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Monorail's Ups & downs

6 March 2009 - 7:41pm — Naveen

Monorails or for that matter most of the mass-transits have not been churning out profits. Japan is the only unique exception due to their much higher standards of living & people's higher affordability levels to pay fares. Thus monorails have been profitable there. In fact, monorail makers have been forced to cut manufacturing costs for systems & are offering to install & run their systems as there had been no takers. Some examples :

Enforcers / Violators?

6 March 2009 - 5:39pm — Ravi_D

Last evening’s drive home was interesting.

Metro - coverage comparision with some cities

6 March 2009 - 1:37am — idontspam

Here is a simple comparison of the coverage various metros in the world provide and where we should be going. It is important to be developing a network that covers more areas and enables last mile connectivity and feeder services to be more effective.

Tried office commute using Big10 - a report

5 March 2009 - 5:11pm — silkboard

Big10 inside 28.22 am - Wife dropped me at the main road outside our complex, a Big 10 was waiting right then and there. Even better, the driver stopped for me to save me a 50 m walk till the bus stand. Good or bad, I wonder, but I did say thanks to him.

Electric Supply - A Chronicle

5 March 2009 - 2:28pm — Ravi_D

Here is an attempt to chronicle media reports related to our electric supply scenario. Let us update this list as we see related articles in the media.

2008:

19/July/08 - DH: Power crisis may worsen

Indian Rly lacks proper sanitation: PAC report

4 March 2009 - 10:12pm — idontspam

Rodents in coaches, unusable toilets, unclean platforms and trains, no drinking water, poor sanitary conditions and dirty kitchens.

Good response to Karnataka's Mega PPP on Roads

4 March 2009 - 8:12am — silkboard

In this round-up report today ("States pip NHAI in PPP road projects"), Biz-standard reporter Anirban Chowdhury has updates on Karnataka's mega PPP initiative to improve state's highways.

Namma Auto - traffic awareness project

3 March 2009 - 11:25pm — silkboard

Project to spread better driving behavior via education and constructive engagement with Autorickshaw drivers.

Key contacts

BMTC - tracking and interaction

3 March 2009 - 10:51pm — silkboard

[Update: Sep 09: The project has been moved to the new system - BMTC engagement project. We will use this book to organize information we dig out from BMTC at one place]

Lokayukta RTIs

3 March 2009 - 10:41pm — silkboard

This project wants to get a regular interaction going between Praja members and the office of Lokayukta. The goal of this project is to get information for Lokayukta at regular intervals to help us



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