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(The mayor) told officials and residents of his city that "it's not that complex. We can be doing a lot more of this and in a quicker way if you adopt and embrace this proposal.We are counting on all of you. If we're successful here...if the community all agrees that this works...

LED street lights are here!

 The infamous richmond road flyover is always blamed for everything...First signal-on-flyover in the world..etc

But these days its in the news for good reasons..here you can see one of the first implementations of the LED streetlighting..

Metro : Hypnotized

Summary: Do we have any other choices other than Metro? Are we trying to hide our deficiencies and closed our eyes to all the improvements? How good metro projections are? All these questions are very critical and crucial before we consider Metro project?

Details

Do we have any other choices other than Metro? 

Traffic Fines - Revenue Realization

Managed to chart the fine & case data provided last year by the Bangalore Traffic Police to Praja.

Signal Cycle times in Bangalore

Cycle time data for various traffic signals in Bangalore by police station jurisdiction

 

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Proposal: Green Score system for KSPCB/BBMP

Scaling up infrastructure and managing expectations of the greens isn't an easy job. A protest worthy job here and a green initiative there, one would expect to see some balance, and even better a system to quantify such balance. What if a body (BBMP or KSPCB) was to keep track of "green score" lost or scored on every project running in the city?

Metro : Reality Check for Speed, Money and Hopes

Summary: This article tries to analyse Metro project and expectation from it. If they are reasonable? Also have the people who decided for metro really considered existing system's potential and limitation correctly? If yes than what was cost and efficiency prompted them for alternative. Its a hard to answer but it will be true reality check for metro.

Concepts for an Integrated Road Design Manual

1.0 Introduction

A normal concept of road design includes the following -- (1) 

Helpless Desk - hospitals

Refer Indian Express story - Helpless Desk

Here is a classic case of good intentions wrongly implemented.

The intention

Koramangala SmartVotes - Calling on volunteers

Koramangala SmartVotes is a campaign to elect a true citizen's representative in the upcoming BBMP elections

The Process

Site Notice - tech work during December

This isn't to scare anyone. Website will stay operational, with minimal impact, but just wanted to announce that we plan to work on some long pending tech issues (navigation, projects, gyan etc) during December.

About Media watching MUDA meetings

Sharing a copy of the letter sent to MUDA members regarding allowing media to watch MUDA meetings.

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MUDA/PS/2009-10        Date:02-11-2009

Respected Member of MUDA,

Warm Greetings to you!

Mysore: Some Clarifications on Demolitions

Dear Friends,
 
As no more comments are forthcoming on the issues, let me try to answer all the queries raised.

Destination Copenhagen-We need a survival pact not a suicidal pact

Preaching is easier than practising.

 

What will be happening at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, and why we're hoping some of you will start or join a candlelight vigil at a strategic or iconic location in your community on Dec. 11th or 12th.

Fool proof Design and execution of city projects or only Co ordinate and still goof up

 “There’s some hope for Bangalore. For long, we’ve cursed the lack of coordination between civic agencies as they went about their work.

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