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Christ College Bus Stop Nightmares at Dairy Circle

30 March 2010 - 6:19pm — sunrise

Christ college bus stop immediately after Nandini dairy is becoming a hell day by day.

Narrow road, with two lanes (will say single lane after getting congested) fully occupied by autos and private buses stops happily for hours, on top of that BMTC buses will stop next to next on road, they will drive on competition basis giving night mares to the people driving behind.

There is no signal and if you see at the peak times, you will see the traffic jam up to dairy circle, with minimum of 200-300 vehicles got struck behind these mangoos arrogant drivers. And to cross just that bus stop will take 10-15mins in peak time.

What a great planning of Brurth Bangalore Mahanaga Palike (will say exactly as bakwaasss for bruhath). What a thought of these officials, should give the award of most complicated officials on earth. Their minds will work like mercury for money, not for the future of citizens and their comfort. And these guys should mind that they are also victims of the same?

On narrow roads, making bus stops, no planning for bus stops, did these planning guys have minds, how to implement bus stops. What a pathetic stage we are in?

BMTC Issues - From RCA perspective - 3

30 March 2010 - 5:02pm — Bheema.Upadhyaya

Few of the points mentioned in the survey (in second set) is about bus stands/stops.

1) Dirty and sad bus stands, do not like waiting there

2) Very hard to walk to and from the Bus Stands

We shall through some light on these items from RCA perspective.

Effect : Do not like waiting there.

Causes:

1) No adequate shelter(sad bus stands)

- Damaged roofing

- No roofing

2) Poor furniture

- Demolishing in progress

- Repair

- Damaged or vandalized

- Unclean and not usable

- Sharp edges or broken edges

- Very old

- No disabled friendly furnitures/path

3) Not Clean due to

- Spitting (Pan and simple)

Bangalore Water Index Kickoff Meeting

30 March 2010 - 3:05pm — Neha_Dar

Start: 3 Apr 2010 11:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

A few of us are meeting on Saturday to kick off and plan the water index project. Details as follows:

Date: Saturday, 3rd April

Time: 11:00 am

Venue: Alliance Francaise

Agenda: Scope of index. Best representation. Parameters to be tracked. Information sources. Partners. Next steps.

Interested Praja members are welcome to join.

P.S.: You can read about the water index idea here.

the train and civil society ..an analogy

30 March 2010 - 1:18pm — vmenon

The train and civil society –an analogy

In a slightly lighter frame of mind, let me put down an analogy of civil society’s possible available methods to bring about change; and will try not to put down too many value judgments or pretend that this posting is of great academic and philosophical importance.This also comes from some frustrations ,seeing how some civil societies tussle for space.

New Mini Bus Terminal at Byappanahalli on Old Madras Road.

30 March 2010 - 9:49am — Sanjeev

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has begun inter-State operations at a new mini bus terminal at Baiyappanahalli on Old Madras Road.

According to K A Rajkumar, Director (Operations), the State-run corporation has constructed a small facility near the old NGEFactory, on a trial basis.

“We have commenced bus services from 19 March on a one-way basis (towards Kolar and Tirupati). About 500 odd buses, including Volvo will ply daily through the new terminus from the City towards destinations such as Kolar, Chintamani, Malur, Chittor, Tirupati and Chennai. The new facility also has 12 bus bays” said Rajkumar. KSRTC will shortly finalise introduction of BMTC onnection to this new facility

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/61031/ksrtc-terminal-baiyappanahalli.html

Poor publicity by KSRTC may be due to BBMP election. Now they should give good advertisment about this.

The upcoming BMR bill - draft

30 March 2010 - 12:50am — silkboard

Continuing from the mention of two clear asks post BBMP elections, here is a regional governance reform proposal being prepared by Abide. The close to final draft of Bangalore Metropolitan Regional governance act is attached. Here are some mention worthy points. Detailed review will be very much appreciated by those who may be looking for them. Talk sense and less-rhetoric as much as possible please.

Elections over, time for Regional bill, and State Finance Commission

30 March 2010 - 12:13am — silkboard

Good riddance. With the local election drama over, it is time to focus on things that will really empower a local government for Bangalore. And they are?

Dare they talk!!!?

29 March 2010 - 5:37pm — murali772

The poor turnout in the posh areas of the city and the general voter apathy was cause enough for several politicians to spit fire at Bangalore, and to hint that if people did not turn out to vote they had no right to criticise the ruling class. For the full report in the New Indian Express, click here

The Transport Minister in-charge of Bangalore, R Ashok, scolded people for watching films and going to restaurants instead of voting and called for making voting compulsory.“IT is a shame on part of educated people. I don’t know why these people have no time even to come to polling stations to elect a right candidate" he added.

Hubli Railway Workshop

29 March 2010 - 4:40pm — Sanjeev

Rail projects on track: Muniyappa :

Complaints to MoS Shri K H Muniyappa on Hubli Railway Workshop

On complaints about decreasing work load at the Hubli workshop and reports of closing it down, General Manager of South-Western Railway Kuldeep Chaturvedi termed the reports as false and said that upgrade of the workshop was under way and once completed there would be enough work for all.

http://www.thehindu.com/2010/03/28/stories/2010032855710600.htm

Union Minister of State for Railways K H Muniyappa said that most of the announced projects for Karnataka in the Railway Budget would start soon and that survey for them would begin shortly.

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BBMP Elections - Who could be in the driver’s seat?

28 March 2010 - 10:26pm — psaram42

When there is a low turn out the party in power looses. So BJP may be facing the music. This is the conclusion of the TV News-9 program that had in the days evening live. This was done by “CVOTER” for the TV-9 channel. Mr. Prakash, Narayan swamy of JDS BJP and Cong were in the debate along with two more participants, whose name I could not get.

Out of 229 seats the magic number to win is 150. The forecast is

BJP 89-91
Cong 68-76
JDS 14-22
Other 17-25

So is it that Operation Lotus part II will be enacted?

The exit polls gave the following result. Politics

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