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BMTC's vertical integration

Ashok said the BMTC had proposed to build a hotel near Bangalore International Airport and also a bus terminus to provide facilities to the passengers who arrive late in the night.

Bangalore's hall of shame - 3rd class treatment for Bus commuters @ Marathahalli

Sometime ago, we discussed Bangalore hall of shame locations, and Marathahalli Outer Ring Road junction. After one round of work to 'improve' pavements where in they basically widened the roads connecting Outer Ring road and Varthur Road, and installed barricades to prevent pedestrian spill over, this junction has been left as it is.

Solid waste to energy - BBMP's first plant ready?

Noticed an interesting tender from BBMP last week. It calls for:

Request for proposal (RFP) for Development and Operation of facility for conversion of mixed Municipal Waste Plastics to Fuel – 10TPD Capacity on (BOT) basis.

Bus # 333 Andheri - Mahakali during peak hours - A suggestion‏

I have been a regular office goer and hence would like to bring to your notice the difficulty faced going to office from Sai baba Bus stop to Agarkar Chowk after 8.30 am in the morning and then coming back from office after 7.00 pm in the evening  from Agarkar chowk.
 

18 multi-level car parking facilities to come up in City

The BBMP has now added eight more locations to the 10 it had proposed earlier, to develop a total of 18 new multi-level car parking facilities.  

 

Cycle parking bays

I came across a great initiative by some of the Praja members, to help promote cycling in the city. In addition to designing cycling lanes and stations at metro, it will be great idea to identify parking bays in CBD and other places in Bangalore to securely store our bikes.

BBMP and audits - Sad state of governance in Bangalore

While Anna Hazare’s campaign against rampant corruption in the country as a whole is heading towards a showdown, the following local news underlines the genuineness of the people’s movement.

FM Station for Bangalore Traffic/Weather/Other Alerts

I have put forward the idea in facebook as follows. Let me know what you think? I will do the job of cross-posting your thoughts in facebook, in case if you dont have facebook account.

Content from facebook:

Visit to Capital Bikeshare in Washington DC!

On Monday June 13th, myself along with a journalist friend M A Siraj paid a visit to one of the 'Capital Bikeshare's station in Washington DC located at Dupont Circle.

http://www.capitalbikeshare.com/

We cant Merge!

Bangalore has been hit by the merge blues. more than 70% of the so called Jams can be associated to merge, various types of merge. We create a merge out of left & right turns when we should wait for traffc to clear, we even create a merge in a roundabout when we should yeilding. We even create a merge at traffic lights when we should be standing in our lanes waiting for our turn.

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