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LED street lights are here!

1 December 2009 - 12:08pm — blrsri

The infamous richmond road flyover is always blamed for everything...First signal-on-flyover in the world..etc

But these days its in the news for good reasons..here you can see one of the first implementations of the LED streetlighting..

Summary: Do we have any other choices other than Metro? Are we trying to hide our deficiencies and closed our eyes to all the improvements? How good metro projections are? All these questions are very critical and crucial before we consider Metro project?

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Do we have any other choices other than Metro?

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Traffic Fines - Revenue Realization

30 November 2009 - 3:14am — idontspam

Managed to chart the fine & case data provided last year by the Bangalore Traffic Police to Praja.

Signal Cycle times in Bangalore

30 November 2009 - 2:21am — idontspam

Cycle time data for various traffic signals in Bangalore by police station jurisdiction

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Proposal: Green Score system for KSPCB/BBMP

29 November 2009 - 11:46pm — silkboard

Scaling up infrastructure and managing expectations of the greens isn't an easy job. A protest worthy job here and a green initiative there, one would expect to see some balance, and even better a system to quantify such balance. What if a body (BBMP or KSPCB) was to keep track of "green score" lost or scored on every project running in the city?

Metro : Reality Check for Speed, Money and Hopes

29 November 2009 - 9:02pm — bharatm

Summary: This article tries to analyse Metro project and expectation from it. If they are reasonable? Also have the people who decided for metro really considered existing system's potential and limitation correctly? If yes than what was cost and efficiency prompted them for alternative. Its a hard to answer but it will be true reality check for metro.

Concepts for an Integrated Road Design Manual

29 November 2009 - 8:13pm — psaram42

1.0 Introduction

A normal concept of road design includes the following -- (1)

Protest against ID cards for entry into public parks

28 November 2009 - 7:12pm — Vasanthkumar My...

Start: 30 Nov 2009 16:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

To protest such abhorrent acts of exclusion, the Environmental Support Group (ESG) have organised a protest on

Monday, 30th November 2009, 4 pm to 6 pm at Queens Statue, Cubbon Park, M. G. Road.

We urge you to join us in large numbers in this very critical struggle against encroachment of the Fundamental Rights to Access Public Spaces.

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Helpless Desk - hospitals

28 November 2009 - 4:08pm — idontspam

Refer Indian Express story - Helpless Desk

Here is a classic case of good intentions wrongly implemented.

The intention

SmartVote - Door-to-door campaigning in Koramangala 3rd Block

28 November 2009 - 9:54am — deepakar

Start: 29 Nov 2009 08:30

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Door to door campaigning is planned for the Koramangala SmartVotes campaign (see details here http://praja.in/en/blog/d...).

Meeting venue: Koramangala 12th Main , 3rd Block , BBMP Park

Time: 8.30 am and should be finished before lunch .

Incase you require any further information , please call :

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