February 2009

User Experience Design Proposal for Praja

5 February 2009 - 10:50pm — rahulkjha

Praja is an excellent initiative and has made quite an impact already. However, I think the user experience is a little lacking in terms of navigability and organization. These are my views on an alternative structure for the website.

Lessons from Mumbai

5 February 2009 - 7:12pm — rs

I just returned from a trip to Mumbai and was quite impressed by how much the city has improved in the last one year. While of course most of the city is still in really bad shape large parts have been improved in several ways

"Signal free" Hosur Road: opportunity or nightmare?

5 February 2009 - 12:05pm — Transmogrifier

Just caught this in the news; BBMP's plans to convert Hosur road to a Bellary road like "signal free" stretch (read more here).

This is another series of traffic engineering nightmares just waiting to happen (narrow underpasses, plain bad design, non-existent pedestrian infrastructure). Ironically, they actually have cited Bellary Road as the model to emulate. There must be some way to get in on this and at least attempt to get things done more holistically. RTI the design plans? Another meet with BBMP? Two things that I could immediately think of:

Metro Phase 1 extension approved

3 February 2009 - 12:23am — swamy

Noticed one Bangalore Metro news - phase one extension was approved. From Deccan Herald:

Improving Road Safety - Fiji Experiment

3 February 2009 - 9:39am — Ravi_D

Happened to come across this PDF on worldbank website. Read item (b) - Fiji.

Interesting.... 10% of the third party insurance premium goes to Fiji National Road Safety Council (NRSC). Benfits both insurance companies and the population.

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