Bellandur - Varthur wetland encroachments

15-FEB-2019 03:38:13 PM -- srinidhi

The saga of encroachments and land grabbing on Bellandur lake is very painful to say the least. Its a prime example of how a historical waterbody has been turned to waste just because of human greed. Land grabbers are the worst of the lot who first encraoch and then 'create' paperwork...

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Fear and Tender S.U.R.E

21-MAR-2019 04:17:00 AM -- srinidhi

First would like to start with saying that Tender SURE was indeed a ground breaking effort, literally too, in many ways. Uniform Carriage way and few other principles which are new and commendable.

However the original Tender SURE and the other versions thereafter like the BBMP version of  TenderSURE 'Lite'...

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Bengaluru footpath issues/solution

13-APR-2019 06:58:00 AM -- srinidhi

Bangalore footpaths are unusable at many places and the result is that pedestrians are forced onto the roads where they run a risk of getting hit by vehicular traffic. Many interesting videos are done to show this problem. A recent one by Malleshwaram Socail  is here below:

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Sanity at Silkboard!

23-JAN-2019 01:24:13 PM -- srinidhi

Now that there are land acquistion and the tendering issues to be resolved to sort the grand silkboard road plan, which BMRCL attempted to implement. Also, the double decker work is still on, starting from the marenahalli end.

There is a need a less ambitious practical solution which can be...

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BBMP seeks public help to fix plan violations

5-AUG-2019 12:16:14 PM -- srinidhi

It seems straight out of the STASI manual from earstwhile East Germany, where folks within families were known to spy on each other. But however weird it seems, BBMP plan to get public/neighbours to check on by-law violations might just as well work. The details of the BBMP plan is...

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What Type Of City Do We Want?

27-AUG-2018 11:30:11 AM -- Naveen

Unmanageable traffic forever - Is that what we want in our City?

"Experience is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it again"

The proponents for elevated freeways planned to be built, cutting across the city claim the following benefits:

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Trees and the city..

25-AUG-2018 12:03:34 AM -- srinidhi

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Pod Taxi kills a metro route..

9-JUL-2018 03:51:16 AM -- srinidhi

The 'new' budget that the CM presented recently has tried to make way for the weird Pod Taxi project which was proposed by the earlier government.The route picked for the conceptual PRT system is starting from Trinity circle(MG rd) and heading towards HAL aiport road.

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GCPP assignment - 1

8-JUN-2018 11:41:30 AM -- murali772

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White topping - projected panacea?

6-MAR-2018 12:33:28 AM -- srinidhi

Call it election frenzy or a plan being put in place to 'address' major public woe of having a city with bad roads, the govt is in a frenzy to white top major roads in the city.

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