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(The mayor) told officials and residents of his city that "it's not that complex. We can be doing a lot more of this and in a quicker way if you adopt and embrace this proposal.We are counting on all of you. If we're successful here...if the community all agrees that this works...

Summary: Do we have any other choices other than Metro? Are we trying to hide our deficiencies and closed our eyes to all the improvements? How good metro projections are? All these questions are very critical and crucial before we consider Metro project?

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Do we have any other choices other than Metro? 

Cycle time data for various traffic signals in Bangalore by police station jurisdiction

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Summary: This article tries to analyse Metro project and expectation from it. If they are reasonable? Also have the people who decided for metro really considered existing system's potential and limitation correctly? If yes than what was cost and efficiency prompted them for alternative. Its a hard to answer but it will be true reality check for metro.

Refer Indian Express story - Helpless Desk

Here is a classic case of good intentions wrongly implemented.

The intention

This isn't to scare anyone. Website will stay operational, with minimal impact, but just wanted to announce that we plan to work on some long pending tech issues (navigation, projects, gyan etc) during December.

Dear Friends,
 
As no more comments are forthcoming on the issues, let me try to answer all the queries raised.

 “There’s some hope for Bangalore. For long, we’ve cursed the lack of coordination between civic agencies as they went about their work.