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Written By admin123 - 10 September, 2008

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[Update Sep 17: find all material presented at the summit on BMLTA website - click here]

Placeholder post for notes from those who attended the summit, and to upload/post material presentations etc obtained from the summit.

COMMENTS

3 levels!?

silkboard - 10 September, 2008 - 17:37

Okay, so perhaps this is what the BBMP engineers were talking when they proposed Inner Core Ring Road to be a 3-level road (see "inner ring road - whats up?"). Perhaps its all R K Misra's idea. Interesting.

Suhas - How did you guess!? That "upside down" conference is something on our roadmap. We badly want to do a thing like that. A conference where users aka consumers speak and present, of course in some analytical fashion. No bigwigs to present and talk, but we'd invite them to sit in the front-row and listen. We'd definitely do a conf like that, someday, not right now though - once we are a bit bigger and better known.

Nano Auto

tsubba - 10 September, 2008 - 23:20

The nano-nino(yaaru antha noDe biDoNa) auto tussle on the roads to go in for an upgrade. Sarkaara might pitch for Nano autos.
 
'Nano as city transport'
Bangalore, DHNS:

The Government can consider replacing autorickshaws on the roads with Nano cars when it gets launched was a novel suggestion mooted by Ravindra, former vice president of State Planning Board. This initiative could go a long way in curbing traffic jams in the future, he said.(How exactly?)
 
Delivering a talk during the afternoon session of the Bangalore Transportation Summit, Ravindra said, the government could give subsidies to auto drivers so that they can purchase Nanos and earn their livelihood using them.

 
 

Thanks Suhas

tsubba - 10 September, 2008 - 23:28

Thanks Suhas for a nice report. BTW did anyone talk about governance?

Great comment by Murali on Nano Auto-taxi

Devesh - 11 September, 2008 - 06:06

Murali, great and hilarious comments on the Nano auto-taxis, and linking it to Tata bus service. ROTFL.

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Comments on Day 1

srkulhalli - 10 September, 2008 - 16:50

Firstly, I will not be able to attend tommorow. So if somebody wants to go in my place pls feel welcome

 

Overall, feelings are mixed. The first half of the day was primarily to familarize with people and get to know their work and the usual inaugration fundas. I think it was time not efficiently spent (given that we have to bunk office !)

I was as eager to meet the Praja folks as much as the transport bigwigs and was happy to meet mcadambi, murali and co. Could get to exchange some notes

THe later presentations were usefull.

There were some ideas thrown about. Like RK Mishra (of Lead India fame) suggest 3 tier structures (roads followed by METRO/expressway followed by road again) to increase capacity. Have a few arguments against it, but one of the problems with such fora is there is not time to take an idea/suggestion to a possible conclusion or at least some kind of action item. Thats kind of frustrating because everything is open ended.

Maybe someday when Praja has enough clout, we should organise an upside down conference. Where aam junta out here present concrete suggests and people from the govt. organisations can counter and explain why they will not work, If it can pass their critique, it should be implemented.

One of the positives that came out is that lot of people are aware and understand the issues at hand. Some of the people have gone in some depth analysing and understanding the problem (a presentation on skywalks comes to mind as well as the BRTS in Ahemdabad). Which is good. We are not the only one who are 'really' thinking !

There were a range of presentations, on METRO, on BDA, BMLTA by Gupta ji, also one on Monorail. This gives a good picture of whats happening. It does appear a lot of things are moving and quite quickly, but only time will tell.

Will continue in a later mail

Suhas

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