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Old madras road and Whitefield Road connectivity becomes reality madhu sudhan - 6-JUL-2012
On 12-7-2012, Foundation stone laying ceremony will take place at the Outer Ring Road- Whitefield Road Junction for the construction of a underpass next cave bridge. Shri. Ashok, Hon'ble Minister for Home & Transport, Government of Karnataka, Shri. Nandish Reddy, M.L.A., K.R.Puram, Smt. |
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Connect Old Madras Road and Whitefield Road Campiagn madhu sudhan - 9-JUN-2012
The waiting is over !!!. We had waited enough for the Railways and BBMP to bridge the gap between Whitefield Road and Old Madras Road and ease the life of thousands of techies, school children, students, women and people in general who have to shuttle between these roads everyday to meet their needs. |
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Bus stand locations, easy walking for bus change @ Marathahalli silkboard - 2-MAY-2012
We have been making very slow progress on putting together this LAMP. Why not do an ideation exercise as part of the project online. For the LAMP, we talked of working on designated entry points to the local area, as in Whitefield. Take Marathahalli. |
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Cracks showing on Kadugodi overbridge Sanjeev - 8-MAR-2012
The railway overbridge at Kadugodi junction in Whitefield was to have been completed in 15 months but it took almost four years. One would have expected that extra time to have been translated into better quality. But motorists travelling on the 640-metre bridge have a different story. |
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Hoarding menace - BBMP's helplessness? silkboard - 5-MAR-2012
Recently, before leaving the city, an expat left behind this 'hoarding' as his thank you note to Bengaluru. Humorous indeed, but to us and BBMP, this should be a hurtful mockery of the way things are out of control on our roads.
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LAMP for a suburban area - starter list silkboard - 6-FEB-2012
LAMP concept may be essential very soon in all suburban areas to deal with traffic growth & work over disappointing efforts on multi-modal integration so far. Here is a starter list compiled by Naveen based on our discussions, Sanjeev's notes in multi-modal integration, and mantri mall study done by researchers at CiSTUP.
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Whitefield Local Area Mobility Plan (LAMP) silkboard - 6-FEB-2012
So far, all mobility planning in Metropolitan area of Bangalore happens with central city in mind. However, Bengaluru's future is mostly in the hands of its suburban areas and satellite towns. Planning for mobility for a suburban area has a few different angles to it. There are few clear categories of needs, Examples of these, in Whitefield/Mahadevapura context |
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Mobility planning for Whitefield area - lets make it happen silkboard - 28-AUG-2011
This is for the residents/commuters of Whitefield / Mahadevapura area. We have discussed connectivity problems of the area in detail. Through few Praja-RAAG projects and initiatives from more readers, we have also detailed solution concepts that can be applied around Bengaluru (Cycling, Last Mile, Bus Priority System, Commuter Rail System, more). |
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Unnecessary Traffic Jams at Graphite India Jn Mithun Kumar - 12-AUG-2011
Hi All, I'm one of the regular commuters who has to cross the infamous and extremely narrow Graphite India traffic junction at EPIP, Whitefield for more than 7 years now. Ofcourse the number of companies have multiplied in EPIP, for which this is the Only entry point for 90% of the commuters who come from the city. Rest 10% come from the other side of the road, i.e. the ITPL side. |
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Choked connectivity to Whitefield - solutions? silkboard - 14-JUL-2011
If you look back, or go ask city agencies, they would say that a lot has been done to improve connectivity to Whitefield. A six-lane railway overbridge at Marathahalli, 2006. A prominent Big-10 service (G-1), 2010. A once-every-5-minutes air conditioned bus service (335E), 2009. Road improvements (Varthur Road, Mahadevapura main road), since 2003. |
