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14 August 2008 - 7:03pm

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Parking for profit, and how we can help

11 August 2008 - 11:19am — silkboard

Location, Whitefield. First photo may tell you nothing, whats wrong with parking on the edge of the road anyway. Second one tells you why I clicked it. Blatant, isn't it?

We see examples like this everyday. Some of us fools waste time taking pictures. And the rarest of rare, nut cases, take the trouble of sending these to Traffic Police to feel like doing 'their bit'.

Benniganahalli Railway Bridge Protest , K R Puram

8 August 2008 - 11:44am — santoshshetty39

The 7 th of August 2008 , Near Benniganahalli Railway Bridge , K R Puram ,Bangalore - 36 Regarding the issue of Widening the road , Mr .N.S.Nandeesh Reddy , MLA ,K R Puram Constituency met with the public ,as they were protesting for the widening of road .

Mr .N.S.Nandeesh Reddy himself participated in the protest and called the NATIONAL HIGHWAY DEV AUTHORITY people and told that they will call a Tender for widening this road within this 25 th of August 2008 .

As he insisted the people regarding the issue , the public gathered took back the protest.

Enhancing school education to counter some everyday problems

7 August 2008 - 4:44am — blrpraj

From the various discussions on Praja we observe everyday problems such as
- Corruption
- Traffic congestion and chaos
- Unorganized & uncontrolled urban growth
- Complete lack of civic sense and amenities
- Pollution (land, air and noise pollution) and it's affects on health

Namma Raste - road use efficiency

5 August 2008 - 9:39am — silkboard

Read in an email this morning that on 19th July 2008, a workshop on “Reclaiming Bangalore’s roads: Namma Raste” was jointly organized by Environment Support Group (ESG), CIVIC Bangalore and Alternative Law Forum at Vidyadeep, Ulsoor Road, Bangalore.

The context for this meeting was the PIL against BBMP over widening of 91 roads. Apparently, the claim is that the widening projects will increase average vehicle speeds from 8-10 km/hr to 40 km/hr (ref: material from ESG/HU - these should soon be up on ESG website, so I will save myself copy paste jobs here).

Intelligent Transportation systems and Traffic signals

4 August 2008 - 5:24pm — shas3n

We had learnt a lot of interesting things from our meeting with Mr. Sood. Looks like things are now moving further ahead. Tenders have been floated for installation of Intelligent traffic signals. (Source: TOI). Moreover, over the next year there will also be a lot of action with Area Traffic Control (ATC), Variabe Message System (VMS) etc.

Cycle lanes planned in Bangalore

4 August 2008 - 5:18pm — shas3n

The long awaited news for enthusiastic cyclers in Bangalore is finally here. BMLTA and DULT are involved in commissioning a feasibility study for cycling lanes in the following localities. (Source: TOI)

Meeting with Mr. Sood -- Thoughts on a roadmap for taking this forward

30 July 2008 - 10:05pm — vvr

So, we are off to a great start to a potentially rewarding engagement with Mr. Sood. In inimitable Praja style, the floodgates have opened and ideas have come gushing out that touch on a whole myriad of issues, clearly a reflection of the collective knowledge of the group as well as the enthusiasm of the members.

Humour laden ideas for BTRAC's creative project

28 July 2008 - 8:56pm — shas3n

Last week we discussed KRDCL's decision to involve a creative agency to improve driver behaviour. The enthusiasm of praja members was evident and several of us wondered if it is worth giving a shot at this!!

As cosmic coincidence would have it, we also got hooked to satiric videos from a Bangalore based groups of youngsters on youtube. Our friends from mindry.in make wonderful, homemade, 100% organic videos that mock popular culture, Current affairs, News, Controversies, TV shows, Personalities and just about everything else.

In what consultants would call a 'synergistic opportunity', we put the one and one together and asked them if they will be game to jump in with us on this.

Speed governors for all vehicles!

28 July 2008 - 6:53pm — silkboard

Folks, stand up and applaud this. Read in Biz-standard this morning that Central government is thinking about making speed governors mandatory in all vehicles. I have always wondered, why make cars that do 150 kmph when such speeds are not legal anywhere in the country. And why is it that the push for speed governors was so far being made only for commercial vehicles?

I think just the way mobile phone technology was a leapfrog solution to help increase teledensity, technology can help us with solutions for traffic management. Think of this for example.

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