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tsubba - 13-JUL-2007BIAL Updates |
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Moving The Finish Line The Bangalore Way tsubba - 13-JUL-2007
Sticking with it for over a decade now, to get a pioneering legal framework setup and then going on to implement the country's first greenfield airport project, BIAL's Albert Brunner has shown that he's a lambe race ka ghoda. But with Bangalore continuously moving the finish line, he's having a horrible time pacing the race. |
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Lacking Traffic Discipline in Bangalore rvas - 13-JUL-2007
Bangalore means Traffic - Wherever we see, we see jams, accidents, fights between drivers and much more unpredictable incidents. What is preventing Bangalore from having a clean, disciplined traffic. Few of the issues I found the difference between foreign countries and India in General and Bangalore in Particular are: 1. People are not afraid of Law and the Traffic Cops. |
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tsubba - 11-JUL-2007Buried deep inside the pages is a very interesting piece of news. Is it Bidadi they are talking about? "Real estate giant DLF is set to bag a township project in Bangalore spread over 9,000 acres that could entail an investment of about $10-20 billion. |
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tsubba - 10-JUL-2007Yet another pronouncement about elections to local urban bodies. HDK orders that the elections be setup by July 31 for all local bodies except BBMP. Ramalinga Reddy and Dharam Singh(remember him?) of the Congress Party take objection to BBMP being excluded. |
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silkboard - 10-JUL-2007
Has anyone tried watching BTIS Live at various times of the day? Some days, I noticed reds and yellows even at midnight hours. Can't just sit and observer, may be a program to "get" the image and save it every 30 minutes will do it :)
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Flyovers - Thank God the ‘truth’ is out! silkboard - 10-JUL-2007
By the way, its not just the mainstream media, Union urban development ministry too has the right language now. Did you read this last week: |
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silkboard - 8-JUL-2007
It might be the one legged cousin of super glamorous Metro. But the Mono project isn't dead if you thought so based on recent lack of news and updates on it. The Hindu reported that BMRC is close to making the call on picking a consultant for Mono. As expected, newspapers have more meat than BMRC website itself. However, BMRC has this cryptic sounding note on their news page right now: |
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Non-stop to San Francisco, finally! silkboard - 8-JUL-2007
Read today that Air India is planning a non-stop Bangalore - SFO connection. Cool! Long pending, this thing was. I have always wondered why Jet or Air India haven't tried to eat into all the money Lufthansa, Singapore, British etc are making on Bangalore - US West Coast routes. I bet once KingFisher gets its permit to fly abroad, we'd have another BLR-SFO direct. |
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tsubba - 7-JUL-2007How about this to prevent people from randomly cutting lanes? really cool that they are trying it out on the streets, but I have a sneaky suspicion that people are not cutting there bcoz of the camera man. ;) |
Ah, was I glad to see major newspapers talk negative about flyovers last month!! The irony is that these folks are responsible for building the hype around the ‘f’ word. Anyways, good. We finally realize these things are not the panacea. Yeah they aren’t, and I'll tell you why.
