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The "Native" Kolkata Metro

The 20km long Calcutta Metro Railway completes its 25 years next month, unwept, unhonoured and unsung. It has never had a derailment, no fatality or no structural collapses. It carries 4.2 lakh passengers a day that is three times of the Delhi Metro which is more than thrice as long. It is faster too.

Big10 concept - Circle Routes are here?

I have been seeing these new routes marked C-1 (for Circle 1 ?) for a few weeks now. Was waiting for some crisp annnouncement or press release, haven't noticed anything big yet, so posting.

Traffic police - "To police traffic" or "To make money from innocent citizens"?

I always follow traffic rules and also make sure that if I am pillion riding or sitting in car, the driver should also follow traffic rules. Today something happened to us which was not good -

Guangzhou – Many lessons for Bangalore

The third largest city in China, Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, is a city of about 8 million & is similar in population /size to Bangalore. It lies at a distance of a mere 2 hours (by road or rail) from Hong-Kong, in southern China.

Open Drains Versus Point of Source Infiltration

Open Drains
Point of Source Infiltration
C

The Pedestrian Crush

This is what Bangalore needs to learn as we move on.The reason it's so crowded here is not because there's not enough space, it's because we give all of our space to the least spatially-efficient form of transportation available.

Sustainable public transport system - high level requirements

This has been long pending in my mind after reading and contributing to various praja posts over almost a year. I took a stab at a document that analyzes the high level requirements of a integrated public transportation network for Bangalore that can ultimately cater to long term growth.

Wheeler Road Flyover - A Saga in mismanagement

Background of the project: Rail over bridge from wheeler road to banaswadi.  A joint project between BBMP and south western railways.

Bellandur Lake - Huge (Wet) Land filling in progress!

Road Side Land Fill example -1

Road Side Land Fill example -2

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