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NH7 to BIAL - A sea change

s_yajaman - 4-JUN-2009

I have been traveling on the NH7 to BIAL for the past 1 year and decided to make this post on how my experience has changed since May 2008.  It is also a tribute to the Bangalore Traffic Police's efforts to make the commute a safer one.  We often have nothing but the harshest words for our bureaucrats (and I am no exception), but we need to give them their due when they do a good job

Vehicle registration rate dips in Bengaluru

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 15-MAY-2009

 

Media has reported that during the last six months number of vehicles being added to the city roads has come down drastically -

Father looses son to road hump..

srinidhi - 11-MAY-2009

..Having lost his son to a speed breaker, he made it his mission to save the lives of others and now has been successful in making the local administration in Bangalore work for the marking of road humps...

Empowering BMLTA

murali772 - 9-MAY-2009

In the case of Bangalore, the BMLTA has been instituted, though it is still in the form of a sub-committee of another Committee, as averred by none less than Mr Ravindra, Dy Chairman, State Planning Commission, himself, at the seminar. There is a proposal to strengthen and broad-base it.

"Road Dividers" or "Walls"?

ssnkumar - 7-MAY-2009

Dear Sir,

     Recently most of the important roads of Bangalore have been made double roads.
     As part of that, "Road Dividers" have been placed in the middle of roads, so that the traffic gets streamlined.
     This is a welcome move and helps.

Sustainable transport meeting today 5 PM

das - 7-MAY-2009

Hi,

SC grants three months to implement high security registration plates

murali772 - 6-MAY-2009

Supreme Court on Tuesday set a three-month deadline for the Centre and the state governments to implement high security registration plates (HSRPs), removing all ambiguity about the mandatory nature of its earlier order on the issue.

Traffic Signal Modeling - Sharing a Case Study

Ravi_D - 6-MAY-2009

Attached is an interesting case study for geeky types on Praja, related to modeling and optimization of Traffic Signal Syncronization in Bangalore.

Forced pedestrianization! An opportunity.

Ravi_D - 6-MAY-2009

Brigade road is going to be closed for vehicular traffic for 10 days, per this DH report.

Analyzing Traffic Police's spot fine system

silkboard - 5-MAY-2009

I am told that developed countries do not have this system of spot fines. We do - and I guess that low levels of automation would be one reason we have this in place - sub-inspector or above can issue challans and levy spot fines.