Fuel Subsidies, Road user fee - Common sense prevails, At Last

Naveen - 22-DEC-2011

Some positive developments - long overdue, though not very comforting for the car-dependent public in bangalore. Following are excerpts from an on-line headline news portal :

Highway Safety in India

Vasanth - 21-DEC-2011

I was recently driving on the NICE Road between PES College to Somapura Intersection. My car was the only car and I was cruising at around 90kph. While I was nearing the intersection climbing an uphill unable to see what is there on the otherside of the road after it flattens, suddenly I saw 6-7 people standing in the middle of the road which they are not supposed to be since it is a freeway.

Drunk drivers of Bengaluru = 4 Crore worth black money?

silkboard - 17-DEC-2011

Now that I have had 10 second hand reports on this, its time to do some math on the black money generated by drunken drivers of Bangalore. I am yet to experience this first hand (hope never to), those who have, say that they pay anywhere from Rs 1500 - 2500 in all after they get booked for drunken driving.

birth of a footpath

bialterminal - 17-DEC-2011

I had the privilege of watching the construction of a footpath in Southern California recently and capture some images over the few days the construction was in progress. I had always wondered how these good quality footpaths were constructed.

Dangerous Hospitals this time

psaram42 - 12-DEC-2011

Recently a fire tragedy killed many patients at a Kolkata hospital. The trusties of the hospital were arrested.

Autorickshaw - Case for a decent service and good business model!

kbsyed61 - 10-DEC-2011

Background

Mere mention of word 'Auto' starts ringing the bell of many different voice. Don't these voices sound familiar?

Code of conduct for Social Networks

psaram42 - 7-DEC-2011

There is nothing wrong in expecting a code of conduct when people talk in public gatherings or express their views on social web sites. There is no doubt about the need for a code of conduct. I think there is one in the Praja site. This site has a set of rules.

Transparency and e Governance

psaram42 - 30-NOV-2011

Paper less society and Bangalore

psaram42 - 21-NOV-2011

The difference between a book and the pen drive device carrying the book is that you require a computer to read it with no guaranty of authenticity. Governance is an important issue to depend entirely on fragile computer devices.. Governance is a serious issue which can at the best be supplemented by computer technology.

Shaping Bangalore's periphery - before its too late

silkboard - 20-NOV-2011

Our city, Bengaluru has a core, and periphery. Let us define the area bound between  Outer Ring Road as the core, and beyond as periphery. If you look back from nineties onwards, City planners cared for people to live in the core, and work in the periphery.