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ss87 - 27-JUL-2010
Last week I waited at Kanakapura road for a bus to Banashankari. There came a AS1(Atal sarige 1) and I boarded it. This bus had some advantages: 1. The fare charged between Jaraganahalli and Banashankari, a distance of about 2 1/2 kms was just Rs.2/- in a situation where all other buses charge Rs.4/- |
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Practical Road standards for manageable Cross Sections psaram42 - 27-JUL-2010
A road is not the mere outer visible surface. It is a volume to be precise. [This “Volume” concept is more attractive than conceiving a road as a 3-D object. Thanks to my visit to CSTEP some time back]. Its underbelly is the home of many services essential for the city / place it serves. |
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Isn't it true of our situation too ? E.R. Ramachandran - 27-JUL-2010
Isn't this true of us too? Probably few thosands vs. One Billion++..... |
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Road Lanes - Will it work in India? idontspam - 26-JUL-2010
In a good piece called Why is lane discipline so indisciplined here? Praveen Sood Addl CP, Traffic, Bangalore raises the important question of |
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idontspam - 25-JUL-2010
Browsing through all the posts under the topic of living->environment, I was surprised to find no material around green belt or plan for urban forests etc. Discovered that the so called green topics on this site, are reflex reactions to posts on the traffic & road widening threads. Thought of digging into this concept of green belt which existed in Ramakrishna Hegde's time. |
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idontspam - 18-JUL-2010
Quoting myself from an earlier post "I predict the irrelevance of the auto in the transport scheme within the next 5 years." Nanos may push autos out of B’lore Looks like we dont have to wait 5 years for my prediction |
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Counting the poor - how many do we have? silkboard - 15-JUL-2010
Public Agenda dear, here is that intellectually ruminating discussion we said we will have soon. How many poor people do we have in our country? The debate, and understanding the number is important because the classic quote goes - "you can't fix what you can't measure". If you can't count your poor, you can't check how your poverty alleviation programs are working. Two important things around which disagreements arise are 1) How do you define a poor household? 2) How exactly do you count people using the poverty definition you accept? First of all, the two popular stats that are quoted to start a discussions like this
Some other notable stats: |
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pdk - 14-JUL-2010
This post is in response to criticism that road-widening critics haven't provided alternatives to widening. Two things. 1. Sorry for the extreme illustration, but suppose I find someone committing a murder. I'm not sure that I have to provide an alternative to him and only then try to stop him. 2. I think the people mentioned above have suggested various alternatives. The 'people' say that the problem is a unsustainable number of private vehicles on our roads. Following from that, they have likened road-widening to 'loosening the belt to cure obesity' and recognised that it is a unworkable response to traffic congestion. They have provided following alternatives to resolving traffic congestion. None of these may help by itself. But some combination of them should be tried. The list has been made from the following sources: |
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Corruption and Technologies in BMTC - List of Questions kbsyed61 - 10-JUL-2010
Extending the discussion on Pilferage by BMTC Conductors/Official and taking SBs suggestion for coming up with the list of questions for possible direct answers from BMTC or filing RTI with BMTC. In any case, as a civil city and residents of Bengaluru, it is our duty to hold the powers responsible for all that good and bad happens in public institutions and corporations. BMTC needs to be held responsible and answers should be demanded for all the relevant issues and questions. Let us collate all the questions here. Pls feel free to list the questions via comments under two categories.
REQUEST - Pls do not start discussions on Private vs Public. You may do so by starting a separate post on it.
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Citizen participation in governance idontspam - 7-JUL-2010
Can non IAS/Politico citizens add value to governance? Dozens of dapperly dressed young people gathered to attend a conference entitled, "Exploring Spaces for Young Indians in Government." Suri, who is spending the summer assisting the office of Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communications and Technology, is among the growing ranks of young Indians who are showing an increasing interest in exploring careers in public policy and government - areas in which Indian civil servants have had a historical monopoly. Counter-intuitively, the majority of the attendees were young people comfortably ensconced in private sector jobs. If these two things are anything to go by, then it strongly signals a slow but steady shift in the years and decades to come, towards a younger, more inclusive and level playing field in India's governing fabric, which will ultimately bode well for its nation-building project. |