February 2012

Business Improvement District

17 February 2012 - 12:05pm — idontspam

A BID is a time-limited, flexible funding mechanism to improve and manage a clearly defined commercial area. As a governance mechanism, BIDs are contractual partnerships for urban realm management through which some rights over the management of a locality are transferred from to the local government to ratepayers.

Elevated 'through' corridor concept - a "plus" inside Outer Ring Road

8 February 2012 - 10:31am — silkboard

Talking of vehicle movements, one need not addressed very well yet inside Bangalore city is separation of long-distance movements with local movements. One way this might be getting done today for goods movement is by routing their city entry from the point nearest to destination on Outer Ring Road.

How do you go to your local shopping area?

8 February 2012 - 10:47am

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LAMP for a suburban area - starter list

6 February 2012 - 8:45am — silkboard

LAMP concept may be essential very soon in all suburban areas to deal with traffic growth & work over disappointing efforts on multi-modal integration so far. Here is a starter list compiled by Naveen based on our discussions, Sanjeev's notes in multi-modal integration, and mantri mall study done by researchers at CiSTUP.

Minibus that BMTC needs for local shuttles?

6 February 2012 - 9:38am — silkboard

Some of us think that operating local shuttles as the last mile / local connect option will help bring more people from deeper areas to the trunk routes, and thus make public transport better. However, BMTC folks don't find local shuttles to be viable. One reason given for un-viability is minibus design.