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Road Widening Hits Road Block - PIL

31 May 2008 - 11:33pm — Naveen

Karnataka High Court admits PIL against Road Widening Projects in Bangalore

Issues emergent notices to Respondents

Placement of bus stops

31 May 2008 - 8:26pm — tsubba

placement of bus stops

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BMTC – Zones and Routes

30 May 2008 - 12:42pm — narayan82

This is not a solution but an attempt to spark off a debate to create a solution

I have tried to work out a method to organize bus travel within Bangalore. The inspiration for this started from London’s Underground – which is based on the concept of zones and lines. I have illustrated my idea of how Bangalore can be divided. It is a combination of the “Spoke” and the “Zone” concept.

Firstly I have divided Bangalore into Zones. Each zone will have one TTMC. See Fig 1 (Click to see original)

Bus Services Suffer from an Image Problem

30 May 2008 - 10:26am — Naveen

“A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure” – Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister.

Conventional bus services, the world over are generally perceived as slow, infrequent, inconvenient, uncomfortable, and distinctly lacking in status & quality.

What is required for bangalore is a complete change in the way people travel.

Invoking cosmetic changes & marketing conventional bus services are unlikely to make major impacts, other than marginally improve patronization (we have seen this all these years). Bus services, unfortunately carry a long-standing negative stigma regarding poor performance & inadequate customer services, despite BMTC being one of the best performing transport corporations.

My Experience with BMTC to BIAL

29 May 2008 - 9:57am — rajivjoshi

On tue May 27, I decided to take BMTC bus from J P Nagar 6th phase to BIAL and here is how it went.

BMTC's airport service - experience

28 May 2008 - 6:27pm — silkboard

[Since's Goerge's experience got lost in talks of PPP, privatization etc, I am posting this in a new thread]

Got to use BMTC's Whitefield to BIA service yesterday. Went to Hope Farm junction in an auto, and noticed that there was a special board marking the BIAL bus stop. I was there at 1:35 pm, and as per the listed times, a non-A/C service should have shown up in a few minutes. Even though a non-A/C bus was parked about half a km back in Whitefield, nothing showed up. Waiting for the bus wasn't fun - strong sun, no shelter, and no paved surface to rest my luggage.

The international importance of Bengaluru

28 May 2008 - 2:31pm — mcadambi

K P Nayar, one of India's veteran Foreign Affairs correspondent writes about how important Bengaluru is

to the International Economy:

http://www.telegraphindia...

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Imperatives of privatisation of power distribution

28 May 2008 - 1:41pm — murali772

The World Customers' Day was observed by BESCOM in its usual ritualistic style on Saturday, the 15th March by holding a workshop on 'Customer Care', in association with Public Affairs Centre (PAC), Swabhimana, Consumer Advocacy, and Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC). Of the audience of a 100 odd people, only some 30 were members of Civil Society groups (RWA's, etc), the rest comprising mostly of BESCOM officials. Seeing this, the chief guest, Dr Samuel Paul, Chairman, PAC, remarked that the poor turn out was perhaps an indication of the high level of satisfaction with BESCOM services.

Robbing the hungry

28 May 2008 - 1:01pm — murali772

[This discussion has been moved to a separate thread from the event listing here ]

PDS - interactive session

28 May 2008 - 12:36pm — murali772

Start: 29 May 2008 10:30

End: 29 May 2008 14:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

CIVIC Bangalore has great pleasure in inviting you to an

INTERACTIVE SESSION ON PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (PDS)

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