Open spaces and parks in residential layouts to shrink!!!

murali772 - 19-JUL-2016

The Legislative Assembly adopted the Karnataka Urban Development Authorities Bill, which among other things seeks to reduce the area reserved for parks and open spaces in residential layouts to be developed by urban development authorities.

Govt has no interest to take this project forward

Sanjeev - 17-JUL-2016

Where is the Governance at State and Center ???

Railways have no plans to de-congest city railway infrastructure. Last 10 to 15 years, railways did not invest any thing for development in Bangalore.

Begur - neglected history of Bengaluru!

srinidhi - 10-JUL-2016

So how did the Bangalore name come about? There are various interesting stories floating around..

Planning traffic during Metro construction on ORR

srinidhi - 29-JUN-2016

Which Metro Route To Airport Is Better?

Naveen - 25-JUN-2016

No decision has been taken yet for a metro route to airport. As per latest reports, BMRC is keen on the Thannisandra-Bagalur route (past Nagawara) since it saves on distance and since there is pressure to include airport connectivity by metro rail as part of phase-2 itself.

Is this the route to "Smart Bengaluru"?

murali772 - 21-JUN-2016

Mid last week, I received a whatsapp message, from the local community group, stating as below:

Please kind attention !!!!!!!

Steel Flyover from Rajbhavan to Hebbal - Political Objectives rules over public Utility

kbsyed61 - 21-JUN-2016

The news about GOK's brazen attempt to go ahead with the 6.7 KM STEEL FLYOVER project connecting Rajbhavan to Hebbal is hogging all the news headlines in past few weeks.. Barring few, everyone from citizens to architects, Urban Planners to Activists are up in arms against this project. But nothing seems to deter the state government from going ahead with the project.

No Trees for city streets??

srinidhi - 4-JUN-2016

Ranganath Swamy, Assistant Conservator of Forests, BBMP Forest Cell, said the existing roads were being constantly used and re-used for infrastructure projects, making trees vulnerable in the city. As a result, saplings can be planted only in “closed spaces” like educational institutions, fenced government premises and clubs. 

Metro Speed in Buses & Commuter Rail - Way to increase public transit capacity handling

Vasanth - 1-JUN-2016

With the recent introduction of  Namma Metro E-W corridor, lot of fanfare from media as well as public. The line is already takng 1,30,000 passengers. One end of the line, people are parking their vehicles and boarding Metro, while the other end if they are not IT crowd not working in Whitefield or Eastern Outer Ring Road, such as Vidhana Soudha / MS Building, they are benefitted.

A (P)resident's blog. Part 2(Out of Many): Beginning towards Clean Green Community

wgwwd - 22-MAY-2016

We usually meet every Sunday morning for #cleangreenround. It has been running for than 5 years now. We started much before concept of "swatch bharath" by politicitical inititiave. And we are sustaining ! What do we do in it? Simple, Do a "shrama daana" ( (donation of body effort). Clean up the mess (plastic and other trash) dumped within our area by public.