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Christ College Bus Stop Nightmares at Dairy Circle sunrise - 30-MAR-2010
Christ college bus stop immediately after Nandini dairy is becoming a hell day by day. Narrow road, with two lanes (will say single lane after getting congested) fully occupied by autos and private buses stops happily for hours, on top of that BMTC buses will stop next to next on road, they will drive on competition basis giving night mares to the people driving behind. There is no signal and if you see at the peak times, you will see the traffic jam up to dairy circle, with minimum of 200-300 vehicles got struck behind these mangoos arrogant drivers. And to cross just that bus stop will take 10-15mins in peak time. What a great planning of Brurth Bangalore Mahanaga Palike (will say exactly as bakwaasss for bruhath). What a thought of these officials, should give the award of most complicated officials on earth. Their minds will work like mercury for money, not for the future of citizens and their comfort. And these guys should mind that they are also victims of the same? On narrow roads, making bus stops, no planning for bus stops, did these planning guys have minds, how to implement bus stops. What a pathetic stage we are in? |
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BMTC Issues - From RCA perspective - 3 Bheema.Upadhyaya - 30-MAR-2010
Few of the points mentioned in the survey (in second set) is about bus stands/stops. 1) Dirty and sad bus stands, do not like waiting there 2) Very hard to walk to and from the Bus Stands
Effect : Do not like waiting there.Causes: 1) No adequate shelter(sad bus stands) - Damaged roofing - No roofing 2) Poor furniture - Demolishing in progress - Repair - Damaged or vandalized - Unclean and not usable - Sharp edges or broken edges - Very old - No disabled friendly furnitures/path
3) Not Clean due to - Spitting (Pan and simple) |
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Bangalore Water Index Kickoff Meeting Neha_Dar - 30-MAR-2010
A few of us are meeting on Saturday to kick off and plan the water index project. Details as follows: Date: Saturday, 3rd April Time: 11:00 am Venue: Alliance Francaise Agenda: Scope of index. Best representation. Parameters to be tracked. Information sources. Partners. Next steps. Interested Praja members are welcome to join. P.S.: You can read about the water index idea here. |
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New Mini Bus Terminal at Byappanahalli on Old Madras Road. Sanjeev - 30-MAR-2010
The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has begun inter-State operations at a new mini bus terminal at Baiyappanahalli on Old Madras Road. According to K A Rajkumar, Director (Operations), the State-run corporation has constructed a small facility near the old NGEFactory, on a trial basis. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/61031/ksrtc-terminal-baiyappanahalli.html Poor publicity by KSRTC may be due to BBMP election. Now they should give good advertisment about this. |
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silkboard - 29-MAR-2010
Continuing from the mention of two clear asks post BBMP elections, here is a regional governance reform proposal being prepared by Abide. The close to final draft of Bangalore Metropolitan Regional governance act is attached. Here are some mention worthy points. Detailed review will be very much appreciated by those who may be looking for them. Talk sense and less-rhetoric as much as possible please. |
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Elections over, time for Regional bill, and State Finance Commission silkboard - 29-MAR-2010
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murali772 - 29-MAR-2010
The poor turnout in the posh areas of the city and the general voter apathy was cause enough for several politicians to spit fire at Bangalore, and to hint that if people did not turn out to vote they had no right to criticise the ruling class. For the full report in the New Indian Express, click here |
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Bangalore and Ribbon Development silkboard - 30-DEC-2008
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BBMP Elections - Who could be in the driver’s seat? psaram42 - 28-MAR-2010
When there is a low turn out the party in power looses. So BJP may be facing the music. This is the conclusion of the TV News-9 program that had in the days evening live. This was done by “CVOTER” for the TV-9 channel. Mr. Prakash, Narayan swamy of JDS BJP and Cong were in the debate along with two more participants, whose name I could not get. Out of 229 seats the magic number to win is 150. The forecast is
So is it that Operation Lotus part II will be enacted? The exit polls gave the following result. Politics |
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Separate lanes for emergency service vehicles nityashree - 28-MAR-2010
Often do we hear a screaming ambulance held up in traffic signals of some busy roads such as K.H. Road or Mallya Road that also lead to important hospitals (Nimhans or Mallya hospitals). I really wonder if any of these ambulances make it on time? I dont know whether the traffic police are informed by the policemen at the previous signals or the time that the cops have to clear the traffic for the ambulance is too short?! I'm sure that they don't do it on purpose, but the strategy of handling this situation must be surely wrong! and we turnout to be helpless onlookers... So, I think that it would be more sensible to have separate emergency lanes (similar to the existing auto lanes-that I feel are not very important though...) for ambulances and fire-brigades at least on highly congested roads leading to important hospitals... The very thought of having our dear one in one of the ambulances that will fail to make on time to the hospital is so horrifying that this is the time to bring in the change. With best regards, Nityashree |
Good riddance. With the local election drama over, it is time to focus on things that will really empower a local government for Bangalore. And they are?