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"Ride Bicycle Save Life Cycle"

19 July 2008 - 6:52pm — silkboard
27 Jul 2008 06:00
27 Jul 2008 09:00
Asia/Calcutta
"Ride Bicycle Save Life Cycle" initiative. From Lal Baugh to Cubbon Park. On 27th July 2008. Assemble by 6:30 am

More details at - http://www.itcyclers.com/index.htm

Karnataka Budget 2008-09 What Belgaum Gets

19 July 2008 - 6:21pm — belgaumblog
I have tried to include all the Allocations made for Belgaum only.

Infrastructure and Enterprise

Traffic & Transportation Policies and Strategies

18 July 2008 - 4:26pm — silkboard

Executive Summary of a Wilbur Smith study on Traffic & Transportation Policies and Strategies in Urban Areas in India is now available on the website of Ministry of Urban Development. The 20 page summary document makes a good reading.

Praja members would love the language, especially the terms like "slow moving vehicle index", "on-street parking interference index". Essentially, they have quantified stuff like "entropy", "edge friction", "turbulence" and "viscosity" that we often borrow and use here at Praja from thermo and fluid dynamics. Some equations for example:

HAL: invest before re-opening?

17 July 2008 - 6:08pm — silkboard

Just for a moment, forget those debates around whether HAL should re-open or not. Lets say a re-opening is coming (via court order, govt forcing its will, or whatever). Then, in the Praja spirit of positivity and high expectations(!), what would be the best ways of re-opening and operating this airport?

Bike rentals, a fashion in Paris

16 July 2008 - 2:15pm — GVK
In my schooldays in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, bicycles were the prime mode of transport for the middle-class. The affluent among my class-mates came to school in own bikes. My parents didn’t get me one till I joined college in New Delhi. By which time (this, in late 50s) bicycling went out of fashion.

With aggressive marketing of Luna, scooty, and other two-wheelers bicycles became a poor man’s vehicle. We, who considered ourselves better-off on the social scale, preferred the rush, long wait and uncertainty of public transport to a bicycle for travelling to work.

BBMP doing bus bays for BMTC - slow progress?

15 July 2008 - 6:09pm — silkboard

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Late last year (Nov 2007), we were told read about BMTC requesting BBMP for 140 bus bays. Refer this Nov 07 Hindu article:

The Traffic Engineering Cell (TEC) of the BBMP has ... invited tenders for 100 bus bays out of 140 proposed by the BMTC ... official of the cell told The Hindu that construction was likely to begin in a month and completed in three months.

"Bangalore is New to the Kannada Experience"

15 July 2008 - 5:54pm — tsubba

Girish Karnad on his new play: “Bangalore is new to the Kannada experience, therefore, even-though you will find a rich Kannada tradition in writing, theatre, cinema and poetry until very recently you will find very little writing on Bangalore. Stories on the life in Bangalore — the stories of Jayanagar, RT Nagar and Indranagar are but stories not found on paper. Hence, I decided to base parts of the play in Bangalore to explore the conundrum”.

Fuel Populism killing air traffic

14 July 2008 - 8:11pm — Devesh

Fuel populism killing air transportation

India, the world's largest democracy, has a sorry record in sound and bold economic administration. Populist measures abound, and nothing is sacred or immoral in the perpetual quest to obtain and then secure the "gaddi".

Fuel pricing in India is a prime example.

Public Transport on NICE Peripherial Road

14 July 2008 - 6:35pm — Vasanth

Now the government has cleared NICE project, peripheral road should be complete very soon and it will be clogged by Bangalore Cars + Trucks!!



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