March 2008

Same state of ATC, but HIAL OKed and BIAL grounded

27 March 2008 - 5:39pm — thebangalorean

Hyderabad’s new international airport does not have a fully functional Air Control Tower, also known as an ATC!CNBC-TV18’s Faye D'souza found out that part of the Air Traffic Control operations is still being done at the old Begumpet Airport.

Harnessing a scarce resource

27 March 2008 - 11:24am — murali772

Governor Rameshwar Thakur's call for constituting a 'Water Resources Regulatory Authority', vide the report in your columns on 26th March under the caption 'PPP can be answer to water scarcity', has not come a day too soon.

The need for BRTS

26 March 2008 - 8:01pm — Naveen

This refers to the article in TOI & the guest column by Muralidhar Rao.

The basic premise on which public transport is based is that if the road seems too narrow with high volumes of traffic, there is a case for public transport. The higher the volume of traffic on a road, the stronger is the case for public transport.

In India, the low–cost /low–quality public buses are now not preferred by the upwardly mobile strata. Rail-based systems (such as Metro /Monorail) are very expensive to build & maintain & will therefore, not have extensive reach for a long time to come. The city cannot make do with widening roads & adding elevated roads continuously. No city has ever been able to “build” its way out of the problem. A new, faster & cost efficient system is required for quality conscious groups, over & above the existing low quality bus network. BRTS fulfills these requirements & is perhaps, the only available alternative worth exploring.

Dependability of BMTC in question

26 March 2008 - 10:58pm — murali772

Within the same week, there have been two instances of BMTC buses being involved in serious crashes, supposedly due to 'brake failure'. In one, the conductor died, even as many were injured, and quite seriously too, in both.

Slum re-development under JNNURM

25 March 2008 - 4:42am — tsubba

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