Posts : Bangalore

Will half of Bangalore be evacuated in ten years?

psaram42 - 21-SEP-2013

A Talk by Mr.V.Balasubramanian, former Addl.Chief Secretry of GOK on BOOM CITY OR DOOM CITY - and on the above subject has been arranged by Indian Institute of Public Administration TODAY (21-9-13) at 5 PM Venue: IAS Officers Association, Opp: Hotel Ashraya on Infantry Road beginning.

BRTS, Bus Priority or similar concepts for Bangalore

silkboard - 20-SEP-2013

This is a book page to hold together discussions on BRTS (Bus Rapid Transport System), BPS (Bus Priority System) or similar bus based prioritized transporation systems. Please outline any widely read, discussed, or citizen-conducted research type posts under this page.

Praja Cycle Ride - Thattekere

Ravi_D - 20-SEP-2013

Tomorrow (Saturday, 21/Sept) few Praja members are riding bicycles to Tattekere. All are welcome to join. This is our second outside-the-city, and first relatively long distance ride. First was the one up the Nandi hill, some 25km up and down.

Concrete solution for Blr craters

srinidhi - 19-SEP-2013

The notorious potholes (craters) are back with a bang after the rains and all major and minor roads are full of it to the extent that we need to search for those short stretches of decent roads left.

 

Parking Policy

Ravi_D - 19-SEP-2013

Source: DH

New DULT report based parking policy is accepted by the BBMP concil, unanimousely. 

First and Last Mile connects for BMTC

silkboard - 19-SEP-2013

This is a book page to hold together discussions on these subjects related to BMTC

  • First and Last mile connectivity to BMTC routes
  • Usage of minibuses by BMTC
  • Planning and routing of feeder or local shuttle services by BMTC

BMTC's encouraging mini bus talk - good going Mr Parwez

silkboard - 19-SEP-2013

Amidst all the press that BMTC is getting recently, one thing that caught attention was talk of mini buses, shuttles and feeder routes. As we all know, feeder plans, and solid execution of first/last mile connects can help increase usage of BMTC as well as (future) metro.

Here are the bytes I have picked up (read in print, so don't have links handy, will search and add later)

BIG discussions on FB

srinidhi - 17-SEP-2013


Road Hump Records...

wgwwd - 17-SEP-2013

As said in another post, I tried to create a road hump record using my basic andriod phone which just costed me 6.7k. I just mentioned cost to tell how valuable a phone can be, if it can be used constructively. 

The road humps are plotted in google maps, real time.. Also data can be saved in internet.

BMTC's Trunk & Feeder services

murali772 - 16-SEP-2013

BMTC has at long last announced commencement of the Trunk & Feeder Services (check here), which was what was envisaged when the Big-10 services were started.