Tatasky - Eng, Hindi, Tamil, ashtay!

swamy - 31-AUG-2008

Watch tatasky? Sit and watch cartoons with your children. Press green button on the remote. You can now select the audio in your favirote language. This option is not available most of the time. But whenever it is available, Engilsh, Hindi and Tamil, ashtay! No kannada, yaake?

Tatasky doesn't want to do good business in Karnataka?

Tatasky thinks only Tamil speaking population are demanding, baaki janaa not?

Tatasky has competetion from Sun, which is based in Tamilnadu, so care more for Tamil than Kannada, or Malayalam?

Ejipura Main Road tormented and ready to fall

honey - 31-AUG-2008

Its been 3 years since I have been living in Ejipura. The transition I have seen so far of the main road starting from Ejipra Signal ending at Vivek nagar PS, is Terrible... earlier when I used to travel conditions were bad but not worst. As of now, the condition is as follows:

BATF model - love it, or hate it?

silkboard - 30-AUG-2008

In the midst of reams of paper devoted to potholes and sticky roads (come rains, and newsmedia remembers road quality issues) I caught two tiny paragraphs devoted to things that may deserve Prajagale's attention. Our state government has created a new BATF (remember it?) like body. The "Agenda for Bengaluru Infrastructure Development" team is headed by an Rajya Sabha MP Mr Rajiv Chandrashekhar (Convener), and other members include:

Public Transport - Bus service algorithm / checklist

asj - 30-AUG-2008

My views on BRT have been known for a while on Praja.

I am not anti or pro any model. I believe a place has a thing and a thing has a place. First we must be able to justify BRTS on basis of need, then it should be implementable on given corridor (just being able to implement without demonstrated need is no good).

Here is an algorithm which I would use -

Trademark Bengaluru Road

sandeepmr - 29-AUG-2008

Spotted a video on Flickr uploaded by some visitor probably on his way to the airport. I don’t recognize the road in the video (not because I have been out of Bangalore for some time now), because all the roads and more importantly the road conditions are strikingly similar nowadays.

Quick observations:

Instead of BMTC, if TVS/ TATAs were providing public bus transport services, would you switch to using them?

murali772 - 29-AUG-2008

* Yes * No

Praja in my town

admin123 - 29-AUG-2008

Praja is a platform that spans several cities and towns. If you do not find your city among the ones where praja has a presence, this page is for you!

If there is not a page for your city already, it is as easy as sending a message to the administrators of Praja requesting one. It does not take much time for us to create a sub-site for your city/town.

BMLTA - Need support?

Ravi_D - 29-AUG-2008

I was looking at Singapore LTA website. Couldn't help dream of a similar authority for B'lore. To my surprise, google found BMLTA. Guys, there is a land transport authority in Bangalore, atleast on paper and GOK rolls!!.

Care. Participate. Know. Change

tsubba - 29-AUG-2008

An inspiring story from HD Kote shows why the geeks will rule the world. The Hindu

A 14-km stretch connecting Bidarahalli with N. Begur in H.D. Kote wore out within a few months after it had been re-laid. The residents, led by a non-governmental organisation, filed an application under the Right to Information Act and found out that the money spent was not proportionate to the work done. They filed a complaint with the Lokayukta and we ordered the road to be re-built, Mr. Hegde said.

Map your world with Google

murali772 - 28-AUG-2008

You can mark your apartment, your office, your school, the shops in your neighbourhood or elsewhere, landmarks, the roads that you know. You can state whether a road is a one-way, how many traffic lights there are on the road. Indeed, you can mark anything. For more, click on:
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JQkcvMjAwOC8wOC8yOCNBcjAxODAy&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom

Muralidhar Rao