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Bengaluru: Traffic congestion

7 February 2009 - 11:47pm — idontspam

1. Overview

2. History

3. Data

4. Solutions

5. Examples

6. References

Bangalore - Governance Reforms

6 February 2009 - 9:44am — silkboard

Growth pains of Bangalore lead to demands for urban governance reforms to bring more local participation and autonomy to the urban area referred to as the Bangalore Metropolitan Region. Expanding BMP to Bruhat BMP via bringing adjoining CMCs within the fold of this Bangalore MEtropolitan Region was the first step.

Better toll collection method - BMIC Peripheral Road

6 February 2009 - 8:20am — s_yajaman

Here is a suggestion for Mr.Kheny on toll collection on the BMIC Peripheral Road.  His current method can be improved quite a bit to ensure that the main expressway has free moving traffic (this is an access controlled Expressway and ought to be signal free).

ABIDe's Bengaluru Governance Act: Basics getting in place?

6 February 2009 - 1:43am — idontspam

ABIDe ... has stressed on creation of a structure that would become the local planning authority for the city and the metropolitan region. Besides this ABIDe’s focus of citizen centric governance has been further enhanced by the proposal of a comprehensive development and co-ordinated execution of developmental projects. See: ABIDe presents Governance Bill

User Experience Design Proposal for Praja

5 February 2009 - 10:50pm — rahulkjha

 

Praja is an excellent initiative and has made quite an impact already. However, I think the user experience is a little lacking in terms of navigability and organization. These are my views on an alternative structure for the website.

"Signal free" Hosur Road: opportunity or nightmare?

5 February 2009 - 12:05pm — Transmogrifier

Just caught this in the news; BBMP's plans to convert Hosur road to a Bellary road like "signal free" stretch (read more here).

This is another series of traffic engineering nightmares just waiting to happen (narrow underpasses, plain bad design, non-existent pedestrian infrastructure). Ironically, they actually have cited Bellary Road as the model to emulate. There must be some way to get in on this and at least attempt to get things done more holistically. RTI the design plans? Another meet with BBMP? Two things that I could immediately think of:

External Links (related work)

4 February 2009 - 10:07am — Ravi_D

This consolidation is a set of links to related work available on the web.

> Two PowerPoint presentations by Das GV on AuthorStream:

Meeting near KR Puram bridge (Feb 7)

3 February 2009 - 3:10pm — silkboard

ORR KR Puram 4One suggestion from Safe Passage folks (CKannan, psaram, sheragu) was to organize a street event at the spot. Lets try it this Saturday (Feb 7, 10 AM). This isn't a protest - no holding-placards or slogan shouting type of stuff. Lets do some street photography, scan the area for all possible violations of (IRC) road building, design, signage standards, discuss solutions on the spot.

Improving Road Safety - Fiji Experiment

3 February 2009 - 9:39am — Ravi_D

Happened to come across this PDF on worldbank website. Read item (b) - Fiji.

Interesting.... 10% of the third party insurance premium goes to Fiji National Road Safety Council (NRSC). Benfits both insurance companies and the population.

Metro Phase 1 extension approved

3 February 2009 - 12:23am — swamy

Noticed one Bangalore Metro news - phase one extension was approved. From Deccan Herald:



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