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BekuBedaSanthe

4 October 2017 - 11:19pm — murali772
Governance
The "Citizens for Bengaluru" is organising a "BekuBedaSanthe" on the 15th Oct, and the following is what I posted on their web-site as comprising my initial "wish-list" (The linked blog-posts provide more details.

Pedestrian issues

28 September 2017 - 12:33pm — murali772
Pedestrian Infrastructure
An Indian Express reporter called to ask if I could write a 200 page note on pedestrian issues in the city, perhaps since I was part of the PRAJA team that had filed a PIL in this behalf in the High Court (check here, for more on that).

Multi Modal Integration : Metro, Railways, BMTC & Foot paths

17 September 2017 - 8:10pm — Sanjeev
Public Transport

As we have seen Ph-1 of Metro open to public without any consideration  for multimodal integration,  other end slowly suburban rail taking traction,  People are using over crowded Metro with poor integration  to change over from one mode of publci transport system to other.

Even we do not have single mobility card for Bangalore urban transport.

Language in Education - How Multilingualism helps

14 September 2017 - 7:19pm — srkulhalli
17 Sep 2017 10:00
Asia/Calcutta
Pre-schooling today emphasis heavily on English. Is it a good thing ? Are our children better off learning English to the exclusion of their languages ? What is the preferred medium for instruction ?

Double Decker Mayhem on RV rd - EC metro route

12 August 2017 - 4:23pm — srinidhi
Metro Rail

Bangalore has borne the brunt of bad engineering when it comes to road works. Thousands of crores are being spent mindlessly on projects with no actual value. The flyovers projects are the worst of the implementations, there are very few bridges which have proved their worth. A recent report on that can be seen here:

Cantonment Metro Station new location as per BMRC deciison, whose interest BMRC is serving

30 July 2017 - 12:13am — Sanjeev
Metro Rail

New location of Cantonment metro station wil lraise more question then to satisfy the justification :

Advantages of having Metro station infront of Cantonment station :

1.  Multi modal integration  will be missed between Railway, Suburban Rail, Metro, BMTC , Auto, taxi and  accessacibility

PH2 UG Red line routing

16 July 2017 - 7:43pm — srinidhi
Metro Rail

FInally BMRCL has published the UG route with station details of the new red line coming up between Gotigere and Nagavara. THe line goes UG at Dairy circle and has 12 stations on that stretch. The details are at the link below which was published recently 

DIG (Prisons) Smt D Roopa, IPS, my latest nominee for Namma Begaluru award

14 July 2017 - 3:34pm — murali772
Governance
Excerpts from a ToI report:
 
DG (Prisons) HN Sathyanarayana Rao - "What she is saying is not a new discovery". 
 
DIG (Prisons) Smt D Roopa - "He might say this is not a new discovery.

BMTC in Metro Times

27 June 2017 - 2:55pm — Vasanth

Ever since the launch of Metro, especially after East West Purple line was fully implemented, Bengaluru is saying 'Metro, Metro'. BMTC commuters, office bus users and many car drivers have switched over to Metro.  Ridership has already touched 1.8 Lakhs on purple line.

Bangalore Commuter Rail / Suburban Rail : GOK and GOI equally responsibile for not implementing

25 June 2017 - 3:40pm — Sanjeev
Commuter Rail

GOK is not serious on suburban rail by looking at last 7-8 yrs progress on suburban rail.  DPR  is pending & No follow ups from GOK with Railway Officials.



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