi_D

Prajegale,

Here is a copy of the email I sent out today to commissioner (commissioner at bbmponline dot org) and joint commissioner (works) (jcworks ar bbmponline dot org), BBMP. I know it is probably not going to of a much impact, but thought should just try. Something is better than nothing, right?

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