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Bangalore Airport Link Rail Corporation 12/18/07 04:01 - tsubba
TNN's R Jayaprakash(ToI Dec 18 2007) is reporting that in the next few
weeks, the government will float a Bangalore Airport
Link Rail Corporation and set up a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
to handle the affairs. Quoting an official working on the project the
report says that the tentative name suggested is Bangalore Airport Rail Link
Corporation. This follows the meeting DMRC’s E Sreedharan had
with the governor. The governor’s office will seek Centre’s consent in
the
absence of an elected body. And get this, apparently, the train
promises to take you from MG road to airport in
just 15
minutes!!! person tsubba's post | forum 51 Comments | Read More
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BIAL Connectivity Updates December 2007 12/16/07 18:52 - tsubba
Updates on the proposed high speed rail, the proposed expressway and
improvements to existing NH7 to BIAL. person tsubba's post | forum 7 Comments | Read More
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12/16/07 16:42 - tsubba
According to The
Hindu,
Governor Rameshwar Thakur convened a high-level meeting on execution of
the BMIC project at the Raj Bhavan on Saturday, Dec 15th 2007. Baba
Kalyani, chairman of the Kalyani Group of companies, called on the
Governor and urged the government to allot land for the project as per
the framework agreement as early possible for early completion of the
project. According to ToI(Dec 16, 2007), the Governor was keen on
knowing obstacles facing the first phase of the project and is reported
to have asked to give in writing the land required for completing the
peripheral and link roads. ToI also reports that the governor had filed
an affidavit in the Supreme Court seeking time to take a re-look at the
project. person tsubba's post | forum 14 Comments | Read More
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Robbing The Hungry - the racket called PDS 12/16/07 02:18 - murali772With even the likes of Medha Patkar critical of the system, perhaps the only ones who would be opposed to it's being dismantled would now be just the racketeers and a few pseudo-socialists. Isn't it a crying shame that the country continues to allow as massive a loot as an annual Rs 10,000 crores by this lot?
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Impact And Alternatives of Road Widening In Bangalore 12/16/07 01:53 - tsubba
ROAD WIDENING SCHEMES OF BENGALURU: IMPACTS AND ALTERNATIVES person tsubba's post | forum 4 Comments | Read More
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Commuter Rail can make our city better 12/14/07 02:13 - sivanandas
CTTP has all the details for improving transport facilities in Bengaluru through various options. While the Metro / Mono take their own sweet time for completion, making use of the existing railway network on a limited scale on a few routes can be an immediate solution. I understand that the railway lines cover only a certain portion of the city, and local train transport with feeder bus services will have a great impact for that portions. The Kengeri-Whitefield route can be a pilot route as it is already an electrified double track. With the BMTC & private industrial managements, including software tech parks providing feeder services from their respective places to the nearest terminals, this can be a very effective solution in the immediate future. Our daily traffic situation is only growing worser day-by-day and i believe if this is implemented in a small way, our city can become better. person sivanandas's post | forum 11 Comments | Read More
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12/12/07 14:34 - tsubba
Municipal Water and State-Society Relations at the Periphery: Examining the Implications of Reforms in Greater Bangalore. person tsubba's post | forum 1 Comment | Read More |
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12/12/07 13:09 - murali772
Isn't it time that as important a task as preparation and maintenance of the electoral roles (and issuance of EPID cards), on which the success of the entire governance system rests, is out-sourced to professional agencies? person murali772's post | forum 4 Comments | Read More
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School vans (Omnis) - a disaster waiting to happen 12/12/07 07:03 - s_yajamanWhen I go to drop my boys at school and pick them up, a familiar sight greets me - Maruti Omnis with about 12-15 kids in each of them. There is not even space to keep their bags inside the Omni and so they are on the roof. Many of these are with white boards and so possibly illegally being used for this. If this overloading is not enough, the way they are driven is horrific. I have seen them go at full speed, jumping lights, taking turns without slowing down, etc. Sadly it seems a matter of time before something serious happens. person s_yajaman's post | forum 2 Comments | Read More
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Better Bussing For A Green Bangalore 12/12/07 06:55 - murali772
There's no denying that the tree cover in Bangalore is being lost largely due to road widening. Road widening is necessitated due to unchecked growth and usage of private vehicles. To address this problem, you have to have excellent public transport services. METRO may be a solution. But, it is extremely expensive, and at best a solution in the long-term. BMTC cannot cope up with the needs, however much they may appear to have become efficient, which they are not and cannot be, as long as they continue to enjoy a monopoly status. The simple answer is to facilitate the entry of TVS kind of companies (my first exposure to TVS was as a bus service provider in the city of Madurai) into the fray. The present rules do not provide for that. It facilitates only the 'Sharma' kind of operations, which in turn only helps provide fodder for the die-hard opponents of the private sector. person murali772's post | forum 36 Comments | Read More
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