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Written By admin123 - 30 June, 2009
Bangalore BBMP Elections Need Help
Dear members, let us use this post to collect our expectations from parties in the coming BBMP elections. Please post short lists (your top 5) via comments. After a few comments, we will collect and merge the list, and create a poll/survey on the site to determine the most popular issues for BBMP elections.
Needless to say, issues have got to be local. And please post just your top 5, short and sweet, avoid essays on why and how (save those for separate post). That way, it will be easier for a moderator to merge the lists and create the 15-20 issues that we will put up in the survey.
Thanks for your help.
COMMENTS
Let me try one.
- May be one more revision of byelaws, but after that, please start with enforcements
- Clear lake-bed encorachments, and more lung spaces in the city
- Pedestrian amenities, consistent, whether in City or new CMC areas
- Support dedicated-bus lane plans on select corridors
- Incorporate recycling programs in waste management system, like Hyderabad/ITC's WOW (Wealth out of Waste)
[Frankly, I don't know what BBMP can and can't do, so it took time to write my top 5]
Here are my top five recommendations
Rithesh - 30 June, 2009 - 18:34
1. Implementation of the 74th amendment in totality - decentralization and involvement of RAs and civic groups in ward level committees and decision making structure.
2. Introduction of comprehensive vaccination program for all urban poor families and better healthcare facilities in govt hospital in the city.
3. Environment - stop all tree cutting for road widening purposes and re-establish Bangalore's lost identity - trees (I hate these european styled parks with only lawns and no trees). Clearing all lake bed encroachments (please save Hebbal Nagavara lake system - it is being encroached upon).
4. Transportation - BMLTA to be established with real powers. Pedestrian friendly infrastructure, emphasis on public transport and cycling lanes.
5. Revamp solid waste management system and garbage collection system.
a. Level and clean pavements - for starters at least along all the arterial roads.
b. Complete overhaul of garbage collection. It is simply disgusting to see garbage just thrown along the roads
c. Lake rejuvenation
d. Addition of green spaces
e. Eliminate corruption within the department - many problems will get solved (big one!!!)
Srivathsa
1. Enforce (and revamp where needed) bye laws related to Building / Parking / Layout formation. Enforce in such a way that no one dares to deviate - ever.
2. Get out of road building exercise, instead make what we have better - create recessed bus bays, widen junctions, create turn lanes, ban slow moving vehicles at certain parts of the day... just ensure the lanes we have are really available for 30kmph largely uninhibited driving between well coordinated signals.
3. Create a (or better still - work with an external) non-political urban planning intellectual group; for generation / implementation of hollistic recommendations. Use them for 1, 2, 4 & 5.
4. Concentrate on Sustainance Aspects - Pedestrian Facilities, Lakes, Gardens, Pollution
5. Talk to people - Change organization culture to one that involves citizens and respond to them.
Ravi
1. Mandatory disabled friendly pedestrian & cycling facilities
2. Quality road laying with mechanised cut and relay. Mandatory IRC standards
3. Improved drainage with zero stagnation. Block sewage entering lakes.
4. Consolidate and go vertical to increase density and make space for mandatory urban forests in each ward
5. Save Hebbal and Nagwara by leaving it alone as a green belt.
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