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Pedestrian facility in Bangalore : May be worst in Indian Metros

Look at how we want Public Transport either motorized or non motorized in Bangalore.  Excpt the BMTC bus facility,  Public Transport in case of Commuter Rail, Metro, Cycling and now Pedestrian facility,  Bangaloe is doing very bad inspite of  having spent huge money in 1000 crore to buy high end Buses for BMTC & costruct TTMC's

Water - its going to be pretty serious this summer

We are probably going to see a severe water shortage from mid April onwards. The word going around is that this won't be a routine shortage that we are used to over last few years. May get pretty serious.

Daksh - Citizen Matters - State of the the City survey

It's time for our legislators to face their constituents. Tell us what you think about your elected reps!  

Rating them would be the first step to getting accountable leaders. Click here

Mobilicity - CiSTUP Foundation Day event on March 6, 2013 - my report

Prof J Satya Saikumar started the event by inviting Prof TG Sitaram and Smt V Manjula to the Dias. Smt Manjula 1987 IAS batch is currently the Commissioner at DULT.

Enough of Volvos - Use JnNURM Fund Rs.14,883 crores for sustainable, affordable transport facility

/JnNURM funds for providing sustainable, economical and comfortable public transport have been used for construction of huge multi-storeyed buildings in the name of Traffic and Transport Management Centers/

/GPS/GIS systems installed are either not working or are found to be wasteful expenditure/

Bus really stops at the stop with this!

Really interesting technology to get the bus stop at a stop..

Sunday morning Praja Breakfast ride

10 Mar 2013 07:30
Asia/Calcutta

Calling all Praja folks to ride their bicycles into town. Half a dozen folks are meeting already for a healthy ride & subsequent breakfast, throwing this event open to all Praja folks. Good opportunity to catch up & initiate new things to do.

Where: Cubbon Park (opposite UB CIty)

When: Every Sunday 7:30AM

Commuter Rail - Match Fixing

We are now past all the Budgets and big-bang announcements from both State and Central Govt. Time for some close up analysis of all these unfortunate annual Tamshas. It is clear by now that, in the GOK state budget, Railway Budgets and the latest Union Budget, there was remotely any hint of support to commuter rail service proposal.

Proposal to reduce petroleum consumption country-wide

Would it make sense for Praja to spearhead a proposal to fix the country's fiscal and current account deficit problems by moving to less fuel-intensive modes of transportation country-wide ? Taken to the central govt., RBI, economic think tanks, etc.

Calling Cyclists!!! Planners cant see you...

Cycle related discussions on BTP TAC committee mailing list... (read bottom up since its an email thread)


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