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Poor show by BMTC drivers

25 December 2010 - 1:41pm — murali772
BusPublic Transport

Despite many efforts and initiatives to improve driving skills of drivers of the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), results have not matched the expectations. According to data available, this year (till December) 82 people have died in various accidents involving BMTC buses.The number of deaths recorded last year was also 82.

Local Rail for Bengaluru with existing rail lines

25 December 2010 - 12:16pm — ravichandar
Commuter RailPublic Transport

Here is a suggestion to solve Bangalore's traffic problems, also crop up a series of improvements. Railways as mass rapid transport system can play a very big role in solving this problem. Bangalore has railway lines in almost all the directions. It is feasible to ply local trains on these lines.

Industrial Hub next on Tumkur Rail Line : Nidvanda

24 December 2010 - 8:00pm — Sanjeev
Commuter RailPublic Transport

Mr Lalit Jain's request letter in Karnataka State Industrial Times at Page No 16 of  Nov 2010 edition for Local Trains :

Government apologies

24 December 2010 - 3:23pm — murali772
Governance

Australia on Thursday apologized to Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef for wrongly detaining him on terror charges three years back, saying it was a mistake and hoped that the compensation paid to him will mark the end of an “unfortunate chapter”.

Right to response in English, an official language of GoK

24 December 2010 - 11:14am — murali772
Governance

What is clearly noticeable, of recent, particularly after the RTI usage has become quite extensive, is the mis-use of Kannada by government officials to deny information, through plain obfuscation (This is apart from other subtle, and not-so subtle, ways of denying information being adopted - click h

Workshop on Urban Mobility, IISc, Jan 10 (Mobilicity)

23 December 2010 - 7:59pm — idontspam
Urban DevelopmentGovernance
10 Jan 2011 14:00
10 Jan 2011 16:30
Asia/Calcutta

Discussions will be held to understand the issues (political, social, economic and technical) for developing livable cities; take a systems view of the challenges being faced; identify possible ways forward. Focus will be put on ways to learn from urban case studies from across the world and capture critical issues and their effective solutions for application in t

Kumaraswamy Layout - going to dogs?

23 December 2010 - 4:06pm — acoward
Urban DevelopmentGovernance

Some real angry words from a whistelblowing resident of Kumaraswamy Layout:

"footpaths proposed in the Metro zone areas"

23 December 2010 - 12:56pm — ashwin
InfrastructurePedestrian Infrastructure

TOI article on ABIDE member Ashwin Mahesh's  wishlist for Bangalore in which he is quoted as saying, 

"The footpaths proposed in the Metro zone areas around stations are a good beginning"

mail to BMRC on namma metro station names

23 December 2010 - 10:04am — naveen_blr
Metro RailPublic Transport

Thanks Sir,

I am delighted to receive your response.
I do understand some of the concerns you have raised , these can be reduced/fixed using various options.

1.Some company like Infosys/ Satyam would like to maximum put up their hoardings in the stations which would anyways be the case even if we do not lease out the station to them.

Namma Railu in News Again - This time Deccan Herald

23 December 2010 - 1:55am — kbsyed61
Commuter RailPublic Transport

Deccan Herald today carried a news item titled "NGO dusts off commuter rail idea" with a NR map.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/122932/ngo-dusts-off-commuter-rail.html



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