Skip to Content

Top Rated Posts

Rate what you read to control what appears here!

Guangzhou – Many lessons for Bangalore

20 September 2009 - 7:54pm — Naveen
InfrastructureUrban Development

The third largest city in China, Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, is a city of about 8 million & is similar in population /size to Bangalore. It lies at a distance of a mere 2 hours (by road or rail) from Hong-Kong, in southern China.

Open Drains Versus Point of Source Infiltration

20 September 2009 - 10:41am — RKCHARI

Open Drains
Point of Source Infiltration
C

The Pedestrian Crush

19 September 2009 - 7:33am — sandeepmr
InfrastructureTrafficPedestrian Infrastructure

This is what Bangalore needs to learn as we move on.The reason it's so crowded here is not because there's not enough space, it's because we give all of our space to the least spatially-efficient form of transportation available.

Sustainable public transport system - high level requirements

19 September 2009 - 5:39am — blrpraj
Urban DevelopmentBusPublic Transport

This has been long pending in my mind after reading and contributing to various praja posts over almost a year. I took a stab at a document that analyzes the high level requirements of a integrated public transportation network for Bangalore that can ultimately cater to long term growth.

Wheeler Road Flyover - A Saga in mismanagement

19 September 2009 - 12:36am — vinod_shankar
Infrastructure

Background of the project: Rail over bridge from wheeler road to banaswadi.  A joint project between BBMP and south western railways.

Bellandur Lake - Huge (Wet) Land filling in progress!

17 September 2009 - 10:59pm — psaram42
EnvironmentLakesEverything else

Road Side Land Fill example -1

Road Side Land Fill example -2

Kadugodi Fly Over - A need for Bridging a commuting gap

17 September 2009 - 2:48pm — Ramesh Menon
Infrastructure

Being a resident of Kadugodi village, whitefield area, I always have to depend on the Whitefield railway gate to go across to the main town. The flyover to ease the smooth flow of traffic at the Kadugodi area / Whitefield station, which is situated just in front of the Sai Baba ashram has been remaining incomplete for a considerable period of time.

‘Citizens for City’ contest

17 September 2009 - 1:18pm — murali772
Urban DevelopmentEverything else

To enable citizens to participate and come up with innovative strategies for developing the city and improve the quality of life, FFC (Foundation for Futuristic Cities) has announced ‘Citizens for City’ contest. Anyone can draft a well-researched strategy from a list of 30 topics given on the foundation’s website, www.citizensforcity.org.

New feature - search Bengaluru related sarkaari websites

16 September 2009 - 9:12pm — tech
Praja related

No big deal this, but we have put up a new feature wherein you can search through all well known Bengaluru related public websites. Its essentially a list of all sarkaari websites pointed out by the geeks of Praja.in put inside a "custom search" widget that will search only this universe of 25-30 websites.

NICE Expressway toll and receipt, taxes?

16 September 2009 - 8:46pm — silkboard
Infrastructure

Wanted to share an observation. Usually, on getting a receipt, I take a quick glance to see if it is "proper". I am told a proper one is supposed to have a number, date, and tax id number of the business that is issuing it.



about seo