Trademark Bengaluru Road

sandeepmr - 29-AUG-2008

Spotted a video on Flickr uploaded by some visitor probably on his way to the airport. I don’t recognize the road in the video (not because I have been out of Bangalore for some time now), because all the roads and more importantly the road conditions are strikingly similar nowadays.

Quick observations:

Instead of BMTC, if TVS/ TATAs were providing public bus transport services, would you switch to using them?

murali772 - 29-AUG-2008

* Yes * No

Entropy on roads - examples

silkboard - 28-AUG-2008

Entropy, aka chaos on the roads is a subject we have discussed a lot here. There are about a hundred comments thrown across various posts. How about consolidating those points and making them more presentable via picture posts? Here is my attempt with pictures over last two months. Look, we need to explain and understand one thing very clearly. Flyovers and road widening projects are like buying extra large clothes to deal with obesity. Some folks prefer exercises or medicines to shed some fat.

Get business friendly

murali772 - 27-AUG-2008

An international team of researchers has just released a Global Urban Competitiveness Report, which takes stock of 500 cities around the world. New York has been found to be the most competitive city in the world, followed, in that order, by London, Tokyo, Paris and Washington, DC.

BCIL's survey on Bangalore car commuters

shas3n - 21-AUG-2008

BCIL recently conducted a survey among car owners who commute to work to find out whether they would be willing to consider a public transport alternative.

They have released the report (executive summary in fact) and it does have some useful insights. You can see the press release here, the executive summary PPT is available here and here is TOI's coverage.

‘Karnataka 2020′ Vision: Belgaum may benefit

belgaumblog - 20-AUG-2008

For all-round development of the State Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said the Government is preparing a vision document ‘Karnataka 2020′.

Unravelling Myths about Subsidies in Urban Transport

shas3n - 19-AUG-2008

In a recent article published by Ashok Sreenivas and Girish Sant in EPW, they demonstrate that private vehicles get more subsidy from Goverment than public trans

Us and Them - Metro for free!

silkboard - 17-AUG-2008

Read in newspapers last week that if things go as being planned Hyderabad will end up getting a 71 km long Metro for free! Actually, not just free, they will end up getting paid some money (Rs 1240 crores, about 10% of the project cost of Rs 12410 crores) by the winning consortium. Read it yourself, this biz-standard article - Hyd to get 71 km Metro for free. Stats to compare from cost angle are - 65 km Delhi Metro comes at Rs 10500 crores, and 42 km Bangalore at Rs 6500 Crores, both are state funded.

booze, banjo and bangalore

tsubba - 14-AUG-2008

* drinking and driving dont mix * drumming and drinking dont mix * drinking, drumming and bangalore dont mix * by two kaapi for me

Water supply PPP

murali772 - 13-AUG-2008

Nagpur Municipal Corporation has invited for 'Expression of Interest' for pre-qualification for bidding for its 24x7 City Water Supply Project, on PPP basis. Should Bangalore follow suit?

Through its ad on page 15 Sunday TOI (dt 10/08/08, click on right-side bottom corner at