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srinidhi - 25-AUG-2018
It is very understandable that people from our city stand up against every sort of development plans which involves cutting of trees. The city has witnessed ruthless cutting of trees in the recent years. Be it highways redevelopment, metro works etc have all taken a toll on trees.
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Pod Taxi kills a metro route.. srinidhi - 9-JUL-2018
The 'new' budget that the CM presented recently has tried to make way for the weird Pod Taxi project which was proposed by the earlier government.The route picked for the conceptual PRT system is starting from Trinity circle(MG rd) and heading towards HAL aiport road. |
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murali772 - 8-JUN-2018
Question 1
Humaradesh, a state in India, has been suffering from political violence (by state as well as non-state actors) for over 50 years.
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White topping - projected panacea? srinidhi - 6-MAR-2018
Call it election frenzy or a plan being put in place to 'address' major public woe of having a city with bad roads, the govt is in a frenzy to white top major roads in the city. |
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MaheshK - 5-NOV-2017
As we know that the air pollution issues for the city is gaining attention. Yes, there is pollution and we should not deny it. What I have seen so far is many individuals are doing work on air quality issues without any knowledge or background. Thanks to Google, they spend an hour reading about air pollution and they have become experts. There was a time when solid waste was a buzzword. |
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Multi Modal Integration : Metro, Railways, BMTC & Foot paths Sanjeev - 17-SEP-2017
As we have seen Ph-1 of Metro open to public without any consideration for multimodal integration, other end slowly suburban rail taking traction, People are using over crowded Metro with poor integration to change over from one mode of publci transport system to other. Even we do not have single mobility card for Bangalore urban transport. |
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Double Decker Mayhem on RV rd - EC metro route srinidhi - 12-AUG-2017
Bangalore has borne the brunt of bad engineering when it comes to road works. Thousands of crores are being spent mindlessly on projects with no actual value. The flyovers projects are the worst of the implementations, there are very few bridges which have proved their worth. A recent report on that can be seen here: |
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srinidhi - 16-JUL-2017
FInally BMRCL has published the UG route with station details of the new red line coming up between Gotigere and Nagavara. THe line goes UG at Dairy circle and has 12 stations on that stretch. The details are at the link below which was published recently |
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DIG (Prisons) Smt D Roopa, IPS, my latest nominee for Namma Begaluru award murali772 - 14-JUL-2017
Excerpts from a ToI report:
DG (Prisons) HN Sathyanarayana Rao - "What she is saying is not a new discovery".
DIG (Prisons) Smt D Roopa - "He might say this is not a new discovery.
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Vasanth - 27-JUN-2017
Ever since the launch of Metro, especially after East West Purple line was fully implemented, Bengaluru is saying 'Metro, Metro'. BMTC commuters, office bus users and many car drivers have switched over to Metro. Ridership has already touched 1.8 Lakhs on purple line. |