November 2010

Shortcut routes for Buses

30 November 2010 - 10:32am — Vasanth

BMTC buses take the main roads whereas private transport takes the short cut routes wherever possible. This in comparison will increase the travel time of BMTC buses as against private transport making private transport more attractive.

Not more auto's; instead, good shuttle bus services please!

30 November 2010 - 1:55pm — murali772

The transport department and traffic police are mulling over reforms that could scale up the number of autorickshaws in the city from about 80,000 to 95,000. Simukltaneously, however, the Transport commissioner, Bhaskar Rao, himself states “The system has many anti-social elements. The common man is a victim.

Water supply outsourcing welcome - but, why the secrecy?

30 November 2010 - 7:23pm — murali772

The state has apparently launched on a programme to 'privatise' water supply in quite a few cities in the state, going by the below clip from NewsX.

Disciplined Driver's Club

30 November 2010 - 12:40am — Bheema.Upadhyaya

Project number:	3952
Opened by:	Bheema.Upadhyaya
Opened on:	Tuesday, 30 November 2010 - 12:40am
Last modified:	Monday, 8 October 2012 - 5:04pm
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Description: Project to design and distribute a self pledge form and vehicle stickers for a virtual Disciplined Driver's club

This is the project group to design and run a campaign wherein participants would take a pledge to be disciplined drivers, and then display a specially designed vehicle sticker to show and spread the message. Join this project if you want to help do the work to promote this campaign, like:

State of Pedestrians in Bangalore

29 November 2010 - 3:37pm — idontspam

Footpaths: This film was made by Samarth Saran, Saumya Tyagi and Bharat Sharma — a team of three people from the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore who took part in the short-film making competition held at IIM Ahmedabad’s flagship management festival Confluence 2010.