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Airport Road Woes

This is to draw the attention of people who use and/or stay around the Airport Road in Bangalore.

Car Free Day Awareness @ Bangalore

Public Transport

Hi,

This is to update on the progress of ESAF in creating awareness and celebration of the same on account of International Car Free Day which falls on 22nd Sept. As this year we found more like minded people who are interested for the program, we have scheduled programs for 2 weeks.

BESCOM financials

This is the transcript of a facebook thread following BESCOM posting their financial statement online. They invited comments and some questions were asked by me and others which I am selectively reproducing here for all to read, with credits.

The 1 Rupee Dilemma

Bus

The 1 Rupee Dilemma is how i would call it.

The board a Bus from Jeevanahalli to Shivajinagar on a regular basis. The cost of the Bus ticket is Rs 9. 

Daily TOI coverage on Garbage Crisis “The Muck stops here”

Pollution

TOI has a daily coverage of the Garbage crisis for the past 23 days. To day’s TOI have 2 articles relating to Bangalore Garbage crisis.

  1. The muck stops here Day 24 article by Sunita Rao
  2. BSY Ananthkumar Tug of war

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How a Russian city got its politicians to do their work

The video clip, linked below, shows how a Russian city managed to get the powers that be of the city to do their work. Can we possibly make such an approach work in Namma Bengaluru? Or, are our politicians too thick-skinned compared to those in Russia, or elsewhere? May be worth finding out.

Muralidhar Rao

BMTC Strike - what have we learnt?

Bus

Public Transport in Bangalore today means Bus which is solely run by BMTC. During business as usual this looks good but its in crisis situations like todays strike that the deficit of not investing in multiple modes or using modern methodologies of running operations can hurt.

Dry vs Oil type Power Transformers

To minimize the iron loss during transmission, power needs to be transmitted at a very high voltage. Series of transformers reduce the voltage of the electricity supplied by the towers to a level suitable for use by the electric equipment in the city [220 domestic / 440 Industry].  

Bescom's transformers' transformation

BBMP in "league" with Bescom is replacing the big, ugly transformers with leaner ones.  Some snippets from ToI and Citizen Matters:

CRS - Campaign to send 100 Petitions to CM asking for immediate approval

Commuter Rail

Dear Prajagale,

Time has come for all of us to join and support the 'Namma Railu' team in demanding immediate approval to the 'Commuter Rail Project'. Namma Railu team is starting a campaign for sending at least '100 Petitions' to Chief Minister and other government machinery. Please help NR team in this effort.

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