Mechanical sweepers for Bellary Road

01/27/08 09:21 - silkboard

Hope you heard about BBMP planning to employ Mechanical Sweepers for Bellary Road (Hebbal Flyover to Airport entrance). When I saw the document with work details (See page 15 here), I was thinking about how the winning bidder will manage to accomplish all that BBMP wants.

First of all, I don't know why the Mechanical Sweeper thing is getting so much importance. Read some lines below:

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traffic violators

01/25/08 06:47 - thampan

for those of you who were talking about a citizen initiative to prevent traffic violations, here is a site which is attempting to do the same. http://www.trafficviolators.com/Home/tabid/37/Default.aspx You could create a login and then report traffic violations which you spot, along with registration numbers and pictures.

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Judicial reforms

01/24/08 17:08 - murali772

While the Karnataka High Court is to be commended for its efforts in introducing innovations like ‘mediation’, a question that arises is why is it not doing certain simple things that can earn it considerable goodwill from the litigants.

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Shiradi Ghat Road

01/24/08 13:55 - tsubba

Minister, Reality Part Ways On Shiradi Ghat

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Bangaloreing voters' list review

01/23/08 05:23 - murali772

I was quite excited to read the caption 'Voters' list review Bangalored' in your columns this morning (23rd Jan). However, on going through the text, I was disappointed to find that what was proposed hardly amounted to 'Bangaloreing', going by the general understanding of the term.

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Speed Governor

01/22/08 16:14 - Vasanth

Speed Governor issue has resulted in strike of trucks and private buses - Are they are the only accident causing vehicles. What about high speed cars, bikes and SUVs? Are they not resulting in any accidents? Joy ride of these vehicles had made our roads deadly dangerous. Problem is day by day the BHPs and CCs of vehicles that are introduced in India are increasing like anything. Bikes are moving from 100cc to 150cc and now 200+ CCs producing more than 13-14 bhps and cars are moving from 800cc to 1,300+ CCs producing in excess of 100bhp. In olden days, there was a strict control in India for the CCs and BHPs of the vehicles launched. M800 producing 35bhp itself was felt very powerful at that time, now it is the least. Yamaha RX100 producing 11bhp was considered very powerful, now most of the bikes in the markets produce that. People in India do not have the discipline to handle these high powered vehicles. They drive recklessly resulting in increased number of accidents mostly which will turn fatal.

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Rash driving - a policing issue

01/22/08 10:45 - murali772

Rash driving is essentially a policing issue. And, in this aspect, our BMTC drivers can give any call centre vehicle driver a run for his money alright. In fact, not a single day passes in Bangalore without some report or the other about rash driving by BMTC drivers, very often including fatalities. Even yesterday’s and today’s papers are full of the gory details.

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METRO? When?

01/22/08 01:16 - blrsri

We are talking of busses as a alternative till the metro comes up..but actually how safe are they? Its almost weekly that they go about claiming lives of innocent people, including children..I would say a serious study needs to be done as to how many busses a road can take at any point in time and limits should be set on that!

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missing the point

01/21/08 11:17 - murali772

Last evening, I happened to watch the ‘Devil’s Advocate’ programme on CNN-IBN, where Karan Thapar was interviewing Sunita Narayan (of CSE). The subject of discussion was TATA motor’s NANO. And, contrary to the norm, both were generally agreed on many of the points that came up.

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Why do they do it?

01/20/08 11:39 - silkboard

"Richmond Circle", I said as I hopped on to a yellow-black three wheeler. The driver cut across a crowded road to do a flashy U-turn inviting glares and screeches from other motorists. But I knew my journey had begun and I was in safe hands. This is one set of service providers that respects its customers' time, isn't it.

While admiring his deft maneuvering skills, pavement hopping and well timed red-signal jumps, I wished for more entertainment inside the auto. Inhaling soot was the only option - I don't like smoking - so I started watching the meter. Time ticked slowly, so did the meter, but after a few minutes, I witnessed it. 1.50, 1.60, 1.70 ... 1.90, all in about two seconds.

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