ABIDE - Please put few more proposals in front of Government

Vasanth - 14-MAR-2009

I request ABIDe Members like professor Ashwin Mahesh who has been constantly interacting with us to take few more things with the Government.

1. Public Transport on NICE Peripheral road. 

Bellary Road Big 10

susanth - 13-MAR-2009

Information first, cribs later! I finally managed to decode the mystery named Bellary Road Big 10. This one operates between Shivajinagar bus stand and Yelahanka. The route as I understand right now is:
 

Tax Sops to encourage use of Public transport (BMTC) ?

srinirao - 9-MAR-2009

About the above discussion on Poor response BMTC I have following suggestion where in a common man is encouraged to use Public transport by giving Tax sops to him by Governament.

Tried office commute using Big10 - a report

silkboard - 5-MAR-2009

8.22 am - Wife dropped me at the main road outside our complex, a Big 10 was waiting right then and there. Even better, the driver stopped for me to save me a 50 m walk till the bus stand. Good or bad, I wonder, but I did say thanks to him.

Good response to Karnataka's Mega PPP on Roads

silkboard - 4-MAR-2009

In this round-up report today ("States pip NHAI in PPP road projects"), Biz-standard reporter Anirban Chowdhury has updates on Karnataka's mega PPP initiative to improve state's highways.

Steel Flyover; what an idea?

Arun - 3-MAR-2009

A steel flyover from Minerva Circle upto Hudson has been planned by BBMP.

Benniganahalli bridge work underway

srinidhi - 24-FEB-2009

Finally!! http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Bangalore/Underbridge-road-on-NH-4-to-be-widened/articleshow/4179483.cms

Any idea if the pedestrians are taken care of?? If not, we need to immediately get their attention on this!

"Only God can save Bangalore's pedestrians"

s_yajaman - 23-FEB-2009

So said Dr. Subramanya sometime in Dec 2007.  It seems that pavements are optional in Bangalore.  BBMP can spend 100s of crores on tarring roads, acquiring land for useless road widening (check out the stretch just after Domlur leading to Command Hospital), building flyovers with signals on top of them, etc etc, but has little money to spend on building and maintaining pavements.

The hardships of changing a bus

silkboard - 22-FEB-2009

Vasanth's Big10/ORR buses comment, and seeing a bus stop near silkboard junction move farther from the flyover prompts me to repeat a point made earlier.

Bengaluru Mono Rail - proposal details

idontspam - 11-FEB-2009

There is a proposal for runing Mono Rail in Bangalore by SCOMI-Geodesic consortium which is proposed to be awarded using the swiss-challenge method. As per initial high level information sent to Praja the consortium is proposing to build monorail along the three corridors.