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Questions for BIAL - your turn!

03/25/08 09:26 - admin123

[Update: Date for BIAL trip moved to Sunday, Apr 6th. Unfortunately, only 20 can go. We will give preference to long time members and those who write/comment a lot on BIAL here].

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Check out HIAL pics

03/25/08 00:30 - tsubba

Lot of pics of the first day of HIAL's operations. looks wonderful. http://www.flickr.com/photos/66784923@N00/sets/72157604212809989/

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Slum re-development under JNNURM

03/24/08 23:12 - tsubba

 

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Commuter Rail Service

03/24/08 13:02 - tsubba

Yeah, a commuter Rail Service For Bangalore. There are tracks, but no Will. One look at city's rail map (click to see bigger image on flickr), and you know it has to happen, some day soon.

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South Western Railway - please wake up and listen to us!

03/24/08 03:58 - admin123

Thank you Business-standard for striking the right notes (See "Karnataka ignores ..."). So many of us see the potential of SW Railway's assets around our city and wish they woke up and listened to us.
"... experts feel that the Indian Railways’ network in and around the city can be utilised to ferry passengers at a fraction of the cost ..."
 
 
The point in the article that disappoints us most is:
 

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Short term fix - Lease out HAL airport to BIAL?

03/24/08 03:45 - silkboard

On the ever so hot HAL vs BIAL debate, I saw an interesting letter to editor column of TOI (Fri Mar 21) where author Narayan G sort of suggested this - Why not lease HAL airport to BIAL itself? That could be a short term fix till BBMP/state government improves connectivity. BIAL would get revenue from HAL as well as BIAL for sometime, hopefully that will give them enough revenues to keep them from going to courts over breach of contract. We would get better facilities at HAL airport. And since BIAL would want to gain efficiency of operations by consolidating all air traffic at BIA, they will keep pushing everyone on the connectivity issue and wouldn't want to hang on to HAL for ever.

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Eating up the lake?

03/23/08 18:58 - silkboard

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Arkavathy Serious. Arrive Soon.

03/23/08 15:07 - tsubba

Arkavathi had origins in the Nandi Hills. After a journey of 190 kms around Bangalore it joined the Cauvery at the Sangama in Kanakapura district. Vrushbhavathi was a tributary of the Arkavathi. Arkvathi had a catchment area of 4351 sq. kms from where it collected water.

Both Doddaballapura and Ramanagara depend on Arkavathi, not to mention numerous villages. In 1894 Bangalore first ran out of water from within its boundaries. Then they built two reservoirs on the Arkavathi - the Hesaraghatta reservoir(1894) and the Thippagondanahalli reservoir(1933). Even to this day Arkavathy supplies 20% of Bangalore's water supply.

Like the rest of the peninsular rivers, Arkavathy was never a Brahmaputra. During summers, Arkavathy would reduce to a trickle. Yet was a time when, even in summers, you could get water at 4 meters below ground in any of the 30000 wells in its basin. Now there is no river even in the rainy season. But now, Arkavathy is dead. Maybe not, but Arkavathi is atleast in coma.

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Transport Challenged People of Bangalore

03/22/08 03:50 - sudhir

originally posted at the cityfix_

Krishnappa is a security guard for a multinational software firm in Bangalore who, for the past thirty years, has walked and cycled to work. For Krishnappa, the trip, which often took around 15 to 30 minutes, was one of life’s small pleasures as he made his way along Bangalore’s tree-shaded streets, often meeting friends and acquaintances, discussing politics and family matters, before continuing on his way. However, in recent years he has been unable to walk or cycle to work. And it’s not because of age or injury.

All pictures by Sudhir G.

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Site Maintenance

03/21/08 09:45 - admin123

Update!! We are done with the site maintenance. Do let us know if you notice any problems on the site. ----0----0----0----0---- The site will be down for maintenance for a brief period tonight. We are starting routine backing up and other minor tasks and the site would be down for the following period. Start: 10:00 PM IST on 21st March End : 11:59 PM IST on 21st March.

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