Posts : Bangalore

Urban Disaster/Risk Management Workshop, ESG

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 4-DEC-2009

Environment Support Group  invites your participation in a workshop on Fundamentals of Reducing Risk and Managing Urban Disasters

RTO - pulls & pressures

idontspam - 4-DEC-2009

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1000 Cr free of Cost

bharatm - 3-DEC-2009

 Summary: If one has 1000 Cr per annum, can he/she help to improve the traffic chaos of the city. Let us just explore what all can be done to improve the traffic chaos. An important point we have 1000 Cr free of cost to do that. Read more to find out how.  

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PUSH for BRT in Bangalore

vinod_shankar - 2-DEC-2009

According to CTTP report 2007, 14 BRT corridors for bangalore was identified. There has not been any movement on this front, not even a feasibility study on the corridors mentioned. The corridors mentioned are..

sanjaynagar road widening urgent requirement

venkateshhari - 2-DEC-2009

Off late, with the increase in number of buses and also cars, there is huge traffic jam From Bhoopasand-nagashettihally road and also at RMS Near Foodworld.  Has any one observed this is there any solution to end the problem  We are every day late to office due to this problem.

Join hands to write a Transport Policy Proposal for Bengaluru

admin123 - 1-DEC-2009

Post Mobilicity, we, as a community, have this opening to create a Transport Policy proposal for Bengaluru using not just that draft we saw last week, but several such proposals that may exist today. What if we join hands to create a concrete document (a type of "crowdsourcing"), and try this as our first focused proposal creation exercise.

Praja in Sulekha.com

psaram42 - 1-DEC-2009

 praja.in is ranked number 198658 in the world according to the Alexa Traffic Rank.

Street topography

idontspam - 1-DEC-2009

 Here is a typical 2 lane street residential street, not too dissimilar from the ones we have in Bangalore. Notice the following

1. Pedestrian refuge even on a narrow street

2. Pedestrian crossings & frequency (second one at the top of the turn)

3. Bus stand and visible indicators for the same

Citizen participation in policies

idontspam - 1-DEC-2009

(The mayor) told officials and residents of his city that "it's not that complex. We can be doing a lot more of this and in a quicker way if you adopt and embrace this proposal.We are counting on all of you. If we're successful here...if the community all agrees that this works...

LED street lights are here!

blrsri - 1-DEC-2009

 The infamous richmond road flyover is always blamed for everything...First signal-on-flyover in the world..etc

But these days its in the news for good reasons..here you can see one of the first implementations of the LED streetlighting..