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Last mile connectivity – panacea for most PT problems

16 February 2010 - 12:05am — ashfaq syed

The results of the recently concluded praja survey to find why people don’t use PT, shows that the last mile connectivity is the issue for only 10% of the people. I was surprised and so did so many praja members commenting on the survey results. Well, once I analyzed the comments, I realized that it is not 10% but, it is actually more than 60% and people di

New Chennai-Bangalore road

15 February 2010 - 5:33pm — idontspam

The travelling time between Chennai and Bangalore by road could get shorter with the governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka evaluating

possibilities of reducing distance between the two cities to about 250km from the present 350km, with plans also afoot to promote this route as an industrial and m

Shirady repairs no takers- NH in a fix

15 February 2010 - 2:24pm — idontspam

Shirady repairs no takers- NH in a fix

“According to the recommendations a truck with 6 wheels can carry up to 10 tonnes and truck with 10 wheels can carry up to 16 tonnes. But the Transport authorities were allowing them to carry 40 tonnes”.

Experience of A Visit to Big Bazaar @ Malleswaram

14 February 2010 - 5:45pm — ranga

Big Bazaar has opened its shop at the old geethanjali theatre complex.....even tough is good for shopping and shopping experience for the malleswaram residents, it is come with lots of nightmare to the public. Few of them i noticed with one visit this weekend are :-

CAG is auditing Water Pollution - any lake to suggest?

14 February 2010 - 12:32pm — silkboard

By the way guys, saw ads in papers saying that CAG is conducting a performance audit on the subject of Water Pollution and that if we want to draw attention of CAG to any particular instance of water pollution, we can reach them at their email/fax. See details in the ad image below.

Liveability

14 February 2010 - 1:31am — idontspam

Winter Olympics host, Vancouver, ranked world's most liveable city

Praja Meeting at Freedom Park

13 February 2010 - 4:34pm — Naveen

Silkboard (Pranav), Vinod, Sri, Mr Ananthram, Mr Pathy, Srivatsava, Raghunandana, myself & few others met at Freedom park earlier toady - wish many others could have made it too (apologies to those that did attend, but whose names I have missed out).

Amongst various discussions, it was emphasized that priority was needed for meetings with BMTC & BMRCL to discuss issues.

A peep into MRTS at Chennai

11 February 2010 - 5:42pm — Naveen

These are recent pictures of the MRTS (Commuter /Suburban Rail) at Chennai. New elevated tracks have been added, but these pictures are from an old line on the surface, between Beach & Tambaram.

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ABIDe pins high hopes on new reforms blueprint for Bengaluru

11 February 2010 - 10:55am — vaishvittal

The chief minister's ABIDe task force released Plan Bengaluru 2020, calling it a 'dynamic document'. Alas, all this with no city council yet.

Preaching to the choir – converting people to use public transport

10 February 2010 - 3:01pm — ashfaq syed

Back in 1990’s driving was a pleasure on American Roads. Many evenings were spent going on a long drive enjoying the pleasure of driving the car on smooth and light traffic highways. People used to drive 50 miles every night just to put a child to sleep. Gas was cheap, traf

And more skywalks are announced

10 February 2010 - 8:29am — s_yajaman

BBMP yet again announces more skywalks. This seems to be in addition to the 50 or 60 that have not seen the light of day.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/51790/skywalk-ease-over-busy-bangalore.html

Development at cost to Nature Do we need this

9 February 2010 - 5:35pm — belgaumblog

Belgaum in this past couple of months has been in the limelight for not so good reasons for the city as a whole. From controversies on 100 crore to its implementation. Still none of the projects under the 100 crore special grant have been completed but newer projects under said scheme are being launched.

INDIAN RAILWAYS VISION 2020

9 February 2010 - 4:31pm — Sanjeev

Indian Railways has come out with INDIAN RAILWAY VISION 2020. It give clear vision for railways and whats coming up in the near future.

1. Add 25000 Kms of Lines by 2020 with Govt funding & PPP

2. Increasing Passanger Train speed from 110-130KMPH to 160-200KMPH

3. Capacity creation thru Doubling and Quadrupling of lines

The fast lane from Hebbal to Silk Board gets a push

9 February 2010 - 4:06pm — vaishvittal

Stakeholders DULT, BMTC, BDA and consultants RITES, iDECK will meet next week to review the revised proposal for the pilot Bus Rapid Transit System in Bengaluru.

Railways to privatize

9 February 2010 - 10:57am — murali772

Attempting an image makeover after opposing most major projects in her home state of West Bengal, railway minister Mamata Banerjee seemed to be going over the top in a bid to privatize every sector of the Indian Railways.

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