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Parthenium

29 August 2007 - 5:31pm — karthink
Hello all, I am a resident of Jayanagar 4th T block. There is a site near my house where a lot of parthenium has grown. As this weed is a very harmful and environmental unfriendly, I wanted the BBMP guys to clean up. But even after several complaints (thru phone calls on the number 22975760)they have not done anything.

Minority Biased Junctions

29 August 2007 - 2:41pm — rajatbhatla

About 4 years ago, Bangalore got its spanking new 200 ft wide double laned with 40 feet service lanes, Outer Ring road...

One would drive up here to break free from the traffic snarls elsewhere in the city...and check if their spanky investments still worked at high speeds.

Mostly worked fine, until a small hitch started showing up first little, then some more... and these days in full measure...

Gathering pace

29 August 2007 - 10:23am — shas3n

Here is an interesting article from Frontline that gives an overview of developmental situation in Bangalore.

It talks about future plans for many organisations like BMTC.

Some excerpts.

Keeping it Going

29 August 2007 - 10:16am — tsubba
Would congestion disappear if we somehow magically manage to widen to all the roads in the city? Is traffic management all about road widening? Ashwin Mahesh, the head of Mapunity Information Services, discusses some of the fundamental issues about traffic and argues that analysis and information is the way out.

Shops and parking - This is how it begins

28 August 2007 - 1:31pm — silkboard
Recently, while passing through Kundalahalli gate, I noticed that some shops had suddenly sprung up on an empty plot. Going by what I understand of BBMP bylaws, the construction does seem illegal. These shops are literally standing on the footpath, and bang on a major intersection. Of course, there is no place to park bikes or cars here. So once they start doing business, customers' vehicles could block some serious traffic (intersection of Varthur Road and Brookfield main road leading to ITPL).

Bangalore Airport: The CRS Option

28 August 2007 - 7:19am — tsubba
With the new airport set to open, ideas on how to get there have flown thick and fast. Here are some thoughts on leveraging the existing rail network.

The Albert Brunner Interview

28 August 2007 - 6:31am — tsubba
I am deeply convinced that we could become a regional hub for the southern part of India,” says Mr Albert Brunner, Chief Executive Officer, Bangalore International Airport Ltd, of the new airport in Bangalore that will begin handling flights in March 2008. He feels that Bangalore is at an advantage when compared with Hyderabad, where too a new airport will be inaugurated at least a month before Bangalore’s goes on stream, mainly because of Bangalore’s larger domestic market and its greater commercial importance vis-À-vis Hyderabad. In an interview at the Devanahalli airport, now under construction, Mr Brunner, a civil engineer by profession with a postgraduate training in business administration, discusses the airport’s progress and its prospects. Mr Brunner has been in the airport business for the last 15 years and was a key player in the planning and realisation of Zurich Airport’s fifth expansion programme. Bangalore International Airport Ltd has been formed by Siemens of Germany, Unique Zurich Airport, Larsen & Toubro Ltd, Karnataka Government and the Airports Authority of India.

Delhi Metro - Things to be learnt from it

26 August 2007 - 5:35pm — Vasanth
After watching the program on Discovery on Delhi Metro, I was really amazed the way in which it has been done within India and an international channel like discovery has appreciated it. Vision of one man - Shreedharan is amazing. Following are the things I felt that should be incorporated in our Bangalore Metro.

Let us ask BDA/BBMP?

24 August 2007 - 9:08am — admin

Our long term goal at Praja is to do more than blogs and discussions. For that, we first have to grow into a larger community of like minded concerned residents of this city. While we are not there yet, how about we try this experiment on the subject of alternate routes from Bannerghatta Road to Hosur Road.

What we need is a good connection somewhere between NICE Peripheral Road and Outer Ring Road. For a start, how about we post a suggestion cum question to BDA/BBMP, and do it this way:

- frame one short and precise paragraph on this - find email id or sarkaari website where we could post this - at least 20-30 of us will post this exact query

Airport expressway update

23 August 2007 - 8:02pm — silkboard

We have all been screaming on the subject for a while now. But this business-standard update on BIAL expressway is interesting, because it talks dates:

... sources said many powerful politicians also owned land along the alignment ... and wanted it changed ... “We changed the alignment five times unofficially before freezing it. But they are still not satisfied. If the land acquisition process is completed by July, the expressway will be ready by March 2009 but that appears improbable. As things stand, the expressway will not be ready even by 2009-end,” a source said.

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