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Traffic Advisory Committee

20 December 2011 - 12:58pm — murali772
Enforcement

The new Additional Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Dr Saleem, IPS, has instituted a Traffic Advisory Committee (TAC), comprising traffic 'experts' from across the city, which incidentally includes three PRAJA members - Pranav, Sathya, and myself - to interact with the traffic police at the highest level on a monthly basis, with a view to finding solutions for the city&

Banashankari TTMC Creating more trouble than convenience

18 December 2011 - 10:53pm — Vasanth
Public Transport

Recently inaguarated TTMC is causing hassles to all the buses travelling from Western Portion of Bangalore towards East such as the 201, 201R, 500 K etc.. All the buses are now forced to enter and exit the Banashankari TTMC. The entrance and exit being narrower, as well as capacity being lower is resulting in pile up of Buses.

Drunk drivers of Bengaluru = 4 Crore worth black money?

17 December 2011 - 9:23pm — silkboard
EnforcementTraffic

Now that I have had 10 second hand reports on this, its time to do some math on the black money generated by drunken drivers of Bangalore. I am yet to experience this first hand (hope never to), those who have, say that they pay anywhere from Rs 1500 - 2500 in all after they get booked for drunken driving.

birth of a footpath

17 December 2011 - 7:02am — bialterminal
InfrastructurePedestrian Infrastructure

I had the privilege of watching the construction of a footpath in Southern California recently and capture some images over the few days the construction was in progress. I had always wondered how these good quality footpaths were constructed.

Banana Republic

13 December 2011 - 11:13pm — murali772
Public Health

It is highly unlikely that all the directors of AMRI, Kolkata, were in charge of day-to-day functioning of the hospital. It was the same when the Bhopal disaster happened.

Dangerous Hospitals this time

12 December 2011 - 12:51pm — psaram42
Public Health

Recently a fire tragedy killed many patients at a Kolkata hospital. The trusties of the hospital were arrested.

Socio-Economic Challenges of smart cities in India IISc meet

10 December 2011 - 8:14pm — psaram42

 

The Seminar was attended by five Praja 1)Venu, 2)PSA, 3)Pathy, 4)Satya and 5)Pranav. A smart Agenda and Speaker Profiles were available along with a nice bag given to each of the delegates.

Most of the talk went overboard for me. The following were exceptions

1.      Mr. Suresh Heblikar,

Hazardous installations

10 December 2011 - 7:48pm — murali772
InfrastructurePedestrian Infrastructure

This picture was taken on the footpath opposite Aadishwar showroom on the intermediate ring road (some 50M before the start of the Domlur fly-over ramp - approaching from Koramangala side). While such instances are not isolated across the city, what I found unique about this particular installation was its cross-arm covering almost the entire width of the footpath.

Autorickshaw - Case for a decent service and good business model!

10 December 2011 - 8:47am — kbsyed61
Public Transport

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Mere mention of word 'Auto' starts ringing the bell of many different voice. Don't these voices sound familiar?



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