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LEDs on Vehicles - Regulations = better safety for all? xs400 - 29-JUL-2013
With LEDs becoming cheaper, many have started fitting LEDs to vehicles as decorations. If fitted with care and some common sense they can look attractive and improve the vehicle's visibility. The problem starts with people using random colors and placing them on random parts of the vehicle. I saw a taxi cab with flashing blue and red LEDs on the windscreen. |
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Solid Waste Management - Vision Statement 2030 to BBMP Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 27-JUL-2013
The following VISION STATEMENT 2030 for SWM was forwarded to email ID swmbbmp.xc@gmail.com of BBMP on 6-7-2013 in response to its call for public opinion. This is for info of Prajas. How to educate citizens and actions to be initiated are also dealt with. |
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Waste Management and Road Pot Holes Legislation psaram42 - 26-JUL-2013
House hold waste management is an important issue in present day cities like our own Bangalore. Plastics invention was more of a bane than anything else, as it is not bio degradable. Its use and throw concept is thus environment unfriendly. Plastics were waiting to happen after Dhirubhai Ambany reliance “terilene”. |
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List of ROB's and RUB's within BBMP limits Sanjeev - 25-JUL-2013
List of major RUB's and ROB's within BBMP limit : Total 141 identified by RITES 2012 report as part of Commuter Rail.. Out of that how many will come under BBMP limits ??? Also Volume of Traffic more then 50000 TVU's are level crossing : 55 Nos. |
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Implementing Suburban Rail - SPV Model! kbsyed61 - 24-JUL-2013
Last Friday, News9 / TV9's aired a live 'Panel Discussion on Namma Railu' with Dr. Sitharam (CiSTUP), Smt. Sumithra Iyengar (BCIC), our friend Mr. Muralidhar Rao (Preseident - Praja-RAAG) and myself as a blogger on Namma Railu. |
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psaram42 - 24-JUL-2013
Dr. A Ravindra will deliver a talk on "Challanges of Bangalore" at BIC[Terri Campous] Date :- 25 July 2013 Time :- 6:30 PM Venue:- BIc[Terri Campous] |
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State Govt to develop towns around Bengaluru- Better late than never! kbsyed61 - 23-JUL-2013
If news paper reports is to be believed, state government is slowly realizing that, it is in the public interest that towns around Bengaluru are developed. Source - Deccan Herald |
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TV 9 / NEWS 9 - Panel Discussion on 'Bengaluru Suburban Rail Service' aka Namma Railu ! kbsyed61 - 19-JUL-2013
Video recording of the panel discussion hosted by TV 9 / News 9 on the subject of impelmenting 'Suburban Rail Service' in Bengaluru. Courtesy - TV 9 / News 9
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Need for change in work culture murali772 - 18-JUL-2013
The picture below of a switch box at the 4th cross junction, RMV extn, Sadashivanagar (near Sri Mallikarjun Kharge's house), possibly of the high-mast lamp installation adjacent to it, was taken yesterday. It is right on the footpath, and at a level where even school children can readily access the open wires. And, that is a potential hazard, particularly in the current monsoon season. |
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Bengaluru Suburban Rail - Just a Few Miles more to start,says Citizen Matters kbsyed61 - 15-JUL-2013
"...Reaching Tumkur, Ramanagar and other peripheral cities will be easy in future, when the Commuter Rail system becomes a reality. The project is expected to disperse the traffic inside the city as well as connect Bangalore with suburbs..." |