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Now, a parking lot under Military Memorial Park

25 December 2010 - 5:05pm — murali772

Green activists are up in arms against BBMP's plan to construct a basement parking bay inside Indira Gandhi Musical Fountain park. Speaking to TOI, Vinay Srinivasa of Hasiru Usiru, an NGO, said that the project was ridiculous.

Organize Mobilicity Workshops at CiSTUP

25 December 2010 - 4:43pm — admin

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Description: Group to organize Mobilicity workshops along with CiSTUP

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Praja RAAG

Some folks at Praja are working with CiSTUP to organize solution focused workshop on public transportation. The workshop is being organized on the sidelines of CiSTUP foundation day events. The technical sessions being planned are:

Poor show by BMTC drivers

25 December 2010 - 1:41pm — murali772

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

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

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

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

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

Start: 10 Jan 2011 14:00

End: 10 Jan 2011 16:30

Timezone: 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