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MaheshK - 5-NOV-2017
As we know that the air pollution issues for the city is gaining attention. Yes, there is pollution and we should not deny it. What I have seen so far is many individuals are doing work on air quality issues without any knowledge or background. Thanks to Google, they spend an hour reading about air pollution and they have become experts. There was a time when solid waste was a buzzword. |
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Multi Modal Integration : Metro, Railways, BMTC & Foot paths Sanjeev - 17-SEP-2017
As we have seen Ph-1 of Metro open to public without any consideration for multimodal integration, other end slowly suburban rail taking traction, People are using over crowded Metro with poor integration to change over from one mode of publci transport system to other. Even we do not have single mobility card for Bangalore urban transport. |
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Double Decker Mayhem on RV rd - EC metro route srinidhi - 12-AUG-2017
Bangalore has borne the brunt of bad engineering when it comes to road works. Thousands of crores are being spent mindlessly on projects with no actual value. The flyovers projects are the worst of the implementations, there are very few bridges which have proved their worth. A recent report on that can be seen here: |
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srinidhi - 16-JUL-2017
FInally BMRCL has published the UG route with station details of the new red line coming up between Gotigere and Nagavara. THe line goes UG at Dairy circle and has 12 stations on that stretch. The details are at the link below which was published recently |
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DIG (Prisons) Smt D Roopa, IPS, my latest nominee for Namma Begaluru award murali772 - 14-JUL-2017
Excerpts from a ToI report:
DG (Prisons) HN Sathyanarayana Rao - "What she is saying is not a new discovery".
DIG (Prisons) Smt D Roopa - "He might say this is not a new discovery.
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Vasanth - 27-JUN-2017
Ever since the launch of Metro, especially after East West Purple line was fully implemented, Bengaluru is saying 'Metro, Metro'. BMTC commuters, office bus users and many car drivers have switched over to Metro. Ridership has already touched 1.8 Lakhs on purple line. |
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Bangalore Commuter Rail / Suburban Rail : GOK and GOI equally responsibile for not implementing Sanjeev - 25-JUN-2017
GOK is not serious on suburban rail by looking at last 7-8 yrs progress on suburban rail. DPR is pending & No follow ups from GOK with Railway Officials. |
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Foreigners in city..deport or not! srinidhi - 27-MAY-2017
The recent arrest of the pakistani's in the city has raised lot of concerns at least in the press and questions too. Its a known fact that the porous nepal borders are an easy route for any one and everyone to enter India. |
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srinidhi - 25-APR-2017
Objections to steel flyovers and cutting of trees has apparently led the governament to look taking vehicular traffic underground! |
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Namma Railu - GOK cabinet approves 345 Crs as part of the MoU kbsyed61 - 16-FEB-2017
Yesterday Feb 14, 2017, Karnataka state cabinet approved the 345 Crs funds per the MoU that they had inked with railways last month. To begin with the MoU has 2 projects on suburban rail: |