Posts : Analysis

The Kannada Serial Mahanavami

psaram42 - 8-DEC-2009

 Mahanavami is a currently popular TV serial on the ETV Kannada channel of Ramoji film city. The address is of Ramoji film city office at Bangalore is 9/7, K C N Bhavan Madhava Nagar, Bangalore, and Karnataka 560001. Phone: 080 22352230.

Who let the dogs out?

idontspam - 8-DEC-2009

The KC General Hospital receives 20 to 30 dog bite

Metro : Perspective

bharatm - 5-DEC-2009

Summary: I came across a nice article supporting Metro and I started analysing my stand where I oppose Metro unless it proven satisfactory in all dimension which are basically 

  1.  Direct Cost Involved
  2. Indirect Cost Involved
  3. Direct Savings
  4. Indirect savings

Details: 

Street topography

idontspam - 1-DEC-2009

 Here is a typical 2 lane street residential street, not too dissimilar from the ones we have in Bangalore. Notice the following

1. Pedestrian refuge even on a narrow street

2. Pedestrian crossings & frequency (second one at the top of the turn)

3. Bus stand and visible indicators for the same

Metro : Hypnotized

bharatm - 30-NOV-2009

Summary: Do we have any other choices other than Metro? Are we trying to hide our deficiencies and closed our eyes to all the improvements? How good metro projections are? All these questions are very critical and crucial before we consider Metro project?

Details

Do we have any other choices other than Metro? 

Traffic Fines - Revenue Realization

idontspam - 29-NOV-2009

Managed to chart the fine & case data provided last year by the Bangalore Traffic Police to Praja.

Signal Cycle times in Bangalore

idontspam - 29-NOV-2009

Cycle time data for various traffic signals in Bangalore by police station jurisdiction

 

Click for larger view

Metro : Reality Check for Speed, Money and Hopes

bharatm - 29-NOV-2009

Summary: This article tries to analyse Metro project and expectation from it. If they are reasonable? Also have the people who decided for metro really considered existing system's potential and limitation correctly? If yes than what was cost and efficiency prompted them for alternative. Its a hard to answer but it will be true reality check for metro.

Concepts for an Integrated Road Design Manual

psaram42 - 29-NOV-2009

1.0 Introduction

A normal concept of road design includes the following -- (1) 

Mysore: Some Clarifications on Demolitions

Mani1972 - 27-NOV-2009

Dear Friends,
 
As no more comments are forthcoming on the issues, let me try to answer all the queries raised.