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Airlines, staff want existing airports to stay

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As per this story in Business-Standard:

"... lobbying to prevent closure of the existing facilities — at the Airport Authority of India’s Begumpet airport in Hyderabad and HAL airport in Bangalore — has got louder"

CTTP Bangalore - Still some weaknesses

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Whilst this is obviously an elaborate study, the recommendations for Mass Transit systems still raises a few questions :

Following sarkaari projects

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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.

Less Cars More Kids In The Streets

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A presentation on urban transport by Lloyd Wright of STUP. please see the embedded slide show below or see this page.

Bangalore CTTP for you!

Ever since we have heard about CTTP for Bangalore, we have always wanted to get our hands on it. We have been anticipating its release and have been grabbing the tidbits that were floating around.

But now Ladies and Gentlemen, the wait is over. We, the ever resourceful admins of Praja have been able to get our hands on the full copy and for your convenience have it posted here.

You can start by reading an executive summary here. Once you click on the link, you will see a new menu on your right hand side that links to each of the chapters of the CTTP. It is structured like a book so you can also use the links below each page to navigate.

Now, wear your thinking caps and start analysing the plan.

Chapter–4 Development Of Operational Travel Demand Model

CHAPTER – 4 DEVELOPMENT OF OPERATIONAL TRAVEL DEMAND MODEL

Download chapter 4 external link PDF 374kb

Chapter–3 Existing Traffic And Travel Characteristics

CHAPTER – 3 EXISTING TRAFFIC AND TRAVEL CHARACTERISTICS

Download Chapter 3 External link PDF 630KB

Chapter–1 Introduction

CHAPTER – 1 INTRODUCTION

Download chapter 1 external link pdf 6MB

Chapter–6 Future Demand Analysis And System Selection

CHAPTER – 6 FUTURE DEMAND ANALYSIS AND SYSTEM SELECTION

See attachment (pdf 216.3 kb)

 

Chapter–9 Cost Estimates, Phasing And Financing Plan

CHAPTER– 9 COST ESTIMATES, PHASING AND FINANCING PLAN

See Attachment (pdf 186.75 kb)



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