Namma Auto initiative - Updates :)

veeracb - 24-FEB-2009

[See this post for details of Namma Auto initiative. Here are some updates on it.]

Traffic Management and urban planning

psaram42 - 24-FEB-2009

Urban Planning for sustainable transport Infrastructure is a challenging task in a fast growing population economy as ours.

Benniganahalli bridge work underway

srinidhi - 24-FEB-2009

Finally!! http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Bangalore/Underbridge-road-on-NH-4-to-be-widened/articleshow/4179483.cms

Any idea if the pedestrians are taken care of?? If not, we need to immediately get their attention on this!

Illegal driving

psaram42 - 24-FEB-2009

I have wondered many times how people drive in the opposite direction in one way designated roads un-punished. The following article may be of interest in this connection which describes a similar situation in UK.

“Motoring offences are going unpunished across much of London because of an extraordinary loophole.”

 

Car Fuel Subsidised

Naveen - 23-FEB-2009

One of my danish colleagues had remarked that our country, instead of helping the poor & taxing the rich, was subsidising the car users with lower fuel costs since all oil imports were being sold at lesser price than what they actually cost in India.

"Only God can save Bangalore's pedestrians" (DSC00410.JPG)

s_yajaman - 23-FEB-2009

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"Only God can save Bangalore's pedestrians" (DSC00414.JPG)

s_yajaman - 23-FEB-2009

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"Only God can save Bangalore's pedestrians" (DSC00413.JPG)

s_yajaman - 23-FEB-2009

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"Only God can save Bangalore's pedestrians"

s_yajaman - 23-FEB-2009

So said Dr. Subramanya sometime in Dec 2007.  It seems that pavements are optional in Bangalore.  BBMP can spend 100s of crores on tarring roads, acquiring land for useless road widening (check out the stretch just after Domlur leading to Command Hospital), building flyovers with signals on top of them, etc etc, but has little money to spend on building and maintaining pavements.

Business of Governance

murali772 - 23-FEB-2009

With concepts like Autonomy, Sustainable growth, Forward Planning, HRD, etc becoming buzz-words in management circles, government babu’s couldn’t quite stomach the idea of being left out.