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BTMC Issues - From RCA Perspective-2 Bheema.Upadhyaya - 19-MAR-2010
This is in continuation of my last post. This time I thought to take delayed disturbed scheduling. As you all aware, RCA is simple technique to find out root causes and thus first step to eliminate bad causes. Some of the caused may be repetitive from last post. But if repeated it should be considered as a major cause and should be given priority.
Effect - Buses not operating in time thus causing inconvinience to public and to BMTC scheduling system itself Causes due to - 1. Traffic Jam at Signal due to -> Long Signals -> Heavy Vehicle Rush -> No traffic Management in junctions -> No signal 2. Traffic Jam at Roads due to |
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Commissioning of Doubling Track between Dharwad Mugad Sanjeev - 18-MAR-2010
SWR has given press notice that on 18.03.2010 will conduct the speed trial on Dharwad to Mugad ( 14 Kms ) on newly laid double line. Now We have double line laid recently between Hubli to Hebsur 19 Kms towards Gadag & Arsikere and Devanur (14 km). With this Dharwad to Kambargavi ( 20 Kms ) Yesvanthpur to Londa has got further boost on double track slowly. We have double track from Hubli junction upto Hubli South Station ( 6 Kms ) towards Kundagol Now Hubli-Dharwad twin city can have local trains with DEMU trains running on the double track. Train can run between Dharwad ( from Karnataka University ) upto Gadag or Kundagol with so many station on the way, many educational colleges & major Hospitals. SWR should start working on starting local train. |
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Effect of Metro stations on adjacent roads muthusubs - 16-MAR-2010
The metro work is underway on main roads in most part of Bangalore. The metro stations that are to be constructed are significantly wider than the main track. Will this not create bottlenecks on adjacent roads? For example, there is a metro station being constructed on Old Madras Road near the 80ft road junction. The Old Madras road which is wider on either side of the station suddenly becomes very narrow leading to frequent traffic jams here. Even after the construction of the station, the road width isn't going to change and this can be a serious problem later on. Consider the Vijaynagar main road. If the Metro station is constructed near the Bunts Sangha, it will almost be as wide as the road today. How can the width of the roads be made uniform throughout? Is this something that BMRCL is thinking of? In addition, the presence of a station will require rickshaw stands and bus stops nearby which means the roads have to be wider in these places. On the contrary, the station makes the road narrower. This is definitely a double whammy. |
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Mysore road expansion - how can you remove the bottleneck? muthusubs - 16-MAR-2010
Do planners in Bangalore realize that bottlenecks are the main source of traffic problems? It doesn't matter if you have a 5km long 8 lane road at the end of which has a bottleneck which reduces to 2 lanes. It looks like that the Mysore road is going to be widened. The govt will end up spending crores of money and cause inconvenience to lot of riders during this widening spree. We'll also lose all the trees which so far have kept the Mysore road a complete canopy. But the Bapujinagar bridge is a huge bottleneck. If nothing is done to widen at this point, the whole effort is meaningless. Given that we have the Masjid and the GhaaLi Anjaneya temple on either side, we can imagine that this part of the road can never be widened. Do the officials even think about this before going about doing their job of road widening? |
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Naveen - 16-MAR-2010
The plan to build a large, formal bus stand for Mangalore had been conceived some years ago. Mangalore's original bus stand at Hampankatta had been too small with no scope for any expansion as it had been sandwiched right in the heart of town (CBD). Hence, KSRTC had shifted out to a newer facility of it's own long ago, however private buses continued to use the same bus-stand. With efflux of time, increased number of buses & severe congestion, the inter-city bus stand was moved to Statebank, close to the fishing harbour, which had long been the terminus for intra-city buses (The Hampankatta bus stand is now a convenient parking facility). Within a few years, due to increasing growth rate/s, much higher number of buses & space constraints, the need for a much larger facility was becoming more & more acute. |
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DCE- DTU Controversy - An Alumnus' Perspective shekhar_mittal - 15-MAR-2010
It has turned into a fortress. From the looks of it more than 300 cops have been deployed. In its almost 60 year history, that too in the middle of the internal examinations, for the first time Delhi College of Engineering is witnessing a student strike! |
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psaram42 - 14-MAR-2010
India has a total land area of 328 Million Hectare (MH), out of which 162 MH have already come in to cultivation. This is a high percentage of 51% of the total land of the country. The forest and natural vegetation area is about 19.25%, which is less than an optimum of about 33.33%. Photographic proof from satellite imaginary seems to have proved this beyond doubt. Forest (green) is important for keeping the CO2 balance in the atmosphere. |
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sanjayv - 13-MAR-2010
I came across this interesting document while surfing around on the BBMP website for Qtr2 09-10. It is a fairly large report sent to quarterly to the central government on the status of various JNNURM projects implemented by the BBMP. It makes interesting reading. I think a careful perusla and analysis will shed a lot of light on how projects are run and the attitude of the govt officials towards the public. Here is a snapshot from the item on the Tagore circle underpass. Tender release date: 25/09/2007, Scheduled date: October 2008 Budget: 2318 lakhs Reason for delay: Project not started due to non-cooperation by the public.MLA intervention is sought. Issue is being "solved".
Eh? The public is an impediment. in the path of progress. A problem! Link to the report here. |
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srinidhi - 11-MAR-2010
Naveen presented a good summary of his meeting with BMRCL One thing that came of that was the DPR for the phase II was in the final stages and would be out soon..there are already questions on |
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Analyzing Karnataka's Census data silkboard - 1-MAR-2010
Come 2011, and we will have our once in a decade census done. If the projections prove right (http://censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Projected_Population/Projected_Population.pdf), then Karnataka would be pegged at ~ 5.94 crore people. |