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Water supply outsourcing welcome - but, why the secrecy?

30 November 2010 - 7:23pm — murali772

The state has apparently launched on a programme to 'privatise' water supply in quite a few cities in the state, going by the below clip from NewsX.

 

Not more auto's; instead, good shuttle bus services please!

30 November 2010 - 1:55pm — murali772
BusPublic Transport

The transport department and traffic police are mulling over reforms that could scale up the number of autorickshaws in the city from about 80,000 to 95,000. Simukltaneously, however, the Transport commissioner, Bhaskar Rao, himself states “The system has many anti-social elements. The common man is a victim.

Shortcut routes for Buses

30 November 2010 - 10:32am — Vasanth
BusPublic Transport

 BMTC buses take the main roads whereas private transport takes the short cut routes wherever possible. This in comparison will increase the travel time of BMTC buses as against private transport making  private transport more attractive.

 

State of Pedestrians in Bangalore

29 November 2010 - 3:37pm — idontspam
InfrastructurePedestrian Infrastructure

Footpaths: This film was made by Samarth Saran, Saumya Tyagi and Bharat Sharma — a team of three people from the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore who took part in the short-film making competition held at IIM Ahmedabad’s flagship management festival Confluence 2010.

Transport Mafia in Kalasipalyam

29 November 2010 - 2:25pm — imran_huq17
Governance

I have been trying to complain against the issue of the Transport mafia in our locality in bangalore.However i am getting no response from the police department or BBMP . This locality is one of the oldest areas , but unfortunately has been severely neglected. We the residents of

'development' under police protection

28 November 2010 - 7:21pm — Public Agenda
Urban DevelopmentGovernance

Is this how people are excluded from the way policy and schemes are implemented?

Sky-walk, literally

28 November 2010 - 5:38pm — murali772
InfrastructurePedestrian Infrastructure

The BBMP, it would appear, likes to impart literal meaning to the term sky-walk. This set (pictures below), coming up at the High Grounds junction (facing the Sophia school, and behind Basava Bhavan), has a ground clearance enough for a BMTC bus to pass under, even with a full grown adult standing erect on top.

The Radia Tapes

28 November 2010 - 10:56am — pdk
Governance

I'm sure a lot of Praja users have read about and listened to The Radia Tapes and derived a lot of joy and/or sorrow out of them. Others may not be aware of where to access them since the media has virtually blacked out the news, except for some old fogies like The Hindu, Outlook magazine, and DH today and disrespectful upstarts like Open magazine.

Bangalore to Whitefield on Pushpulls

27 November 2010 - 7:44pm — shyamm
Commuter RailPublic Transport

Though my office is in Electronic City, for a new project I had to visit our company's branch office in GRTechPark, Whitefield  for 3 days. This building is next to ITPL.  I had to take public transport on all 3 days  to reach the office  in the afternoons while the drop back home would be provided on the company cab as it would be late in the night.

BCIC submits Commuter Rail proposal to Railway Minister/Board!

26 November 2010 - 10:39am — silkboard
Commuter RailPublic Transport

Namma Railu project team will like to thank BCIC for submitting Commuter Rail proposal to the railway ministry at a pre-budget interaction with the industry groups earlier this week. Please refer to the business standard report today (Nov 26): BCIC seeks clarity on PPP.



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