Core City - 'Pete' Decongestion Proposal - Making Streets Bus & Bicycle Only

Vasanth - 24-JAN-2014

PUBLIC TRANSPORT (BUS) AND NMT ACCESSIBILITY PLAN FOR THE HISTORIC CORE OF BANGALORE CITY by MURALI T V, JOINT DIRECTOR OF TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, GOVT. OF KARNATAKA

http://www.urbanmobilityindia.in/Upload/Conference/1c5ff3e0-b8fc-4b6e-ba3f-e795e22522ca.pdf

Will half of Bangalore be evacuated in ten years?

psaram42 - 21-SEP-2013

A Talk by Mr.V.Balasubramanian, former Addl.Chief Secretry of GOK on BOOM CITY OR DOOM CITY - and on the above subject has been arranged by Indian Institute of Public Administration TODAY (21-9-13) at 5 PM Venue: IAS Officers Association, Opp: Hotel Ashraya on Infantry Road beginning.

Chiranjiv Singh report - on new capital for Karnataka

silkboard - 4-FEB-2013

Mr Chiranjiv Singh, an IAS officer from 69 batch, now retired headed this Alternative Capital Project (ACP). ACP and Mr Singh apparently produced a report that suggested building a new capital city of Bangalore. I have heard about this report from a few people, but haven't seen this report at all, nor have I met Mr Chiranjiv Singh.

BRTS for Bangalore: feasibility, suggestions

coolguru143 - 20-JAN-2013

I was reading through some of the BRTS all over the world both failed and success stories. I wanted to check how feasible to implement this in Bangalore and is there any other alternative to improve the existing system. The major reasons of BRTS failure are:

More roads for decongestion !!!

idontspam - 9-JAN-2013

"Over the next five years approximately Rs 55,000 crore will have to be spent in building flyovers and other arterial link roads in order to decongest the traffic in the city by 50%," said R Nagaraj, president of CREDAI's Bangalore chapter.

Orion Mall - Traffic planning

idontspam - 25-MAR-2012

Some good work being done here proactively by citizens of Malleshwaram around the new mall thats coming up in the area... 

Some preliminary problems that we saw at Orion mall:

Elevated 'through' corridor concept - a "plus" inside Outer Ring Road

silkboard - 8-FEB-2012

Talking of vehicle movements, one need not addressed very well yet inside Bangalore city is separation of long-distance movements with local movements. One way this might be getting done today for goods movement  is by routing their city entry from the point nearest to destination on Outer Ring Road.

Fuel Subsidies, Road user fee - Common sense prevails, At Last

Naveen - 22-DEC-2011

Some positive developments - long overdue, though not very comforting for the car-dependent public in bangalore. Following are excerpts from an on-line headline news portal :

Railways can help Bangalore

Arun - 29-NOV-2011

Railways can play a great role in taking over Bangalore’s transport.  Yes, take over!  This requires tremendous amount of political will though.

Few steps that can take us towards this are listed below.  As we discuss many more ideas are surely going to emerge.

Sarjapur road signal-free corridor saga

murali772 - 28-SEP-2011

On the 10th of the month, a set of mails were received on the "savekoramangala" yahoo-group from a prominent member of the community, alongwith drawings (and a list, which is attached), informing that the BDA is undertaking construction of flyovers and underpasses on Sarjapura Road (at junctions marked A, B,C & D in the map below), as part of the "Signal-free Corridor between