Posts : Bangalore

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.

Need Your Presence at the Nanda Rd Event This Saturday

kanishkaRCML - 8-MAY-2009

The protests opposing the current plans of the Bangalore Metro in the Southern Reach have been well publicized in the mainstream media. As a result, they have elicited statements from politicians across party lines supporting  the suggestion that the design and alignment of the metro be re-examined before further work is taken up.

Save Labagh & Nanda Road Protest

kanishkaRCML - 8-MAY-2009

Location: 32nd Cross and Nanda Road, Bangalore
Time: 8 am
Date: May 9, 2009
Details: http://www.hasiruusiru.org

Chief Election Commissioner’s name missing in voters list

psaram42 - 8-MAY-2009

 Mr. Navin chawla, Chief Election Commissioner of India found his name deleted in the voters list. He had gone to the polling booth with his family to cast his vote.

"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.

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.

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.

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.