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Buses - largest fleet, still crowded?

BusPublic Transport

We often read announcements by the BMTC authorities that Bengaluru bus fleet is the largest in India or Asia. Where are the buses?

State of Pedestrians in Bangalore

InfrastructurePedestrian Infrastructure

Footpaths: This film was made by Samarth Saran, Saumya Tyagi and Bharat Sharma — a team of three people from the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore who took part in the short-film making competition held at IIM Ahmedabad’s flagship management festival Confluence 2010.

Transport Mafia in Kalasipalyam

Governance

I have been trying to complain against the issue of the Transport mafia in our locality in bangalore.However i am getting no response from the police department or BBMP . This locality is one of the oldest areas , but unfortunately has been severely neglected. We the residents of

'development' under police protection

Urban DevelopmentGovernance

Is this how people are excluded from the way policy and schemes are implemented?

Sky-walk, literally

InfrastructurePedestrian Infrastructure

The BBMP, it would appear, likes to impart literal meaning to the term sky-walk. This set (pictures below), coming up at the High Grounds junction (facing the Sophia school, and behind Basava Bhavan), has a ground clearance enough for a BMTC bus to pass under, even with a full grown adult standing erect on top.

Disciplined Drivers Club - Pledge

Commit to these safe and responsible lane driving promises, we will trust you to regulate yourself, and mail you a bumper sticker that you can use to tell the world that you are a safe driver from the Disciplined Driver's Club!

The Radia Tapes

Governance

I'm sure a lot of Praja users have read about and listened to The Radia Tapes and derived a lot of joy and/or sorrow out of them. Others may not be aware of where to access them since the media has virtually blacked out the news, except for some old fogies like The Hindu, Outlook magazine, and DH today and disrespectful upstarts like Open magazine.

What is this MUSS Maintenance Outage?

Power

 I was reading the news paper this morning.  As is common in the weekend, there was this regular headline which went like "Power Shutdown in Several Areas Today".  The article went on to say that due to 66/11 kV "C" Station Maintenance Work, there will be no power in a large swathe of Bangalore in the general Shivaji Nagar area from 10 am to 6pm.

Bangalore to Whitefield on Pushpulls

Commuter RailPublic Transport

Though my office is in Electronic City, for a new project I had to visit our company's branch office in GRTechPark, Whitefield  for 3 days. This building is next to ITPL.  I had to take public transport on all 3 days  to reach the office  in the afternoons while the drop back home would be provided on the company cab as it would be late in the night.

Vote your favorite Praja Disciplined Drivers Club bumper sticker (Designs in attached file)

Option 1
8% (2 votes)
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46% (11 votes)
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33% (8 votes)
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4% (1 vote)
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