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Transportation Solutions for Bangalore

27 October 2008 - 10:10am — silkboard

Everyone has opinions and ideas on solutions for Bangalore's transportation woes. This book will list some popular and comprehensive ones that came up in various discussions.

CCTF Report

27 October 2008 - 1:43am — silkboard

A Commuter Comfort Task Force (CCTF) was setup in 199x to suggest improvements to Bangalore's public transportation system. Since BMTC bus was the only mode of public transport, this task force was essentially setup to consult with BMTC. CCTF produced a report outlining some suggestions, most important of which was around routing of BMTC buses.

Mumbai Selects Monorail Builder

25 October 2008 - 5:15pm — Naveen

Mumbai has selected the Scomi-L&T consortium to build it's Monorail. The first route (20km) is expected to be ready within 3 years. The other bidder, Reliance-Hitachi were eliminated due to longer construction period.

Suggestion of Revision of train services between Bangalore and Mysore after track doubling

25 October 2008 - 9:33am — Vasanth

Mysore Bangalore track doubling is going to be completed by 2011. But, this is not the end of the woes to the travellers. The effective utilization of the doubled track by railways is the key to success.

Some fancy ideas for mass transport

24 October 2008 - 8:14pm — srkulhalli

Got these when I was browsing around. Kind of exotic - enjoy wwwa.vito.be/FADC/report1/10_Ankur%20Bhatnagar_UniModal.pdf http://www.unimodal.net/

Mobility empowers

24 October 2008 - 12:26pm — murali772

Automobility enervates, because more cars mean more congestion, less mobility

India gets on the bus

24 October 2008 - 12:14pm — murali772

After years of building roads and flyovers, the Delhi government has decided to change tack to address congestion on its roads: invest in new, sleek buses to restricted private vehicles. Other cities have followed suit.

Single body for all transportation works - Pune does it

24 October 2008 - 10:00am — silkboard

Learning from mistakes and gaps at other cities - Pune could be doing that. Read this morning, with great interest that Pune has created a special purpose vehicle called Pune Infrastructure Development Corporation (PIDC). Quoting this story (PIDC cleared), this body will be:

Pune Metro - lets start tracking it here

24 October 2008 - 9:22am — silkboard

A detailed project report for Pune Metro should be due out anytime now. Newspaper reports back in Aug had said the DPR should be out in a month. Not sure if it is out yet. Back on early 2007, Delhi Metro had floated several tenders for detailed project report (DPR) of Pune Metro.

Solar rickshaws

13 October 2008 - 4:54pm — murali772

Solar-powered rickshaws called green rickshaws were introduced in Chandni Chowk here on Thursday as part of a pilot project. Each of these rickshaws costs about Rs.17,000 and the idea is to have them in place of the man-pulled rickshaws.

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