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Some Praja members are planning to meet Mr Aravind Limbavali (Hon. minister for Higher Education and MLA from Mahadevapura) to discuss the road and traffic issues in and around Whitefield area. Of specific interest is the area between Marathalli-Varthur road and Whitefield Main road.

We are trying to reach Mr Limbavali's office to get an appointment. If you are working/living in the Whitefield area or if you are just interested in teking things forward, please join the meeting by replying to this post.

Driving on Mysore Road daily can be a nightmare. Choke points are many - in fact, I cannot think of any better candidate for SB's 'model road demonstration' project!

One of the many such chronic choke points, Junction in front of Gali Anjaneya Temple, was (and still is) to get a flyover. Here is how the project went:

From this entry: (June 05 2007)

Mr M N Srihari, a traffic expert on Yeddy's new elite panel for Bangalore infrastructure has been on the record saying that CRS is a solution for Bangalore. Quoting from this Daijiworld article:

 

“Utilising existing electrified railway lines within a 30-kilometre radius from the city centre and operating diesel-electric multiple units (DEMUs) constitute CRS,” ... each DEMU can have five to 10 coaches and can operate at speeds of 75 kmph. “Operating DEMUs can reduce 25 percent of traffic,” Sreehari said.

My views on BRT have been known for a while on Praja.

I am not anti or pro any model. I believe a place has a thing and a thing has a place. First we must be able to justify BRTS on basis of need, then it should be implementable on given corridor (just being able to implement without demonstrated need is no good).

Here is an algorithm which I would use -

You can mark your apartment, your office, your school, the shops in your neighbourhood or elsewhere, landmarks, the roads that you know. You can state whether a road is a one-way, how many traffic lights there are on the road. Indeed, you can mark anything. For more, click on:
http://epaper.timesofindi...

Muralidhar Rao

Entropy, aka chaos on the roads is a subject we have discussed a lot here. There are about a hundred comments thrown across various posts. How about consolidating those points and making them more presentable via picture posts? Here is my attempt with pictures over last two months. Look, we need to explain and understand one thing very clearly. Flyovers and road widening projects are like buying extra large clothes to deal with obesity. Some folks prefer exercises or medicines to shed some fat.

An international team of researchers has just released a Global Urban Competitiveness Report, which takes stock of 500 cities around the world. New York has been found to be the most competitive city in the world, followed, in that order, by London, Tokyo, Paris and Washington, DC.