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Bangalore Metro vs. CMH Road HC Case tsubba - 27-FEB-2008
Writ petition by CMH Shops and Establishments, and
Residents Association and K. V. Ramakrishna and N. Suresh Kumar,
challenging the alignment of
Metro
through the CMH Road and 100 feet Road in Indiranagar and seeking a
stay on further work along the CMH road. The petitioners seek an
alternate alignment along the Old Madras Road. They
have also sought appointment of an expert committee to consider the
economic, social and environmental aspect of impugned alignment. |
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CRS Bangalore: A project that never gets the green tsubba - 27-FEB-2008
The railway budget 08-09 is out. The fares are down. Plea for
Bangalore-Arsikere-Mangalore is left un-answered, but we have been
blessed with a handful of other trains instead. Also featured in the
new budget are more half hearted promises on the same old projects that
have been on simmer since more than a decade now (be done with the
Gulbarga Bidar line already). As far as Bangalore, in and by itself is
concerned, the CRS finds no mention in the 08-09 budget. With this two
years would have passed in the Comprehensive Traffic and Transport
Plan's Phase I(07-12) with no action on the 204 km CRS project. |
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BIAL Official Updates January 2008 tsubba - 26-FEB-2008Official updates for January 2008 The integrated trial phase is on at the Bengaluru International Airport. This stage signals the final trial phase of the airport and involves integrating various processes to simulate real life airport operation. The integrated trial phase will continue till next month. |
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blrsri - 26-FEB-2008* is woefully slow, how many more months will they make MG road a dump yard?\n* is just fine..let them work peacefully\n* need to made faster..we need the first phase by 2009\n* \n* \n |
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tsubba - 24-FEB-2008
Bhoomi to get urban makeover |
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tsubba - 19-FEB-2008
A swiss challenge by a consortium of dilli-based IDEB Inc and Shanghai
Urban Construction Group, proposes three elevated 2x2 corridors: misnk
square to hebbal, kodihalli to kundlahalli gate and vellara jn to
silkboard. This ofcourse, is pending government approval. |
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Road widening doesnt always help! blrsri - 16-FEB-2008There was this article on the web about research done on traffic congestion. It opens up a new perspective about transport.. "..more road capacity will not by itself substantially reduce congestion. Urbanist Anthony Downs once famously stated that travel demand on freeways rises to meet capacity. If new lanes are added, congestion problems might be lessened in the short run. But that reduced congestion will attract drivers who previously used other routes, traveled at different times of the day, used other modes, or drove less or not at all. New roads and lanes do provide additional mobility and other transportation benefits, but increased road capacity provides less congestion relief than one might expect. " |
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Should BIAL be subject to RTI? tsubba - 13-FEB-2008* Yes\n* No\n* I dont care.\n* \n* \n |
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BMTC Services To Bengaluru International Airport tsubba - 13-FEB-2008
[Update May 29: Read this and this for experiences around BMTC Airport buses.]
The BMTC has released the fares of the soon to be introduced ‘Airport
Bus Service’ to BIAL, connecting the airport from eight locations of
the city. These buses will be numbered as BIAL 1 to 7 for the first
seven routes that are expected to hit the roads in the last week of
March. |
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alagiri - 11-FEB-2008Does anybody have updates on the status of the cabinet approval on the proposed new BDA layouts. -Alagiri |