October 2009

Unpaid traffic fines - a survey

29 October 2009 - 9:50am — s_yajaman

Was checking if there were any fines against my car's number at www.btis.in. None. Then I decided to do a random sampling of cars on unpaid fines.

Did a random sample of 100 cars across the 5 RTOs for unpaid violations and fine amounts. This would be fairly representative as the number is quite large for a sample.

Poor design of flyovers lead us nowhere in solving traffic problems

29 October 2009 - 1:29pm — Vasanth

All over Bangalore, there is a galore of small small flyovers and now underpasses. But, none of them are constructed with thorough thought process and planning behind it. Usual mode of construction of flyover is to have 4 exit ramps and 4 entry ramps in semicircles like we have seen in foreign countries as well as in our NICE Somapura road junction.

BBMP - Projects on GIS?

28 October 2009 - 9:50am — Ravi_D

Pwe this 21/Oct item 'Palike to upload civic works info online' DH reports a laudable effort by BBMP.

Once it is done (I'd really hope that it will), info on all road related projects will be on GIS Maps, up on their website.

Auto Issues

28 October 2009 - 11:16pm — rs

In todays Wall Street journal there was an article on the fact that the old cabbies in Bombay are beating up Meru Cab drivers because people prefer to take Meru cabs -

online.wsj.com/article/SB125668745618111751.html

Ecological Roads

27 October 2009 - 3:40pm — psaram42

“Today SM Krishna is having a field day at Leela Palace with the Russian and Chinese counterparts. There may be other very important issues other than ER.”