Posts : Bangalore

Open house with transport and infrastructure depts of GoK

Devesh - 12-MAY-2009

Dear Sir/Madam, 

We have pleasure in informing you that the Infrastructure Committee of the Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC) will organize an Open – House related to transport and infrastructure in Bangalore and Karnataka.

Mixed use misuse

idontspam - 12-MAY-2009

Take for example Kanakapura Road...Now suppose I want to cross the road at Yelachenahalli.

This is the whole crux of urban planning.

Skype Meeting w/ Mr Manivannan

silkboard - 12-MAY-2009

Wed, May 13, 9.30 PM.

9th May 'interaction' with Metro - who were "they"?

silkboard - 12-MAY-2009

There are reports around about how the 9th May interaction between Metro and Laxman Rau Park and Lalbagh lovers (fronted by Hasiru Usiru) turned 'ugly'. After reading enough on HU mailing list, and hearing a first hand account of the event, I learn that some "special" people were brought (by whom?) to project the other ("we love Metro") view.

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.

Monthly Praja Meet at Mr. Ravi's office in Cunningham Road

psaram42 - 10-MAY-2009

 The meeting was at Mr. Ravi’s Office which is at Cunningham road. It started at scheduled hour. The following were presnt:

Plan for ORR and marathalli junction

Subodh - 10-MAY-2009

Hi,

Does anyone know plan on how ORR - Marathalli junction will be made signal free ? I could not find any post in Praja regarding this.

Recently I noticed that ramp from ORR (when you from KR Puram) to Marathalli bridge is being widened to 4 lanes road (two lanes on each direction).

Regards,
Subodh

More government hospitals for the city???

murali772 - 9-MAY-2009

Amongst the several projects supposedly announced earlier, and proposed to be taken up now, are four government hospitals on the lines of Victoria and Bowring medicare institutes to be built on land to be identied by BDA, going by