Fool proof Design and execution of city projects or only Co ordinate and still goof up

psaram42 - 27-NOV-2009

 “There’s some hope for Bangalore. For long, we’ve cursed the lack of coordination between civic agencies as they went about their work.

Public Transport Buses : Do we need metro ?

bharatm - 24-NOV-2009

Summary:  Today we are considering other alternative like Metro, flyover etc. Article try to questions that do we need to consider alternatives ? Have we exhausted capacity of the current Public Transport Bus system and there is no chance to improve efficiency and effectiveness. 

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BMTC citizen charter

bdpak - 18-NOV-2009

I had an opportunity to go through the citizen charter of the BMTC, especially the complaint handling system of the same and it read as below

§COMMUTER GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL SYSTEM:

Efficient design, execution and maintenance of roads in Bangalore

psaram42 - 17-NOV-2009

 Roads are integral part of a city allowing for the movement of goods and people to and fro various essential utilities for the harmonious existence of the cities human population. A city thus consist of  

Bangalore East Connectivity

Vasanth - 15-NOV-2009

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Public works - workings and problems

silkboard - 8-NOV-2009

This is to understand and the criticize the way this whole public tendering and works process works. Not as sexy a topic as Roads, Flyovers or Airports, but this is where it all happens - execution matters most. Most corruption also happens here as this is the place where money changes hands. Citizen involvement (lack of it) plays here - as work must be checked for quality.

ORR bottleneck - Bhadrappa Layout

idontspam - 7-NOV-2009

It is a good move by BDA to make the ORR Bhadrappa layout junction signal free. This junction assumes significance due to the fact that most of Sanjaynagar and RMV layout and gazillion other layouts in between use the Dr Rajagopal road/Gundappa road to reach ORR go towards the airport.

Indiranagar Metro in progress

psaram42 - 6-NOV-2009

 We had a nice meeting with Nathan and Kiran of Biome Environmental solutions where a lot of discussions took place about the concept note on Indiranagar Metro project in the context of forthcoming Mobil city Un-conference at IISc. The Metro passes through CMH and 100 ft roads in Indiranagar. We in Indiranagar are quite familiar with the Metro by now.

The Koramangala 'lake' saga

murali772 - 5-NOV-2009

There is the huge tract of land of 37 acres on the left when you come down BDA complex in Koramangala, while heading towards Wipro park. Just last week the Chief Minister has denotified the entire land in favour of the erstwhile land lord, inspite of orders at the Supreme Court level against any such act.

A total breakdown of urban planning - A microscopic look at the lowest level

blrpraj - 4-NOV-2009

When we look at Bangalore and see it's overburdened infrastructure falling apart (be it water, roads, power, footpath etc.) , one cannot help but think how we got to this point in the first place, since recognising the problem and it's causes is one of the first steps in effectively proposing and designing a solution to remedy the problem.