Posts : Bangalore

Bangalore Apartments - How safe are they?

Vasanth - 26-OCT-2008

Bangalore is becoming like apartment city. So many apartments and many apartments have overtaken the Utility Building in terms of number of floors. How safe are they ? How well are they constructed ?

Meeting with BMRC MD, Mr N Sivasailam

admin123 - 25-OCT-2008

Update: Oct 30, 12:30 pm - Meeting confirmed, 12-15 of us can go.

Suggestion of Revision of train services between Bangalore and Mysore after track doubling

Vasanth - 25-OCT-2008

Mysore Bangalore track doubling is going to be completed by 2011. But, this is not the end of the woes to the travellers. The effective utilization of the doubled track by railways is the key to success.

Open Threat

sandeepmr - 24-OCT-2008

Quote from article about kannada display boards by Nov 1 

"On Oct. 31 night, around 10,000 KRV workers will go round the city checking display boards of shops and if they find English- only boards, they will either bring them down or blacken them." 

Parliamentary committee recommends UDF witdrawal, reopening HAL

Devesh - 24-OCT-2008

In what is sure to be a shock, to both the BIAL and HIAL consortia, the Deccan Chronicle reports, the parliamentary standing committee on transport, tourism and culture, on Thursday October 23, recommended immediate withdrawal of user development fees (UDF) being charged by Hyderabad and Bengaluru airports.

Some fancy ideas for mass transport

srkulhalli - 24-OCT-2008

Got these when I was browsing around. Kind of exotic - enjoy wwwa.vito.be/FADC/report1/10_Ankur%20Bhatnagar_UniModal.pdf http://www.unimodal.net/

BTIS live traffic information

thampan - 24-OCT-2008

View Bangalore traffic live at any time : http://btis.in/cameras/all.php Bangalore Transport Information System (BTIS) showing 34/50 cameras across Bangalore. Click on location to see current live snapshot … The resolution is pretty good...comparable to those in european towns -------- got the above mail and thought will share with praja about the site

Mobility empowers

murali772 - 24-OCT-2008

Automobility enervates, because more cars mean more congestion, less mobility

India gets on the bus

murali772 - 24-OCT-2008

After years of building roads and flyovers, the Delhi government has decided to change tack to address congestion on its roads: invest in new, sleek buses to restricted private vehicles. Other cities have followed suit.

Single body for all transportation works - Pune does it

silkboard - 24-OCT-2008

Learning from mistakes and gaps at other cities - Pune could be doing that. Read this morning, with great interest that Pune has created a special purpose vehicle called Pune Infrastructure Development Corporation (PIDC). Quoting this story (PIDC cleared), this body will be: