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idontspam - 26-FEB-2009
Stockholm and Hamburg became the first cities to be named European Green Capital on Monday, Stockholm was commended for beach improvements, high recycling rates, its congestion charging system, an extensive public transport system and carbon emissions that were half the national average. |
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VMD - Vehicle of Mass Destruction mcadambi - 26-FEB-2009
Ratan Tata's Tata Motors plans to introduce Tata Nano on Indian Roads by March 2009. Bangalore has 4 million two-wheelers and 450,000 cars. According to the India Infrastructure Report 2006, a two wheeler occupies 10 times more road space than a bus, in terms of per capita road space utilisation. |
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KSRTC’s profits are all blown up: CAG murali772 - 26-FEB-2009
The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) overstated profits by a total of Rs 126.42 crore in 2007-08, says the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) for the year. KSRTC, in its accounts earlier, had shown a profit Rs 40.54 crore in 2007-08. This means the KSRTC had actually incurred a loss of Rs 85.88 crore in 2007-08. |
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Ravi_D - 26-FEB-2009
Have you noticed those huge full-page / half-page ads in the news papers the last few days? |
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idontspam - 25-FEB-2009
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Bescom ordered to pay Rs-50 compensation for long outage murali772 - 25-FEB-2009
Consumer power rests on knowing your rights. You may remember cursing Bescom when there was a 21-hour power outage on April 29 and 30 last year. But this 73-year-old man did something more - he found out there is a provision for consumers to get compensation if power supply is interrupted beyond certain hours. |
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Ravi_D - 25-FEB-2009
Read some first snippets about upcoming BBMP Budget in DNA. |
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s_yajaman - 25-FEB-2009
Mr.Sreedharan made a few statements about a, Metro being unviable to airport - needs 40000/hr traffic. b. Private players who have come forward will get put off by talk of alternative plans Here is a plan for the private players which will better serve Bangaloreans |
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Namma Auto initiative - Updates :) veeracb - 24-FEB-2009
[See this post for details of Namma Auto initiative. Here are some updates on it.] |
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Traffic Management and urban planning psaram42 - 24-FEB-2009
Urban Planning for sustainable transport Infrastructure is a challenging task in a fast growing population economy as ours. |
Also called reversible lanes. A reversible lane (called a counterflow lane or contraflow lane in transport engineering nomenclature) is a lane in which traffic may travel in either direction, depending on certain conditions.