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Monthly “No Car Day” of Kunming, China

8 July 2008 - 12:40pm — sanchitnis

Last saturday of every month is a no car day in Kunming China. See an interesting viseo on this:

http://www.chinasgreenbeat.com/blog/?p=36

Sanjay

BIAL Capacity only 9.87 million passengers ?

8 July 2008 - 12:09am — Devesh
BIA, HAL dispute carries on
Saturday July 5 2008 09:56 IST

http://newindpress.com/Ne...

Monica Jha

BANGALORE: The latest survey conducted by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), on the passenger handling capacity of the two airports in Bangalore, indicates that there is just a minor difference in the capacities of the two airports, contrasting BIAL's claims.

Lodging and Boarding in Bangalore - Enough and Reasonable?

7 July 2008 - 8:51pm — kbsyed61

It seems we have a 'Nack' of overlooking some imporatant needs of the city. We try to overlook the need and at times go to an extent that we rubbishes the need. This needs suddenly erupts like a volcano and then suddenly we wake up from our deep sleeps and myopic urges, we start shouting from roof tops about the volcanoes. Then we start blaming everybody except ourselves. In order to beat the others in this blaming game we give ourselves tags like experts and what not.

Driver Education DVD now available

7 July 2008 - 1:48pm — asj

Dear all,

Some of you are aware that I have produced 17 driver education videos about a year ago. All videos are posted on Praja and can be seen online. The videos now have over 100,000 online views and are available on a DVD. Every week I get requests for the videos to be supplied as a DVD. Given that I am currently working abroad, it became very difficult to sustain sending out DVDs (over a hundred were sent out free).

The reason I don't use BMTC buses

7 July 2008 - 10:42am
Dirty and crowded
33% (47 votes)
Slower than my car or bike
11% (16 votes)
Don't know schedules and timings
22% (31 votes)
No or too few buses on my commute route
26% (37 votes)
Bus stand too far from house
8% (12 votes)
Total votes: 143

Upcoming flyover on ORR at BTM - short sighted?

7 July 2008 - 9:47am — silkboard

Its flyover time again. BBMP has invited bids for "Consultancy Services For Preparation Of DPR For The Construction Of Grade Separator At The Junction Of Ring Road And 16th Main BTM Layout". (Also see:RFP for this flyover). So once this is done, those heading towards Electronics City, instead of waiting at 16th main signal, they will all wait longer at the silk board signal. And in the evenings, the signal under Jaideva circle flyover will see twice or thrice the amount of waiting traffic it currently does.

Air Force say no to second runway

7 July 2008 - 9:36am — tsubba
Air Force opposes second runway south of the existing one at BIA. http://www.hindu.com/2008...

Traffic Chaos and Reforms: Analysis and way forward

6 July 2008 - 11:37pm — asj

Sharing with Praja members, two compilations.

Can we change to electric

4 July 2008 - 10:33pm — bangalorean
Petrol prices are soaring above the roof. We are also facing a huge problem with refuelling Petrol during these crunch times. Improvement in the public tranport is not going to be soon, i would alteast expect couple of years for the public transport to pull themselves up and provide some decent public transport. We have a grt responsibility to save fuel. As estimated there are around 1 lakh two wheelers in bangalore. If each vehicle consumes 1 lt of petrol each day then it amounts to total of 1 lakh litres of petrol. i.e. 1 lakhs * 60 = 60 lakhs/per day. (+ pollution)

Why retain Kannada numerals?

4 July 2008 - 5:26pm — murali772

While the use of the Kannada script (but not on number-plates) does certainly contribute to the propagation of the language and thereby the culture, the numerals do not serve any such purpose at all. The regular 1,2,3 can as well be read ondu, eradu, mooru, so on, without in any way diluting the purity of the language, but in many ways simplifying life, particularly for the non-Kannadiga's who then have only to grapple with the jalebi's, the prospect of which is less intimidating.



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