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KR Puram meeting - pics

14 February 2009 - 2:09pm — silkboard
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7 of us showed up, 6 in one batch and 1 on his own (came to know later) for this event. Met Kannan for the first time and speaking to him made it clear that he has given detailed thoughts to possible solutions for this chaos. He will soon be scanning and posting his sketches here.

ABIDE Plans - More buses to the BMTC Fleet?

14 February 2009 - 4:28am — kbsyed61
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If we look at the Bengaluru Plan2020 and news that has appeared in the media suggests that for decongestion on B'lore roads, more buses are required and hence plan to add more buses to the BMTC fleet. Here is the scoop from DH

Pedestrian bridge across Intermediate Ring Road

12 February 2009 - 9:37pm — deepakar
Pedestrian Infrastructure

Embassy Golf Links on Intermediate Ring Road, Koramangala is one of first IT parks in Bangalore and houses large facilities of several MNCs such as IBM, Microsoft, Netapp, Yahoo and Goldman Sachs. This campus houses thousands of employees. One huge problem that the employees face is to cross the street right outside their facility.

Bengaluru Mono Rail - proposal details

12 February 2009 - 1:50am — idontspam
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There is a proposal for runing Mono Rail in Bangalore by SCOMI-Geodesic consortium which is proposed to be awarded using the swiss-challenge method. As per initial high level information sent to Praja the consortium is proposing to build monorail along the three corridors.

Walk for your freedom, rally for your rights

11 February 2009 - 10:59am — murali772
12 Feb 2009 14:30
12 Feb 2009 16:30
Asia/Calcutta

COALITION FOR DEMOCRACY

WALK  FOR   YOUR   FREEDOM....   RALLY   FOR  YOUR   RIGHTS...

Join Hands Against Moral Policing and Attacks On Women

11 February 2009 - 8:38am — Rithesh
12 Feb 2009 13:30
12 Feb 2009 14:00
Asia/Calcutta

[Posting on behalf of Dr. Rajeev Gowda]. There is tremendous anger, disgust and fear about the actions of the "moral police." We have witnessed attacks on women and threats to our choices as citizens of free India. To enable people all over Bengaluru (and elsewhere) to express their feelings in a Gandhian way, we are conducting a series of simultaneous peace protests.

HOHO off to a slow start

11 February 2009 - 7:13am — s_yajaman
BusPublic Transport

Saw this in this morning's DH.  Not surprised that it is off to a slow start. 

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Feb112009/city20090211117812.asp

A case of wrong fining

10 February 2009 - 6:14pm — murali772
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My wife received a challan by post a few days back for "holding/ using a mobile phone while driving" asking to pay up Rs 100/- fine as per Sec 230(A) KMV rules R/W 177 IMV. The incident was supposed to have happened at 9.40 hrs on Monday, 19th Jan, at Rajajinagara Entrance Circle.

VIP Convoy Privilege

10 February 2009 - 9:33am — Ravi_D
Traffic

Last evening a convoy driving into the city had traffic stopped in both directions for at least 15 minutes on Mysore Road. I was waiting near the end of the flyover, headed out of the city and was wondering what in the world was the reason, until I saw some 5 vehicles of a convoy zoom into the city on the other side of the road.

Lokayukta's reply to our first RTI

9 February 2009 - 10:46pm — admin

Some of us here wanted to know more about the Lokayukta office than what the newspapers tell us. Once the excitement of raids and big names get over, we rarely get to know the closure of those cases. So why not ask Lokayukta on a regular basis? Here is what we asked via an RTI application to start with:



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