Mysterious series of BBMP ads on a DLF complex

murali772 - 19-MAY-2009

On 26th April, DLF homes published    this   full page ad in Times of India (I expect in other papers also) announcing the launch of their new project "Westend Heights".

Revamp of the Bangalore civic body.

psaram42 - 11-MAY-2009

 Recently we discussed about high dividers and roads being made “Double roads” in a forum. The truth is that, the roads are two way traffic roads by default, to start with. Normally two way roads are made one way to take care of increased traffic density. There is sometime a need to iterate to satisfy the public demands.

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...

LDA is back - Madivala lake and others

silkboard - 11-MAY-2009

Who is actually responsible for upkeep of Bangalore's lakes? Answer may go like this - some lakes LDA, rest of them BWSSB. Refer late last year's news articles - lakes were transferred from LDA to BWSSB. But this was done only for some (17 or 18) lakes. To remind us all that they are around, LDA has floated work for rejuvenating 3 lakes.

Digging of roads and improper patch up

cajalal - 7-MAY-2009

The roads in Whitefield-ITPL area were in reasonably good condition after the last asphalting and periodic maintenance works. However the good conditioned roads were spoiled by the pits digged (and left without properly filling/repairing) for laying pipe conduits (for fiber cable ?) underground.

BBMP elections, Outer ring road and Flyovers Underpasses

Public Agenda - 6-MAY-2009

It seems the Rs 300 crs needed for 10 underpasses to raise money for which GoK formed a Land corp (sell encroached recovered Govt lands and was unsuccessful) in Oct 2008 has suddenly become 450 crs now to be used for 8 flyovers.

BBMP elections 2009 and Bureaucratic Accountability

Public Agenda - 3-MAY-2009

The report linked below 

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/May32009/city20090503133950.asp

Doctor saves two 200+ yr old uprooted trees...

Ravi_D - 29-APR-2009

Cardiologist Dr Ramana Rao spent around a lakh to save two 200yr plus old peepal trees uprooted on Tumkur Road.

See this report in DH: Doctor Injects life into trees.

Bangalore pedestrianization projects

das - 27-APR-2009

Project to push for pedestrianization of some popular stretches of roads in shopping districts of Bengaluru.

Pedestrian Voice - A joint campaign by Swabhimana and Praja

s_yajaman - 24-APR-2009

SWABHIMANA  and  PRAJA  are planning to bring together citizens ,stake holders and elected representatives on a common platform to discuss pedestrian related problems in different areas of Bengaluru