Commuter Rail meeting with CiSTUP, went well, summary

silkboard - 15-JUL-2010

Sanjeev, IDS, PS Anantharam sir and myself went over to IISc today to meet head of CiSTUP. Short summary on how it went

• CiSTUP to add their review comments / foreword to the report
• We will jointly organize a roundtable/seminar at IISc/CiSTUP to formally release the report and discuss the subject with relevant government officers and leaders
• Will invite all transportation and investment related departments of Karnataka, railways as well, and also, local MLAs and MPs who have shown interest or tend to attend these.

We are thinking end of August for this Commuter Rail / Namma Railu seminar. Keep watching for mroe updates, or join in if you want to help organize this.

A hard copy of the report is available now, contact IDS or anyone from the Namma Railu project team if you want to see it. Wll upload the soft copy here as well as part of work for this seminar at CiSTUP.

Lets go Namma Railu :)

Mobilicity 2010 with CiSTUP

idontspam - 14-JUL-2010

Agenda: Discuss Mobilicity 2010 event which will have Commuter Rail and suburban connect as focus.

Venue: CiSTUP, IISC (18th cross mariamma temple circle entrance)

If interested you can show up at CiSTUP we will gather there before the meeting

Citizens question transport department’s policy draft

vaishvittal - 24-NOV-2009

At a recent meet on sustainable transport, Bangaloreans and officials discussed the state transport department’s draft policy, a document not many are aware of.

Read more on Citizen Matters

Brainstorming Session on Conservation and Management of Urban Lakes - A Report

sanjayv - 27-SEP-2009

The meeting was held in CiSTUP seminar room from 9 am to 5 pm. The room was full with a good complement of students.

We had the initial round of formalities followed by morning tea/breakfast

The morning session had several speakers discusing various aspects of urban lake conservation after which we had an afternoon discussion/brainstorming session

Brainstorming Session on Conservation and Management of Urban Lakes

sanjayv - 22-SEP-2009

Brainstorming Session on Conservation and Management of Urban Lakes

CiSTUP Conference Hall

SID Building

IISc Campus

Bangalore

Registration 8:30 am, Event Commences 9:00 am

Mobilicity - transportation 'unconference' for Bangalore

jennypinto - 15-SEP-2009

Please refer to other announcements about this big event being organized by volunteer members of Praja with help and support from CiSTUP. There is a project in progress to work on this event, project teams will certainly appreciate more members to join them.

Mobilicity - a sustainable transportation workshop for Bangalore

shekhar_mittal - 15-SEP-2009

• Project code name: Mobilicity
• Objective: Organize a grounds-up, unique format event to discuss sustainable transportation for Bangalore
• Organizers: Some volunteer members from Praja, with help and support from CiSTUP
• Date and Venue: Nov 21 '09, CiSTUP, IISc

Idea is to organize a unique

'Need for innovation in urban road infrastructure planning'

psaram42 - 13-JAN-2009

In to days Times of India article Mr. Praveen Sood Additional Commissioner of Police (traffic) has articulated his concern about the pedestrians and the problems faced by the traffic police in enforcing the traffic rules. In democracy people get what they deserve.

Bangalore Urban Planning Center

Ravi_D - 2-JAN-2009

GOK and IISC will come together to establish a Center for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP). I really like the idea of an institution like IISC heading this effort.

Read this 1/Jan DH Report for more.

Ravi