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Bangalore - a vanishing act of 25paise/50 paise in circulation?

5 October 2010 - 10:56am — Neeyathi_hemmige
Economy

Dear Readers, have you noticed when you go shopping for groceries/ or hire an auto- you face the problem of paying the exact amount. More often than not you pay-up extra. The amount un-mindful of the other party in picture, the billing agent or the autowallah rounds of the figure to the next rupee.- Say if your grocery bill has come up to 100.78 paise- she /he says 101Rs.

Chennai's elevated BRT system

4 October 2010 - 11:05am — silkboard
BusPublic Transport

While Bangalore planners are still toying with BRT concept, Chennai seems to have an elevated corridor identified for BRT (Bus Rapid Transport System). Wonder if we have some Chennai geeks here who can enlighten how the corridor was identified, and history of the BRT idea in Chennai in general.

The Metro may not be best answer to our urban traffic woes

2 October 2010 - 10:45pm — vinay_sreenivasa
Metro RailPublic Transport

Mobility, not metro, by Himanshu Burt, Business Standard, Oct 2:

The Metro may not be best answer to our urban traffic woes

Lobby for BRT in Bangalore - focus Big10, Circle routes?

1 October 2010 - 7:42am — silkboard
BusPublic Transport

First things first. If you don't like BRT, think it absolutely can't be done, please keep out, and discuss on other posts. This thread is for those who think that BRT in some sort or form (dedicated corridors, only at some places, or priority signals, or bus only magic boxes, or whatever) is needed for Bangalore, and can possibly be done.

Hello to all from anonymous coward

30 September 2010 - 4:25pm — acoward
Praja related

Hello to everyone from anonymous coward, (short: acoward) at Praja. I am new here and like all this talking walking you people do. Listen, write to me at acoward [at] praja.in if you have stories that you are afriad to tell everyone.

Elitist infra projects - BETL

30 September 2010 - 1:44pm — Photoyogi
Infrastructure

Being elitist may never payoff and more so if you you have an elitist attitude towards Infrastructure projects

On August 23, 2010, I was driving back from Madurai and took the Elevated Road that links E City to Silk board jn. Envisioned and supported by IT giants.

NO-PARKING zone violations

29 September 2010 - 10:36pm — Arun
EnforcementPrivate transport

Too many violations of the No-parking zone can be seen all over the City, and 95 times out of 100, it will be private cars that violate this rule.  Jayanagar, probably tops this list.  Few observations -

ABIDe's working group on Right To Education Act

28 September 2010 - 9:57pm — admin

Got a press release from Abide office. Title: "ABIDe forms working group to review implementation of Right To Education Act and make recommendation to Government".

 

Press Release

Bangalore Police - performance data

28 September 2010 - 9:49pm — silkboard
Governance

So, how much do you know about Police's performance. Policing is on part of infrastructure that doesn't get 'reviewed' as such. And thanks to movies and what not, our take on police is mostly based on misconpcetions, and not data.

GoK's social sector work - Healthcare?

28 September 2010 - 8:47am — silkboard
Public Health

Syed attempted to start a deeper look at Karnataka's programs in healthcare sector. Wanted to check if some online voluteers (search 'warriors') are interested to join in to dig out data and details on how state is doing in this important social sector.

For starters, there are three broad headings under which state is spending money in this sector

Delhi's bus privatization experiment

24 September 2010 - 10:33am — Naveen
BusPublic Transport

Excerpts from a 2007 paper about details of Delhi's city bus privatization process is reproduced below :

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