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What Type Of City Do We Want?

27 August 2018 - 5:00pm — Naveen

Unmanageable traffic forever - Is that what we want in our City?

"Experience is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it again"

The proponents for elevated freeways planned to be built, cutting across the city claim the following benefits:

Rail Yatra - Yeshwantpur to Karmelam - August 31 @ 2:30 PM

26 August 2018 - 7:08am — kbsyed61

In this game of Ping-Pong between GOK and Railway Ministry, impelmentation of Suburban Rail Project in Bengaluru is almost like winning thousand mutinies. Every inch of progress made so far right from 2010 Round Table Event at CiSTUP is almost like a winning a mutiny and it is almost like a waging war at all times.

Trees and the city..

25 August 2018 - 5:33am — srinidhi

It is very understandable that people from our city stand up against every sort of development plans which involves cutting of trees. The city has witnessed ruthless cutting of trees in the recent years. Be it highways redevelopment, metro works etc have all taken a toll on trees.

Failed PPP's, and finally, a good model

5 August 2018 - 8:17am — murali772

With government-owned, and thereby incapacitated, "public utilities" (BESCOM, BMTC, BWSSB, etc in Bengaluru) unable to meet the burgeoning and varied demands of the fast-growing urban centres, the way out for managing them very clearly points to PPP's.

Pod Taxi kills a metro route..

9 July 2018 - 9:21am — srinidhi

The 'new' budget that the CM presented recently has tried to make way for the weird Pod Taxi project which was proposed by the earlier government.The route picked for the conceptual PRT system is starting from Trinity circle(MG rd) and heading towards HAL aiport road.

GCPP assignment - 1

8 June 2018 - 5:11pm — murali772

Question 1

Humaradesh, a state in India, has been suffering from political violence (by state as well as non-state actors) for over 50 years.

Metro Ph-1 Integration issues progressing slowly

6 May 2018 - 7:58am — Sanjeev

4 works connecting to B'lore Metro once completed will bring big relief &will increase metro ridership
1. FOB at BMTC Mejestic
2. Extending Platform at Baiyappanhalli for intercity train
3. Skywalk at City station
4. 3rd entry from Gubbi Tontadappa road

White topping - projected panacea?

6 March 2018 - 6:03am — srinidhi

Call it election frenzy or a plan being put in place to 'address' major public woe of having a city with bad roads, the govt is in a frenzy to white top major roads in the city.

FENCE BELLANDURU LAKE ALREADY!!!!

6 February 2018 - 1:49am — srinidhi

Bellanduru lake fires are becoming so common that there are jokes about it in the city and the NGT 'raps' the govt for not acting on the problem is becoming like what the SC gives every summer to the state govt over cauvery...NO ONE

If I were to be the Mayor of Bengaluru

6 December 2017 - 1:29pm — murali772

Citizen Matters recently invited essays from citizens on how they would go about things if they were to become the "Mayor of Bengaluru".

Air pollution issues

5 November 2017 - 12:12pm — MaheshK

As we know that the air pollution issues for the city is gaining attention. Yes, there is pollution and we should not deny it. What I have seen so far is many individuals are doing work on air quality issues without any knowledge or background. Thanks to Google, they spend an hour reading about air pollution and they have become experts. There was a time when solid waste was a buzzword.

BekuBedaSanthe

4 October 2017 - 11:19pm — murali772

The "Citizens for Bengaluru" is organising a "BekuBedaSanthe" on the 15th Oct, and the following is what I posted on their web-site as comprising my initial "wish-list" (The linked blog-posts provide more details.

Pedestrian issues

28 September 2017 - 12:33pm — murali772

An Indian Express reporter called to ask if I could write a 200 page note on pedestrian issues in the city, perhaps since I was part of the PRAJA team that had filed a PIL in this behalf in the High Court (check here, for more on that).

Multi Modal Integration : Metro, Railways, BMTC & Foot paths

17 September 2017 - 8:10pm — Sanjeev

As we have seen Ph-1 of Metro open to public without any consideration for multimodal integration, other end slowly suburban rail taking traction, People are using over crowded Metro with poor integration to change over from one mode of publci transport system to other.

Even we do not have single mobility card for Bangalore urban transport.

Double Decker Mayhem on RV rd - EC metro route

12 August 2017 - 4:23pm — srinidhi

Bangalore has borne the brunt of bad engineering when it comes to road works. Thousands of crores are being spent mindlessly on projects with no actual value. The flyovers projects are the worst of the implementations, there are very few bridges which have proved their worth. A recent report on that can be seen here:

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