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No cars in your part of town? You must be in Vauban, Germany

Not related to Bangalore ... Just read this article on NYT, and thought of sharing the idea.

http://www.nytimes.com/20...

I think that my tags of "wishful thinking" "foolish expectations" are appropriate.

Open house with transport and infrastructure depts of GoK

21 May 2009 16:00
21 May 2009 18:00
Asia/Calcutta

Dear Sir/Madam, 

We have pleasure in informing you that the Infrastructure Committee of the Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC) will organize an Open – House related to transport and infrastructure in Bangalore and Karnataka.

Mixed use misuse

Take for example Kanakapura Road...Now suppose I want to cross the road at Yelachenahalli.

This is the whole crux of urban planning.

Skype Meeting w/ Mr Manivannan

13 May 2009 21:30
13 May 2009 22:00
Asia/Calcutta

Wed, May 13, 9.30 PM.

9th May 'interaction' with Metro - who were "they"?

There are reports around about how the 9th May interaction between Metro and Laxman Rau Park and Lalbagh lovers (fronted by Hasiru Usiru) turned 'ugly'. After reading enough on HU mailing list, and hearing a first hand account of the event, I learn that some "special" people were brought (by whom?) to project the other ("we love Metro") view.

BMTC - Stats and Full Picture

[Forked off from this thread] You asked for it Sir.  Here they are:

Revamp of the Bangalore civic body.

 Recently we discussed about high dividers and roads being made “Double roads” in a forum. The truth is that, the roads are two way traffic roads by default, to start with. Normally two way roads are made one way to take care of increased traffic density. There is sometime a need to iterate to satisfy the public demands.

Father looses son to road hump..

..Having lost his son to a speed breaker, he made it his mission to save the lives of others and now has been successful in making the local administration in Bangalore work for the marking of road humps...

LDA is back - Madivala lake and others

Who is actually responsible for upkeep of Bangalore's lakes? Answer may go like this - some lakes LDA, rest of them BWSSB. Refer late last year's news articles - lakes were transferred from LDA to BWSSB. But this was done only for some (17 or 18) lakes. To remind us all that they are around, LDA has floated work for rejuvenating 3 lakes.

Monthly Praja Meet at Mr. Ravi's office in Cunningham Road

 The meeting was at Mr. Ravi’s Office which is at Cunningham road. It started at scheduled hour. The following were presnt:

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