May 2009

9th May 'interaction' with Metro - who were "they"?

12 May 2009 - 10:03am — silkboard

There are reports around about how the 9th May interaction between Metro and Laxman Rau Park and Lalbagh lovers (fronted by Hasiru Usiru) turned 'ugly'. After reading enough on HU mailing list, and hearing a first hand account of the event, I learn that some "special" people were brought (by whom?) to project the other ("we love Metro") view.

Father looses son to road hump..

11 May 2009 - 1:05pm — srinidhi

..Having lost his son to a speed breaker, he made it his mission to save the lives of others and now has been successful in making the local administration in Bangalore work for the marking of road humps...

BMTC - Stats and Full Picture

11 May 2009 - 5:47pm — Vasanthkumar My...

[Forked off from this thread] You asked for it Sir. Here they are:

LDA is back - Madivala lake and others

11 May 2009 - 8:13am — silkboard

Who is actually responsible for upkeep of Bangalore's lakes? Answer may go like this - some lakes LDA, rest of them BWSSB. Refer late last year's news articles - lakes were transferred from LDA to BWSSB. But this was done only for some (17 or 18) lakes. To remind us all that they are around, LDA has floated work for rejuvenating 3 lakes.

Revamp of the Bangalore civic body.

11 May 2009 - 5:28pm — psaram42

Recently we discussed about high dividers and roads being made “Double roads” in a forum. The truth is that, the roads are two way traffic roads by default, to start with. Normally two way roads are made one way to take care of increased traffic density. There is sometime a need to iterate to satisfy the public demands.