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Meeting with Mr. Praveen Sood

23 July 2008 - 2:33pm — admin
26 Jul 2008 10:00
26 Jul 2008 11:00
Asia/Calcutta
Environment
For more details please refer to this post: "Meeting with Mr Sood"

Meeting with Mr Praveen Sood (ACP Bangalore Traffic Police)

23 July 2008 - 1:57pm — Rithesh
EnvironmentTraffic
[Update July 25 6:15 pm : Just called their office and checked, the meeting is still on. Morning 10:30 AM , Venue: Mr Sood's office at "BMTC Complex 2nd Floor, Shivajinagar Bus Stand, Bangalore-560057"]

Tree Exchange

23 July 2008 - 12:19pm — mcadambi

I was wondering, why not create an "Electronic Tree Exchange" right here on Praja. The aim of this should be simple - exchange trees between people instead of killing them outright.

For example, a mall feels having a fully grown Gulmohar tree is blocking it's access and wants to take it down.

But in another part of a city, a citizen has space for the tree in his/her plot. The mall can post details of the tree and the citizen interested could take it from the mall at the cost of the citizen or any other arrangment between the donor and taker.

A disaster awaiting Bengaluru

23 July 2008 - 12:13pm — mcadambi

 

1000 of these disasters will be sold per day and imagine the untold destruction they will cause in Bengaluru!

http://www.livemint.com/2008/07/22000207/Tata-needs-to-sell-30000-Nano.html 

Rationalising and Reforming Bus routes - case study

22 July 2008 - 5:35pm — asj

This is presented in two parts -

First a 10 page summary of a recent e-mail brainstorming over how bus routes in Pune can be rationalised. My arguments are presented as AJ in the document - http://better.pune.googlepages.com/Rationalising_bus_routes_in_Pune.pdf

I am ready to travel in these types of BMTC buses:

22 July 2008 - 8:32am
Vajra (Volvo) Only
34% (62 votes)
Vajra / Pushpak / Suvarna Saarige - No ordinary
22% (40 votes)
Any BMTC bus is OK for me
19% (35 votes)
Pushpak / Suvarna Saarige / Ordinary - Volvo is expensive
5% (9 votes)
Ordinary bus is enough - I need more frequency.
19% (35 votes)
Total votes: 181

Tree vandalisation, suspect - Lifestyle

21 July 2008 - 5:48pm — murali772

Malls are a reality in today's world, whether one is prepared to accept them or not. While the main grouse against them is that they cause severe congestion, particularly when located at already busy traffic junctions without sufficient attention having been paid to channelise the increased traffic flow, there would, on the other hand, certainly be a fairly large section of the local population who welcome their presence in such close proximity. The Oasis mall in Koramangala is one such, about which debates on similar lines can go on endlessly.

Power drought hits Belgaum:6 to 12 hours power cut

21 July 2008 - 1:13pm — belgaumblog
Power

Get ready for an almost black out. From today the 12 hours of load shedding will be done in the city. The CM, Yedurappa will make a statement in the assembly today on this and the timetable for the load shedding could be out.

This morning on Mysore Road

21 July 2008 - 10:05am — Ravi_D

I’m new to Praja and this is my first post. My apologies if I managed to mess things up posting this. Ha, and thanks to folks who were so cordial at the TWG meeting on Saturday!

Travelling this morning on Mysore Road, got caught in a big mess. Unusual that early in the morning. Cause: Vrushabhavati Drain at the ORR junction obviously overflowed after rains last night. Intersection was full of a grand mixture of mud, litter and water. Crews were trying to clean up in the middle of the traffic. And that too with their hands! Not a single clean-up machine at work.

Keep the saarige, let go yelli-iddira

21 July 2008 - 8:01am — tsubba
Understanding competition as a/the solution for public transit. Muralidhar rao's praja post is a starting point for the discussion on competizing public transport. The other day, during the PTWG meeting, when the issue of the pathetic condition of BMTC's website and demise of yelli-iddira came up, he broke into an impassioned and yet articulate speech. I cannot recollect his exact words, but his basic point was that BMTC lacks any competitive or regulatory pressure and hence the pathetic state of those services. The only way to get service levels to improve is to open its domain for competition. I have heard his basic position many times, but to hear him make his case in person was a friends,countrymen and romans moment for me. In any case, his speech got me thinking ...

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