Posts : Bangalore

Lake 2010

sanjayv - 25-JUL-2010

 First notification of the Lakes 2010 conference in December

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/IISc_Lake2010_India.pdf

Bengaluru Green Belt

idontspam - 25-JUL-2010

 Browsing through all the posts under the topic of living->environment, I was surprised to find no material around green belt or plan for urban forests etc. Discovered that the so called green topics on this site, are reflex reactions to posts on the traffic & road widening threads. Thought of digging into this concept of green belt which existed in Ramakrishna Hegde's time.

BDA - Multi - Story Housing

Ravi_D - 24-JUL-2010

Just came back from another week long Singapore trip. Every time you look at those high rise apartments, can't help wonder how Bangalore would benefit if it had its share. It would have been impossible for Singapore to be that green without them. 

AIMA conference on PPPs - a report

murali772 - 22-JUL-2010

The following is my report on the "All India Management Association (AIMA) Conference on Public Private Partnerships: Issues of Governance", held at Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bangalore, on Friday, the 16th July.

Commuter Rail / Local Trains way to go after Auto fares go up

Sanjeev - 21-JUL-2010

City auto fares likely to go up from Friday

Commuters, brace yourselves to shell out more for your auto trips from Friday.He told Deccan Herald  that a report prepared by the deputy commissioner of police (east) on the quantum of hike to be revised has been submitted to the government.

BMTC - 500k - 600k causing passenger inconvenience

muthusubs - 21-JUL-2010

500k and 600k are the only 2 volvo routes between Silk Board to Vijaynagar and there is a lot of passenger density in this route. As per the BMTC route info, there is a bus every 5 mins in the peak hour between 530 and 730.

Hearing pursuant to the appeal under RTI in the case of the Indiranagar Tree Felling

murali772 - 20-JUL-2010

With the BBMP tree officer remaing silent to the RTI query raised by me on the 10th April, in the matter of the apparently unauthorised tree felling on 100 ft road in Indiranagar (check this), I had sent an appeal to the Commissioner, BBMP, on the 28th June.

Kudachi-Bagalkot Railway project

santoshfs - 20-JUL-2010

Kudachi-Bagalkot Railway project gets nod

BANGALORE: The South Western Railways (SWR) has completed the survey of the recently sanctioned Kudachi-Bagalkot line in a record time and the Railway Board too has approved the survey and entered it in the pink book.

BMTC - Extending the monopoly

idontspam - 18-JUL-2010

Quoting myself from an earlier post "I predict the irrelevance of the auto in the transport scheme within the next 5 years." 

Nanos may push autos out of B’lore

Looks like we dont have to wait 5 years for my prediction

SPV Case Study - Konkan Railway !

kbsyed61 - 17-JUL-2010

These days I am in search of information on working of Special Purpose Vehicle. In this pursuit I have come across many pieces of info available on Internet.