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  • Cauvery junction underpass - maintenance?

    15 March 2008 - 12:00pm — silkboard
    Traffic

    Now that the underpass is ready, its time to maintain it. So BBMP is asking for private parties to undertake maintenance of Cauvery junction underpass on BOT basis (tender here). Private parties keeping the underpass clean and painted etc while they make money displaying advertisements, that is fine. But after reading the document, I was confused as to what is the "build" part of BOT (build, operate transfer) here. I thought the underpass was ready. BBMP has mentioned a penalty clause for delay in construction:

  • Dumping Grounds

    28 February 2008 - 10:20am — Vijay

    Heres something thats totally counterproductive.

    For all of you who have travelled on the Bangalore/Mysore road, the Vrishabhavathi canal on the outskirts of Bangalore is a familiar sight. Theres also a water treatment plant that was set up at great cost just before Kengeri.

  • Mechanical sweepers for Bellary Road

    27 January 2008 - 2:51pm — silkboard

    Hope you heard about BBMP planning to employ Mechanical Sweepers for Bellary Road (Hebbal Flyover to Airport entrance). When I saw the document with work details (See page 15 here), I was thinking about how the winning bidder will manage to accomplish all that BBMP wants.

    First of all, I don't know why the Mechanical Sweeper thing is getting so much importance. Read some lines below:

  • Story of Bangalore traffic - in pictures

    16 January 2008 - 12:15am — silkboard
    EnvironmentTraffic

    This is how it begins, so I told you a few months ago. Nothing but a no-parking sign in June. Small shops sprung up in August. September: two wheelers parked and pedestrians off the pavements. Now, no-parking sign is almost gone, and road-side parking is common on Varthur road, right next to the busy Kundalahalli intersection. Unregulated construction, irresponsible small businesses who think roads are free parking space, motorists with scant respect for no-parking signs, and no enforcement of pedestrian rights (pavements are almost gone) - this my friends, is the story of most roads and intersections in Bangalore with annoying traffic congestions. Pictures tell the story - Aug, Sep and Jan:

  • 56 motorized sky walks for pedestrians!

    30 December 2007 - 10:53pm — silkboard
    Pedestrian Infrastructure

    Not that BBMP doesn't care for pedestrians. They have been talking about motorized sky walks for sometime now, and earlier this week, a BBMP tender showed up with plans for sky walks all around the city - 56 of them, and with escalators!

    "These sky walks are proposed with attractive escalators of adequate capacity on both sides of the road which shall facilitate the vertical movement of the users for climbing as well alighting purposes"

    As I said, the fancy skywalk talk isn't new. Earlier this year, BBMP had plans for 30 "capsule lift" based sky walks, refer this tender dated 12th Feb 2007:

  • Sakrama - setting things right?

    4 December 2007 - 12:02am — silkboard

    Saturday afternoon, I spotted this notice in front of a commercial building in Banashankari. One look at the building, and I could guess what it could be. The building has a basement - must have been approved for parking usage - that houses retail stores. [PS: obfuscated the address etc from photo]

    After looking at this BBMP notice, this is what I was thinking. How many commercial buildings of this size (not too large, not too small) would have violations? From what I see, perhaps a good 30-40%. If you include the newly added peripheral areas (the new B in BBMP), I bet the percentage would be higher.

  • Following sarkaari projects

    18 November 2007 - 10:20pm — silkboard
    Governance

    How would you like the ability to watch and follow all work that our local governments do? All concerned citizens want it. A lot of work needs to happen though to make such a thing possible. Fancy websites for bodies like BBMP and BMRC are only the face, there need to be internal government systems to store and expose the information about their workings. And then you need easy to use tools that sarkaari babus and engineers would use to enter information into these systems.

    Forget the technicalities for a moment. What we want is this. Tender gets floated for a work, we see it. We should then see all the bids, and the winner. And then on, the status and progress of work. Last, after the work gets completed, the details of how it was signed off as completed or successful.

  • BG Road Hosur Road shortcut and BBMP's road work

    12 November 2007 - 9:28pm — silkboard
    Traffic

    A good shortcut from Banerghatta road to Hosur road might be possible sometime soon. I dont really know the location of all the villages and layouts mentioned, but looks like BBMP is upgrading and asphalting a lot of roads in the Bommanahalli/Begur, Arekere area. Sample some:

    - Improvements and Asphalting to road from Begur road to Hosur main road via Hongasandra Garvebavipalya (1st Main Road) - 30 lakhs.

    - Improvements and Asphalting the Devarachikkanahalli main road (Begur road connecting Vijayabank layout) - 30 lakhs.

  • Mistakes in BBMP website

    5 November 2007 - 9:40am — namithavarma
    I am a journalism student and would like to know your reactions to the spelling mistakes, or other problems that u find with bmponline.org. Can anyone pls help me out? How can the website made better? My email id is varmanamitha@gmail.com Pls get back to me...

  • Roads over storm water drains - what happened?

    17 October 2007 - 1:10am — silkboard
    Traffic

    Remember this interesting call for expression of interest that appeared on BBMP website earlier this year (here):

    "BBMP intends to create a road net work above the main storm water drain wherever feasible ... total length of primary and secondary drain net work is 250 km spread over the entire city."

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