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Jaime Lerner's Presentation at TED Talk (BRTS, design and city planning)

30 October 2008 - 10:39pm — Rithesh

I stumbled on this nice TED talk by Jaime Larner. Jaime Larner is an architect and urban planner. He is well know for the BRT systems that he introduced in Curitiba (an industrial hub in South Brazil)as a mayor of that city. He is also know for converting the gridlocked commercial artery city into a spacious pedestrian mall(!!!).

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.

BTIS live traffic information

24 October 2008 - 5:13pm — thampan

View Bangalore traffic live at any time : http://btis.in/cameras/al... Bangalore Transport Information System (BTIS) showing 34/50 cameras across Bangalore. Click on location to see current live snapshot … The resolution is pretty good...comparable to those in european towns -------- got the above mail and thought will share with praja about the site

Mobility empowers

24 October 2008 - 12:26pm — murali772

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

Speed Governors are History!

23 October 2008 - 10:54am — Ravi_D

Remember this post on Speed Governors by SB?

SB - Sorry to throw this one out my friend. Did you notice these articles in DH recently?

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Oct212008/state2008102096322.asp

Speed governors - using technology to enforce speed limits

22 October 2008 - 5:31pm — silkboard

Here in Karnataka, government is pushing (its not actually govt, its the High Court) speed governors, but they are doing so only for commercial vehicles. If there is a reason or basis for why trucks and lorries are being targeted and not the private cars as well, I would like to know that.

Traffic Congestion – Possible case for a PIL

20 October 2008 - 9:11pm — Naveen

As outlined below, the formation of the prescribed bodies to tackle traffic congestion & to improve living conditions in the city was completed some time ago as recommended. Despite this, no concrete steps seem to be planned to stem the rot. The same old solutions continue to be doled out – the usual widening of roads after felling more trees & introducing more bus routes. These temporary solutions have been making things worse as widening roads invites more vehicles & the losers continue to be pedestrians & public transport users.

Bangalore Traffic website in Ascii Characters and spelling mistake

18 October 2008 - 12:28am — pradeep

I wanted to complain of traffic situation on Bannerughatta Road. The median intersection opposite to Spar is causing lot of traffic jams especially evening times when Accenture and Oracle office timings.So I visited our Bangalore Traffic website and I was shocked to see this.

Tata Motors: The makers of Nano do not consider Road Safety their Priority

15 October 2008 - 5:43pm — asj

Dear all,

I write after a long pause on this matter. After letting go off intial anger, I still wondered whether or not to blow the whistle (in a way) on Corporates that oft claim to be the Champions of people and society. Part of me perhaps was worried of becoming infamous for the wrong reasons, being mis-understood etc.

Volunteers for translating the British Highway Code

10 October 2008 - 8:23pm — asj

Dear all, A short while ago I applied to the crown copyrights permission to translate the British Highway Code in to Indian languages. They have granted that permission. India does not have an equivalent resource and it may be great to translate this material.

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