HOT TOPICS
SPOTLIGHT AGENCIES
BIAL Expressway in legal battle shas3n - 20-JUL-2007
Q: What is the last thing an express highway needs? A: A legal bottelneck. Go ask anyone at NICE and they would swear by it. |
shas3n - 20-JUL-2007
Several times I have been harrassed by traffic police. I have even been fined on a one-way inspite of going in the correct direction. I kept arguing and the cop kept threatening me with words like warrant, summons etc. Finally I ended up paying 100 Rs fine inspite of following all the rules. That had left a bitter taste in my mouth about traffic police. |
Murphy’s Laws of Bangalore Traffic Vijay - 19-JUL-20071. A stopped bus suddenly starts cutting into your lane when you have crossed it halfway 2. The passenger at the window seat in a bus decides to spit ONLY when your car is next to it 3. An Auto on your left at a traffic light will always move across to the right once the light turns green 4. If a passenger in an Auto is giving signals, then the Auto will move in the opposite direction |
tsubba - 18-JUL-2007Even if we donot always understand the whats and whys of what they do, we have all heard of the B* organizations - BBMP, BDA, BCP, BMTC, BMRC & so on. Now meet RITES, the Dilli based consultancy arm of the Indian Railways. Many of the B* orgs' projects depend on it. |
shas3n - 18-JUL-2007
We all have seen the roads that are asphalted being dug up the next day by phone companies. Then there is this case of water supply folks cutting off telephone lines or vice-versa. |
Bangalore Metro round-up July 18 shas3n - 18-JUL-2007
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tsubba - 13-JUL-2007
Key BIAL Concessionaires
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tsubba - 13-JUL-2007
BIAL to invest in the high speed rail to the airport. Interestingly the rail connectivity to cost more than the airport itself. |
tsubba - 13-JUL-2007
A summary of the developments so far. Check the links for context.
Second BIAL runway by 2013: Brunner |
BIAL Official Updates July 2007 tsubba - 13-JUL-2007
Construction progress during June 2007 |