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Namma bengaluru Website

16 January 2009 - 10:21am — sreekanth.rao

Greetings All, I read the Newspaper last week regarding the Infrastructure project tracking website called namma Bengaluru...I believe its a nice step towards transparency...But i am not sure when this will go Live...any of you guys have any update on this...and what you guys feel regarding the utility of this website and how we can use this website.... Regards, Sreekanth

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BIAL RTI - Airport Development Overview

16 January 2009 - 7:59am — Rithesh

Following is the overview of the airport development history.

Praja thanks Mr Nagesh, DyGM KSIIDC for having taken the pains to write this document exclusively for us.

Website structure

14 January 2009 - 9:12am — silkboard

Late in 2008, core members met and asked around on how the website should be structured. This page has the conslidated and evolved suggestions that resulted from this input gathering exercise.

Site Layout

Home Page

Landing page should be simple and designed for casual visitors, not the regular members or readers. It should have:

BIAL RTI - Steering Committee Meeting Proceedings

14 January 2009 - 12:27am — Rithesh

The Steering committee proceedings documents were provided by KSIIDC after the meeting between Praja members and Mr. Nagesh DyGM, KSIIDC on 13th Dec 2008. The documents were obtained from KSIIDC on the 2nd of January.

Cross the damn road - Now Feb 7

13 January 2009 - 11:36pm — silkboard

Start: 7 Feb 2009 10:00

End: 7 Feb 2009 11:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Venue: Foot of K R Puram cable bridge where Old Madras Road and Outer ring Road merge

Date and Time: Saturday, ~~31st Jan~~, Feb 7, 10:00 AM (I wonder whats the busiest time here on a Saturday)

Really, its something else - migration

13 January 2009 - 12:15pm — nijavaada

[Forked off from a comment on this "road crossing" post. {blr_editor}]

'Need for innovation in urban road infrastructure planning'

13 January 2009 - 9:07am — psaram42

In to days Times of India article Mr. Praveen Sood Additional Commissioner of Police (traffic) has articulated his concern about the pedestrians and the problems faced by the traffic police in enforcing the traffic rules. In democracy people get what they deserve.

The joys of crossing a road

13 January 2009 - 8:00am — silkboard

The pedestrian chaos at ORR-Old Madras Road interchange can'tt be stated in words, so I tried this video last week (find it below). The place is a live example of collaboration, lack of it rather, between multiple sarkaari bodies. Bring this up with a babu in Bangalore and instead of ideas or initiatives, you will get stories of how things can only fall between NHAI, Railways, BDA, and the Traffic Police but not improve. Oh yeah, the job of taking initiatives is best left to the citizens.

Wikimapia Coordinates out of the city!

12 January 2009 - 8:54am — Nitinjhanwar

I am posting this in the Blog entry as I would like to bring to everybody's knowledge this anomaly. Although the topic may not warrant but the consequences are important,therefore I request the co-ordinator to keep this post in the Blog category.

I have attached two .pdf files.

Metro construction and safety

12 January 2009 - 2:04am — idontspam

Really concerned how many more irresponsible accidents are going to happen before this project is completed. I get the feeling this project is being run like a govt housing construction for the EWS.

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