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November 2010

digital tree census

18 November 2010 - 1:49pm — murali772

A group of students have been working on a street tree census in Bangalore. This team has now completed a count of all the street trees in one particular ward and put up the details online - here.

Worthwhile effort, I should think - may be prajagalu would like to join in.

Muralidhar Rao

MMTS Service Improvements and what about Bangalore Commuter Rail

18 November 2010 - 5:46pm — Sanjeev

MMTS services of  Hyderabad  has doing great improvements, you can see here how the services have been improved over the last few months. For Bangalore & its suburbs  Commuter Rail is still distant dream unless we push our Politicians hard either BJP / Congress

'Suggestions for BESCOM'

18 November 2010 - 9:09pm — silkboard

Action seems to be picking up at BESCOM, with a new Power Minister few months ago, and a new commissioner now. Pasting below, from an email exchange, some ideas for BESCOM and Energy situation in Bangalore, from Mr. MC.

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Bicycling infrastructure for Last mile & Intermodal connectivity

17 November 2010 - 9:46am — idontspam

Introduction

Need

{1} Diminishing mobility and accessibility, worsening health and environmental situation, lack of transport facilities and infrastructure, poor planning and traffic management and neglect of  multi-modal transport systems. In Indian cities the share of NMT at peak hours ranges from 30 up to 70%; trips undertaken by bicycle acco



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