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BIAL Official Updates January 2008

26 February 2008 - 5:13pm — tsubba
Official updates for January 2008 The integrated trial phase is on at the Bengaluru International Airport. This stage signals the final trial phase of the airport and involves integrating various processes to simulate real life airport operation. The integrated trial phase will continue till next month.

work on the metro..

26 February 2008 - 7:29am

Urban Bhoomi

24 February 2008 - 7:10pm — tsubba
Bhoomi to get urban makeover
TNN Feb 11, 2008

Bangalore Elevated Roads

19 February 2008 - 10:41am — tsubba
A swiss challenge by a consortium of dilli-based IDEB Inc and Shanghai Urban Construction Group, proposes three elevated 2x2 corridors: misnk square to hebbal, kodihalli to kundlahalli gate and vellara jn to silkboard. This ofcourse, is pending government approval.

Road widening doesnt always help!

16 February 2008 - 9:50pm — blrsri
There was this article on the web about research done on traffic congestion. It opens up a new perspective about transport.. "..more road capacity will not by itself substantially reduce congestion. Urbanist Anthony Downs once famously stated that travel demand on freeways rises to meet capacity. If new lanes are added, congestion problems might be lessened in the short run. But that reduced congestion will attract drivers who previously used other routes, traveled at different times of the day, used other modes, or drove less or not at all. New roads and lanes do provide additional mobility and other transportation benefits, but increased road capacity provides less congestion relief than one might expect. "

Should BIAL be subject to RTI?

13 February 2008 - 8:31am

BMTC Services To Bengaluru International Airport

13 February 2008 - 8:23am — tsubba

[Update May 29: Read this and this for experiences around BMTC Airport buses.]

The BMTC has released the fares of the soon to be introduced ‘Airport Bus Service’ to BIAL, connecting the airport from eight locations of the city. These buses will be numbered as BIAL 1 to 7 for the first seven routes that are expected to hit the roads in the last week of March.

New BDA layouts

11 February 2008 - 5:45pm — alagiri
Does anybody have updates on the status of the cabinet approval on the proposed new BDA layouts. -Alagiri

5-day week can save govt Rs 960 cr pa

9 February 2008 - 7:07pm — murali772
Rs 960 crore per annum. That's the estimated savings if state government offices across Karnataka switch over to a five-day week. And that savings could be used to construct 30 flyovers, each estimated at Rs 32 crore.

Feb 08 BIAL Update

9 February 2008 - 7:44am — blrsri
- Panthers(fire fighting equipment) have arrvied from Austria and tested and being commissioned - Successful migration of airlines IT systems to the new airport has taken place and the check-in process via airline systems can now be tested. - Basic trials are now in the concluding stages.

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