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Bangalore Public Transport

27 October 2008 - 12:39pm — silkboard

From having a single state wide bus operator serving the city in early ninties, public transportation scenario in Bangalore has come a long long way. The city boasts of having the best city bus transport corporation (BMTC), it will get is first Metro rail by end of 2010, and there is talk of monorail and bus rapid transport system (BRTS) as well.

Transportation Solutions for Bangalore

27 October 2008 - 10:10am — silkboard

Everyone has opinions and ideas on solutions for Bangalore's transportation woes. This book will list some popular and comprehensive ones that came up in various discussions.

Private sector challenge

27 October 2008 - 9:19am — murali772

“If you need to understand the difference between STUs and private operators, you need to compare the services provided by private operators in districts like Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, and those offered by STUs in fully nationalized districts like Gulbarga and Raichur", says Rajavarma Ballal, president of the state federation of private bus operators.

CCTF Report

27 October 2008 - 1:43am — silkboard

A Commuter Comfort Task Force (CCTF) was setup in 199x to suggest improvements to Bangalore's public transportation system. Since BMTC bus was the only mode of public transport, this task force was essentially setup to consult with BMTC. CCTF produced a report outlining some suggestions, most important of which was around routing of BMTC buses.

Bangalore Apartments - How safe are they?

26 October 2008 - 8:04am — Vasanth

Bangalore is becoming like apartment city. So many apartments and many apartments have overtaken the Utility Building in terms of number of floors. How safe are they ? How well are they constructed ?

Meeting with BMRC MD, Mr N Sivasailam

25 October 2008 - 6:15pm — admin
31 Oct 2008 16:30
31 Oct 2008 17:30
Asia/Calcutta

Update: Oct 30, 12:30 pm - Meeting confirmed, 12-15 of us can go.

Mumbai Selects Monorail Builder

25 October 2008 - 5:15pm — Naveen
Mumbai has selected the Scomi-L&T consortium to build it's Monorail. The first route (20km) is expected to be ready within 3 years. The other bidder, Reliance-Hitachi were eliminated due to longer construction period.

Suggestion of Revision of train services between Bangalore and Mysore after track doubling

25 October 2008 - 9:33am — Vasanth

Mysore Bangalore track doubling is going to be completed by 2011. But, this is not the end of the woes to the travellers. The effective utilization of the doubled track by railways is the key to success.

Open Threat

25 October 2008 - 12:34am — sandeepmr
Quote from article about kannada display boards by Nov 1 

"On Oct. 31 night, around 10,000 KRV workers will go round the city checking display boards of shops and if they find English- only boards, they will either bring them down or blacken them." 

Parliamentary committee recommends UDF witdrawal, reopening HAL

24 October 2008 - 10:04pm — Devesh

In what is sure to be a shock, to both the BIAL and HIAL consortia, the Deccan Chronicle reports, the parliamentary standing committee on transport, tourism and culture, on Thursday October 23, recommended immediate withdrawal of user development fees (UDF) being charged by Hyderabad and Bengaluru airports.

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