Posts : Media Reports

Vehicle registration rate dips in Bengaluru

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 15-MAY-2009

 

Media has reported that during the last six months number of vehicles being added to the city roads has come down drastically -

RTO - A functional database

Ravi_D - 14-MAY-2009

This TOI article reports progress in computerization effort

Community Bicycle Sharing

idontspam - 13-MAY-2009

Canada is pioneering on the North American continent what Europe has been doing in the following cities for long.

Metro work on MG Road today

srinidhi - 13-MAY-2009

 Had a chance to use the bus today to office..the bus went through  MG road for a distance..havent been on this road for about 3 years now! The superstructure is slowly getting into place..here are two photos..

No cars in your part of town? You must be in Vauban, Germany

mandayamr - 12-MAY-2009

Not related to Bangalore ... Just read this article on NYT, and thought of sharing the idea.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.html?th&emc=th

I think that my tags of "wishful thinking" "foolish expectations" are appropriate.

Plan for ORR and marathalli junction

Subodh - 10-MAY-2009

Hi,

Does anyone know plan on how ORR - Marathalli junction will be made signal free ? I could not find any post in Praja regarding this.

Recently I noticed that ramp from ORR (when you from KR Puram) to Marathalli bridge is being widened to 4 lanes road (two lanes on each direction).

Regards,
Subodh

More government hospitals for the city???

murali772 - 9-MAY-2009

Amongst the several projects supposedly announced earlier, and proposed to be taken up now, are four government hospitals on the lines of Victoria and Bowring medicare institutes to be built on land to be identied by BDA, going by  

SC grants three months to implement high security registration plates

murali772 - 6-MAY-2009

Supreme Court on Tuesday set a three-month deadline for the Centre and the state governments to implement high security registration plates (HSRPs), removing all ambiguity about the mandatory nature of its earlier order on the issue.

Forced pedestrianization! An opportunity.

Ravi_D - 6-MAY-2009

Brigade road is going to be closed for vehicular traffic for 10 days, per this DH report.

Bengaluru Railway stations

idontspam - 4-MAY-2009

The following piece brings back to focus an issue that we have been tolerating for long. Bengaluru’s railway station improvements have never implemented in totality thereby leaving a pathetic piece of infrastructure that passes for railway station.