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Chitra V. Ramani of the Hindu reports: Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd. (BESCOM) will implement these projects over the next five years. With the implementation, it hopes to reduce interruption in power supply and improve efficiency. The four projects are:

Abide - all the right noises

29 June 2008 - 7:18am — tsubba

#1. at yesterday's meet, the media reports that while the CM spoke on finances and the big picture, the heads of various departments spoke of issues at a much finer scale, and the members of various RWA's spoke about many nuts and bolts issues[1]. (Added later: After I have written all that I have written, I observed a curiously familiar position on sakrama, property taxes and egovernance by a name very familiar. I am 99.87% sure that our own Silkboard has found mention in that article. which means he was there. So he will defintely post his field notes. You can ignore this post.)

Shrine entrepreneurship

28 June 2008 - 8:00pm — murali772

If any one can do anything about this menace, it is the BJP government.

Example of BMTC Local Shuttles for Bannerghatta Road

28 June 2008 - 5:15pm — bangalorean

Hello All,

Here i am once again, i had promised long back to explore more on problems with BMTC in bannerghatta road. So here are some of the major problems.

BMTC busses currently ply only from the main bannerghatta road and it does not penetrate the interiors of bannerghatta road. Interiors on either side of bannerghatta road is pathetic with no proper asphalt. It seems to me that no one has taken interest in improving the conditions these roads. Most of the roads have been occupied by petty shops making the interior existing roads small.

GTN is no more

27 June 2008 - 5:30pm — tsubba

Noted science writer and music critic Prof. G.T. Narayana Rao (82), passed away at Vikram Hospital in city early this morning following a brain hemorrhage. -SOM June 27

Results of 10th and 12th standard examination

27 June 2008 - 9:54am — prajarthi

In last few weeks the results of standard 10th and 12th have been announced by the Maharashtra State Board. Congratulations to all the students who achieved ranks.

KSRTC's AWATAR

26 June 2008 - 4:24pm — Vasanth

Whenever I try to book a ticket on the KSRTC's website online, it always says 'Server Busy'. This was inagurated grandly by KSRTC to show that they are capable just like Indian Railways, but, their franchisees KSRTC Booking Counters were worried. To make the booking only through Franchisees and have online booking for namesake, whenever you login to KSRTC website with your login, you will get a server busy 'clean message'. This is not from the server, but from a very good responsive page with delibrate message - Not any HTTP 500 or any other message.

Local shuttles and BMTC - Example Whitefield

26 June 2008 - 10:39am — silkboard

Let me try a detailed example of how BMTC can extend the reach of its services, without adding tons of buses to its fleet. It involves investing in identified trunk routes, and then in planning local shuttles. Lets dig a bit deep into Whitefield.

Say we identify the trunk routes between Whitefield and rest of Bangalore as Southbound (towards Koramangala E-City, Westbound (towards CBD via Airport road), and Northbound (towards Banaswadi, Hennur). Call these trunk routes, and put a bus every 10-15 minutes on each. Here are the three routes (indicative, not exact):

Joys of public transport

25 June 2008 - 12:27pm — silkboard

Public transport is fun. Sometimes I think of our lives as bubbles. In the house with familiar people, in the office with known colleagues, and in the car or on the bike alone, we may not really be mingling-connecting with our city, isn't it? That philosophical take apart, here are some pictures and experiences after trying BMTC a lot (upto 4-5 times a day) over last month.

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