BIAL Official Updates September 2007

tsubba - 5-OCT-2007

New! Oct 2007 Images Of BIAL!!

New! Oct 2007 BIAL Airport City, Plans & Renders!!

The opening of the new Bangalore International Airport draws closer with just 6 more months to go. Progress on the project is now approximately 85%. In addition to the runway being complete, the taxiway has also been completed. At the terminal building, all the civil works are now done and finishing works are in progress.

‘Bellary Road only option’

arunvishvin - 5-OCT-2007

It’s official. The airport expressway planned by the BMRDA to provide connectivity to Devanahalli International Airport will not be ready till 2009.

Its a Shrinking World

tsubba - 3-OCT-2007

Even as working mothers at EC complain of not being able to spend time with their new borns, KA Govt's incessant, relentless attack on BMIC, gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "its a shrinking world".

If last week it was Global Infrastructure Consortium and its monorail, this week its, I'm kidding you not, Asian Infrastructure Consortium, headed by a Malaysian monorail company! Even before you can say Swiss Challenge, within one week, HDK's KA govt has come up with a whole new proposal and a whole new petition.

Do blogs also need to be marketed ?

cvikash - 3-OCT-2007

With a horde of blogs competing with each other for attention, they need some kind of marketing. This is necessary not only for retention but also to attract new ideas from more people.

Of Pedestrians & Pensioners

tsubba - 3-OCT-2007

Received a forward of this Ammu Joseph article on email. When senior artist V. Balu passed away in mid-September, after being knocked down by a two-wheeler, he joined the growing number of pedestrians killed in road accidents in Bangalore. In 2006 there were 463 pedestrian casualties, up from 390 in 2004. The first four months of this year saw 177 pedestrians losing their lives; at that rate the death toll for 2007 is likely to be 531. It is estimated that pedestrians make up 35 to 38 per cent of the fatalities caused by vehicular accidents in the city every year.

DLF to build a 'new Bangalore' at Bidadi !

silkboard - 2-OCT-2007

Looks like DLF is all set to translate BMRDA's satellite town vision into reality. As per today's newspapers, BMRDA is going to award the contract for building a Knowledge City at Bidadi to DLF. The project involves an investment of Rs 60000 crores!! Here are some interesting snippets pulled out from the media reports this morning:

Bangalore Metro Phase 1 Extensions

tsubba - 1-OCT-2007

The TOI is reporting that BMRC has decided to add another 8 kms to the existing 33 kms of phase 1 of Bangalore Metro.

The middle-class slums?

silkboard - 30-SEP-2007

Literally no peace or silence. Hear it all loud and clear when any of your neighbors talk. So called 'individual' houses, most of them joined with one another at hips. No air or space between them. 8 to 10 feet wide roads (practically speaking), dotted with cars, and cobwebbed with cables of all sorts - tv, telephone and electricity in that order.

[flickr-photo:id=1070869665,size=m][flickr-photo:id=1070868895,size=m][flickr-photo:id=1071734032,size=m]

Normal Theatres Giving Way to Multiplexes - Is this a good sign?

Vasanth - 29-SEP-2007

Nowadays, normal movie theaters are disappearing, especially in MG Road - Cantonment area leading to multiplexes. These multiplexes are so expensive, it will create a lot of imbalance between the rich and the poor. Why countries like America has become so successful is that the gap between the rich and the poor is less since most of the things are affordable by a common man.

BMIC - Supreme Court questions notification inviting global bids

silkboard - 28-SEP-2007

So, as was expected by most, Supreme Court questions BMIC notification inviting global bids:

"The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the Karnataka Government for issuing a notification inviting global bids for the Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) project when there was a specific direction issued in April 2006 to the State and to Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises (NICE) to complete the project expeditiously."