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Open Data Project - putting on hold

Governance

Give the current state of digitization, automation, and storage and access within most government departments, some of us have realized that this project requires far more bandwidth than we can afford at this point of time.

Possible priority bus corridors

BusPublic Transport

Continuing from previous discussion, possible routes...

1) St.Patricks, Brigade Rd to ITPL (on Old Airport rd) ==> focus for our project here.

2) RM Guttahalli to Yelahanka (along Bellary Rd)

Bangalore - a vanishing act of 25paise/50 paise in circulation?

Economy

Dear Readers, have you noticed when you go shopping for groceries/ or hire an auto- you face the problem of paying the exact amount. More often than not you pay-up extra. The amount un-mindful of the other party in picture, the billing agent or the autowallah rounds of the figure to the next rupee.- Say if your grocery bill has come up to 100.78 paise- she /he says 101Rs.

Was October Bus Day Different?

BusPublic Transport

As a monthly routine tried to lay my hands on news for this month's Bus Day. Only TOI had a some passing reference to today's Bus Day campaign.But BMTC website was boasting about todays bus day being unique. Is it really?

Chennai's elevated BRT system

BusPublic Transport

While Bangalore planners are still toying with BRT concept, Chennai seems to have an elevated corridor identified for BRT (Bus Rapid Transport System). Wonder if we have some Chennai geeks here who can enlighten how the corridor was identified, and history of the BRT idea in Chennai in general.

Docs related to controlling traffic growth

have attached some docs related to parking (HU's comments to DULT on their parking policy) and the HU mobility manifesto (in kannada and english), though these docs might be useful for people working on this project.

 

not sure if this was the best way to attach these docs, so in case its not ok, dont feel upset :-)

The Metro may not be best answer to our urban traffic woes

Metro RailPublic Transport

Mobility, not metro, by Himanshu Burt, Business Standard, Oct 2:

The Metro may not be best answer to our urban traffic woes

Lobby for BRT in Bangalore - focus Big10, Circle routes?

BusPublic Transport

First things first. If you don't like BRT, think it absolutely can't be done, please keep out, and discuss on other posts. This thread is for those who think that BRT in some sort or form (dedicated corridors, only at some places, or priority signals, or bus only magic boxes, or whatever) is needed for Bangalore, and can possibly be done.

Hello to all from anonymous coward

Praja related

Hello to everyone from anonymous coward, (short: acoward) at Praja. I am new here and like all this talking walking you people do. Listen, write to me at acoward [at] praja.in if you have stories that you are afriad to tell everyone.

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