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Signboards in Bengaluru : How useful are they?

17 April 2008 - 9:24pm — VishalMaharaj
Signboards in Bangalore: It is very apparent that we are facing a tremendous space crunch in Bangalore, on road or beside it. Now, apart from expanding the city to accomodate the needs of ever increasing population, we can also modify the existing pattern to fit the needs.

Bangalore - the importance to Elections

17 April 2008 - 8:51pm — mcadambi
I attended an internal seminar with the BJP today evening. One prominent leader informed me that Bangalore and surrounding

constituencies have a total of 36 Assembly seats. Hence, any party which wins Bangalore by a large margin will win the entire state.

Here is an interview:

http://in.rediff.com/news...

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HAL airport must stay: High Court

16 April 2008 - 5:36pm — mcadambi
HAL Airport must remain says High Court: 
Sourced from IBN-LIVE (click here for the story).

Kasturirangan Committee Report - Public Interaction

16 April 2008 - 3:55pm — murali772
19 Apr 2008 10:00
19 Apr 2008 13:30
Asia/Calcutta

(Original post here)

CIVIC Bangalore
has great pleasure in inviting you to a public interaction on the

Kasturirangan Committee Report
on a new governance structure for Bangalore & Manifestos of political parties on Bangalore

Dr. A. Ravindra, (Retd.) IAS

Former Chief Secretary, GoK, & Member, Kasturirangan Committee

will make a presentation on the Committee's recommendations

Response by

Prof. B.K. Chandrashekar
Hon'ble Chairperson, Karnataka Legislative Council

Responses & presentation of party manifestos on Bangalore by

Mr. P.R. Ramesh, Ex-Mayor of Bangalore, KPCC (I)

Mr. Srikanta Murthy, President, Bangalore City Unit, Janata Dal (S)

Mr. Vijayakumar, President, Bangalore City Unit, Bharatiya Janata Party

Mr. M. Muniyappa*, Karnataka State President , Bahujan Samaj Party

Mr. Venkatesh, Bangalore District President, Samajwadi Party

Mr. V. Balasubramanian, (Retd.) IAS
Former Additional Chief Secretary, GoK, & Advisor, AT Ramaswamy Committee

will preside

Date: Saturday, 19th April 2008
Time: 10.00 AM to 1.30 PM
Venue: Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen's Road, (Opposite Sanje vani), Bangalore 560052

ALL ARE WELCOME

Programme Schedule
10.00 AM: Tea and registration

10.15 AM: Welcome and objectives

10.20 AM: Presentation on the Kasturirangan Committee Report
by Dr. A. Ravindra

10.45 AM: Response & Presentation of Citizens' Charter on urban
decentralization by CIVIC Bangalore

11.00 AM Response by Prof. B. K. Chandrashekar

11.15 AM Responses by political party representatives & presentation of their
party manifestoes for Bangalore

12.30 PM: Open discussion

1.15 PM: Chairperson's remarks by Mr. V. Balasubramanian

1.30 PM: Vote of thanks & Lunch

CIVIC Bangalore (Citizens' Voluntary Initiative for the City)

# 6, Kasturi Apartments, 35/23 Langford Road Cross, Shanthinagar

Bangalore 560025,. www.civicspace.in, civicblore@gmail.com

Ph: 22110584 / 22711001 /41144126

Cell Nos: 98803 97401, 98809 63996

Kasturi Rangan Committee Report

16 April 2008 - 3:23pm — murali772
CIVIC Bangalore
has great pleasure in inviting you to a public interaction on the

Kasturirangan Committee Report
on a new governance structure for Bangalore & Manifestos of political parties on Bangalore

Dr. A. Ravindra, (Retd.) IAS

Smart Cities Put People Before Cars - Lessons for Bangalore

16 April 2008 - 12:48pm — cvikash
It is no wonder then that the most vibrant cities in America — New York, Boston, San Francisco and Washington — are ones that have been able to curb the voracious appetite of the car for space. The cities we love around the world are the ones that have been able to devote more space to people and less to cars.

Policing the Police

16 April 2008 - 11:20am — murali772
Governance

I was on my daily dinner routine. Happened to see this on-duty police person walking out of his official patrol van called ‘Hoysala'. He walked up to the cashier of this local restaurant, grabbed some money, and was matter-of-factly walking back. Not that this was the first time I saw such a thing - but, I don't know what became of me (perhaps Bollywood effect?).

Tarkovsky, Highway And Art

16 April 2008 - 5:58am — tsubba

just thought we could take a ride with tarkovsky on the roads of tokyo and while at it get some fundas on cinema.

Facelift for lakes - just new fences or more?

16 April 2008 - 1:14am — silkboard
Lakes
Back in January, BBMP had announced that it planned facelift for 17 lakes in and around the city. Cant find any newspaper articles to quote from, but this blog has it (17 lakes ...).

How does Europe & the rest of the world do it ?

15 April 2008 - 7:58pm — Naveen
Metro RailTraffic

Blrsri - referring to yr post elsewhere, & also in general, some issues that need to be highlighted ---

In USA /Europe & in rapidly developing far-eastern cities, the situation is very different, & solutions are found far more scientifically. They also have the advantage of much smaller populations & a more homogenous mix of users. This makes it easy for them to make changes as & when necessary with minimal objections or agitation. The old city of Rome is an example with very narrow streets, but traffic is very well controlled & directed, with efficient supervision & real-time monitoring.

As I see it, our difficulties are far more numerous & are summarized below.

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