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Last mile connectivity – panacea for most PT problems

16 February 2010 - 12:05am — ashfaq syed
BusPublic Transport

The results of the recently concluded praja survey to find why people don’t use PT, shows that the last mile connectivity is the issue for only 10% of the people. I was surprised and so did so many praja members commenting on the survey results.  Well, once I analyzed the comments, I realized that it is not 10% but, it is actually more than 60% and people di

New Chennai-Bangalore road

15 February 2010 - 5:33pm — idontspam
Infrastructure

The travelling time between Chennai and Bangalore by road could get shorter with the governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka evaluating

possibilities of reducing distance between the two cities to about 250km from the present 350km, with plans also afoot to promote this route as an industrial and m

Shirady repairs no takers- NH in a fix

15 February 2010 - 2:24pm — idontspam
Infrastructure

Shirady repairs no takers- NH in a fix

 “According to the recommendations a truck with 6 wheels can carry up to 10 tonnes and truck with 10 wheels can carry up to 16 tonnes. But the Transport authorities were allowing them to carry 40 tonnes”.

Experience of A Visit to Big Bazaar @ Malleswaram

14 February 2010 - 5:45pm — ranga
Everything else

Big Bazaar has opened its shop at the old geethanjali theatre complex.....even tough is good for shopping and shopping experience for the malleswaram residents, it is come with lots of nightmare to the public. Few of them i noticed with one visit this weekend are :-

CAG is auditing Water Pollution - any lake to suggest?

14 February 2010 - 12:32pm — silkboard
LakesPollutionEverything elseWater

By the way guys, saw ads in papers saying that CAG is conducting a performance audit on the subject of Water Pollution and that if we want to draw attention of CAG to any particular instance of water pollution, we can reach them at their email/fax. See details in the ad image below.

Commuter Rail - Will it ever materialize ?

13 February 2010 - 10:42pm — Naveen
Commuter RailPublic Transport

Most of us are aware that the CTTP-2007 report had recommended a Commuter /Sub-urban rail system for the city, totalling 204.0km (this includes city & suburban services upto Tumkur, Hosur & Ramanagaram). A few sub-urban trains are in operation & are being run by Southwestern railways (SWR), but the system is not of much help to urban commuters.

New Age Political Movement in India

13 February 2010 - 5:44pm — psaram42
15 Feb 2010 05:30
Asia/Calcutta
PoliticsEverything elseGovernance

 

Monday February 15, 2010 

5:30 – 7:30PM

4th floor, Auditorium, St Josephs College of Commerce, 163,  Brigade Road, Bangalore. 

Praja Meeting at Freedom Park

13 February 2010 - 4:34pm — Naveen
Praja related

Silkboard (Pranav), Vinod, Sri, Mr Ananthram, Mr Pathy, Srivatsava, Raghunandana, myself & few others met at Freedom park earlier toady - wish many others could have made it too (apologies to those that did attend, but whose names I have missed out).

Amongst various discussions, it was emphasized that priority was needed for meetings with BMTC & BMRCL to discuss issues.

A peep into MRTS at Chennai

11 February 2010 - 5:42pm — Naveen
Commuter RailPublic Transport

These are recent pictures of the MRTS (Commuter /Suburban Rail) at Chennai. New elevated tracks have been added, but these pictures are from an old line on the surface, between Beach & Tambaram.



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