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BMTC - focus areas and recent initiatives

24 February 2009 - 9:17pm — sudheendra.karri

Folks,

Taking things forward from our last Praja meet and to brain storm and plan activities on tracking BMTC initiatives, here's my bit to get things started on a few things that deserve note.

1. Big-10 and HOHO services - scalability and scope for improvements.

Traffic Management and urban planning

24 February 2009 - 6:59pm — psaram42

Urban Planning for sustainable transport Infrastructure is a challenging task in a fast growing population economy as ours.

Benniganahalli bridge work underway

24 February 2009 - 5:02pm — srinidhi

Finally!! http://timesofindia.india...

Any idea if the pedestrians are taken care of?? If not, we need to immediately get their attention on this!

Illegal driving

24 February 2009 - 9:07am — psaram42

I have wondered many times how people drive in the opposite direction in one way designated roads un-punished. The following article may be of interest in this connection which describes a similar situation in UK.

“Motoring offences are going unpunished across much of London because of an extraordinary loophole.”

Car Fuel Subsidised

23 February 2009 - 11:00pm — Naveen

One of my danish colleagues had remarked that our country, instead of helping the poor & taxing the rich, was subsidising the car users with lower fuel costs since all oil imports were being sold at lesser price than what they actually cost in India.

Miscarriage of justice

23 February 2009 - 6:21pm — murali772

Whereas the magistrate should have been pulling up the police for not charging the perpetrators of the violent incidents targeted at women under more stringent sections, it is totally shocking that he has instead chosen to direct the police to register an FIR against Ms Renuka Chowdhry, and all just for stating that "Mangalore has been Talibanised".

"Only God can save Bangalore's pedestrians"

23 February 2009 - 5:04pm — s_yajaman

So said Dr. Subramanya sometime in Dec 2007. It seems that pavements are optional in Bangalore. BBMP can spend 100s of crores on tarring roads, acquiring land for useless road widening (check out the stretch just after Domlur leading to Command Hospital), building flyovers with signals on top of them, etc etc, but has little money to spend on building and maintaining pavements.

Business of Governance

23 February 2009 - 4:13pm — murali772

With concepts like Autonomy, Sustainable growth, Forward Planning, HRD, etc becoming buzz-words in management circles, government babu’s couldn’t quite stomach the idea of being left out.

e-Mail to BBMP (Bus Shelter Design)

23 February 2009 - 12:00pm — Ravi_D

Prajegale,

Here is a copy of the email I sent out today to commissioner (commissioner at bbmponline dot org) and joint commissioner (works) (jcworks ar bbmponline dot org), BBMP. I know it is probably not going to of a much impact, but thought should just try. Something is better than nothing, right?

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My list before the Lok Sabha candidates

22 February 2009 - 7:49pm — murali772

While the "I vote, I count" exercise on PRAJA lists a whole lot of issues to be placed before candidates contesting the Lok Sabha elections, I thought, I'll prepare my own list, many issues in which may or may not figure in the list included in the survey running here.