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Namma Railu Round Table - Minutes of the meeting Naveen - 30-AUG-2010
Praja thanks all participants for making it to the meeting & sharing their opinions. Special thanks to Prof.Sitharam (Chairman, CiSTUP) & staff of CiSTUP for their hospitality & for graciously hosting the event. |
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Naveen - 21-AUG-2010
The meeting was delayed & began only at 4.40PM since BMRC officials were busy till then. Flwg items discussed & status advised by BMRC : 1) BMTC feeder services will be operated upon commissioning of Metro for 3km distances from all stations. Ticketing will be made common for feeder buses & Metro. Smart cards with online recharge facilities will be made available. |
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Naveen - 18-AUG-2010
Some of us at Praja are planning to go meet Metro officials this Friday, 20th/August. Those interested to join in may leave a note here. We will not be able to take more than 5 people along, so please respond soonest since we have to resort to 'first come first serve' basis & give priority to more senior praja members. |
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Namma Railu Meetup, on the Hosur Train idontspam - 28-JUL-2010
Agenda: Update on commuter rail event and preparations. Preview of Report we have prepared. Venue: YH1 Commuter train Date: Saturday, 31 July |
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Commuter Rail meeting with CiSTUP, went well, summary silkboard - 15-JUL-2010
Sanjeev, IDS, PS Anantharam sir and myself went over to IISc today to meet head of CiSTUP. Short summary on how it went
We are thinking end of August for this Commuter Rail / Namma Railu seminar. Keep watching for mroe updates, or join in if you want to help organize this. A hard copy of the report is available now, contact IDS or anyone from the Namma Railu project team if you want to see it. Wll upload the soft copy here as well as part of work for this seminar at CiSTUP. Lets go Namma Railu :) |
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No response from Mr Madhu's office silkboard - 9-JUL-2010
Want to share with all that I have tried several times to contact Mr Madhu for a meeting to share our now-ready CRS report with him. Have sent emails to his, and his PA's office, at least 5 emails. Have made at least 3 calls to his office as well. The person at other end, on one occasion, carried a chit for him while he was in the middle of a meeting.
He just got additional responsibilities, so its likely that he is busy with increased work load. We will try reach him again this week, email as well as phone, and in case there is no response yet again, we will assume that he didn't really expect us to complete it when he suggested that we prepare a written report. |
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Metro Rail too much to handle - Can we leapfrog... cvikash - 5-SEP-2007Where as the need of a high capacity transit system for our cities is beyond any doubt,at a cost of Rs. 16000 crores for about 33 kms., as it stands on this day and further escalation anticipated, Bangalore Metro looks pretty expensive. Can Bangalore leapfrog into a next generation public transport system ? The answer today is a resounding "YES". |
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Report - Bangalore local train ride & meet silkboard - 9-MAY-2010
Ah! Ufff!. What an eye opener. Easily the best Praja meeting of all. I am so lost for words here. So would be IDS, Murali, Naveen and Manjari you bet. Otherwise, we would have logged in our reports yesterday itself. |
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Ravi_D - 7-APR-2010
These meetings haven't been as regular of late. How about reviving our second Saturday early am meeting tradition? Pls leave a note here if you wish to attend. All are welcome. Agenda: Discuss projects (Ongoing & Planned) & other Praja activities. Feel free to stay back for an open forum right after. Venue: Open to your suggestions. My office has moved out of Cunningham road; I can host it in my current location @ BTM Layout instead. |
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JP (Jayaprakash Narayan) of Lok Satta - public event in Bangalore sanjayv - 4-APR-2010
The president of Lok Satta party will be in Bangalore on Tuesday and will hold a Public Interaction. VENUE-----------ROTARY HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP, NEXT TO HOTEL RAMA Interested folks are welcome. |
Some of us took half day leaves from our work to meet him that day. We started on this report after our meeting with him, where during the meeting, he asked us to come back with a report summarizing our thoughts and suggestions. Now that the report is ready, and people have spent serious time putting it together, its only fair to expect him to at least accept the report.