Cracks showing on Kadugodi overbridge

Sanjeev - 8-MAR-2012

The railway overbridge at Kadugodi junction in Whitefield was to have been completed in 15 months but it took almost four years. One would have expected that extra time to have been translated into better quality. But motorists travelling on the 640-metre bridge have a different story.

New SMART Prize for New Mobility Entrepreneurs

idontspam - 8-MAR-2012

ANNOUNCING MOBI-PRIZE

BESCOM and street lights

srinidhi - 7-MAR-2012

Malur needs Commuter Rail badly

Sanjeev - 6-MAR-2012

Malur example shows how commuter rail will help the people

Hoarding menace - BBMP's helplessness?

silkboard - 5-MAR-2012

Recently, before leaving the city, an expat left behind this 'hoarding' as his thank you note to Bengaluru. Humorous indeed, but to us and BBMP, this should be a hurtful mockery of the way things are out of control on our roads.

How did the BIAL runway deteriorate so fast?

murali772 - 3-MAR-2012

A full scale runway closure is a major event, and for a runway to be closed for "maintenance" implies serious repairs. Serious repairs on a spanking new runway, at a new airport which has commenced operations less than four years ago, clearly implies something extra-ordinary.

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"Sakala" - Wake-Up Call For Babudom?

murali772 - 2-MAR-2012

Beginning today, there is a deadline for all public services: be it a certificate or redressal of a grievance from any government department. If the deadline is not met, the official will be penalized. - - - -  “Enough is enough. We don’t want people running around for services,” the CM pointed out.

Loudspeaker menace

murali772 - 2-MAR-2012

A high court division bench headed by CJ Vikramajit Sen has given a week’s time to the Bangalore police commissioner to explain what action his department has initiated against illegal use of loudspeakers at religious places in the city. “If the same is not given, we will have to call the commissioner,” the bench said.

Information Denial Facilitation Commission

murali772 - 29-FEB-2012

Now, it's a celebrated fact that the TTMC's in Bangalore are the biggest case of mis-use of JNNURM funds, as has more or less been established in this blog.

Elements of Discipline and Safe Driving!

kbsyed61 - 27-FEB-2012

I must confess that for long as millions like others, I too had considered the Knowledge of signs would suffice to instill a sense of driving discipline on roads. Having come to US, where apart from the rudimentary knowledge of road signs, there are other important skills that one needs to acquire and practice it for a true discipline driver.