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Ulsoor Lake Pollution

LakesWater

The stretch of NH4 running along St Johns Church, Kensington, and Bhaskaran roads joining old Madras road is an interesting stretch to ride. It is a pretty road with constant two way traffic.

Implementing Emergency Vehicle preemption in Bangalore

Traffic

8:30 A.M., 29th August 2010, Mumbai.

Saurav was the vice-president of a famous advertising company. He had a sudden cardiac arrest. His wife called 108 for an ambulance, but the ambulance reached the place after 30 minutes and it could not save Saurav’s life.

The Okalipuram connection!

Infrastructure

From Deccan Herald: 8-laner to ease traffic at Okalipuram

The Kochi connection

BusPublic Transport

I was in Kochi on Monday, the 17th Jan. After I finished the personal work that I had gone there for, I called up Mr Vivek Mathai of Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR), the people who had organised the Bus Day in Kochi on Dec 18th. Between us, we fixed up to meet next morning at 10 AM in their office.

Tumkur MP demanding hourly train to Bangalore!

Commuter RailPublic Transport

In a memorandum to Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, Mr. Basavaraj demanded that  .... He sought allocation of more funds to take up electrification of a track between Yeshwanthapur and Tumkur. ... In the memorandum, he sought trains between Tumkur and Bangalore city every hour and between Tiptur and Tumkur.

BMTC- new route proposal- need help from Praja

BusPublic Transport

I would like the help of Praja members to get a new bus service from Gottigere (BG Road) to Silkboard.

Current:
Almost all the buses from Bannerghatta Road go to Majestic/Shivajinagar/KR Market. There are no buses which "turn right" at the Jayadeva Hospital junction (while coming from Bannerghatta side).

Namma Metro - Whose responsibility to look after the workers who build it?

Public Health

If CM is to be believed, Namma Metro will start chugging on Phase-1 route very soon. Der Aye Durust aye (Better late than never). WE all are witness to the making of Metro in B'lore. We all saw how the construction progressed. Even we made noises when trees were cut to make the way for Metro line. I believe this is price we might have to pay for growth and newer development needs.

Request for trains to stop at Channasandra

Commuter RailPublic Transport

 Hi,

Any idea on what can be done so that the trains departing from and arriving Bangalore stop at Channasandra station? This station is very convinient for people staying in areas like whitefield, marathahalli, brookefield, kasturi nagar, pai layout, banasawadi, etc.

 

Mobilicity report - session on Bus Priority System

BusPublic Transport

Apologies for delay in logging in this report. Real tight on time due to office work. I will request Naveen and Shaheen to log their individual reports/notes as well, had requested them to take notes during the session. So yeah, here is a quick summary.

Listen and Learn Kannada

Padakali, an initiative to teach people Kannada, one word at a time, has grown from an intra office learning group to a regularly updated web resource for Kannada language in a little under eight months.  Our previous post on Padakali is here.



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