Asian Games in Bengaluru

11/19/10 12:37 - santsub

We have already discussed this on Praja long time ago about how other cities in India should shape up for sporting  mega events. Here is a media published article on Bengaluru being a strong candidate for the next Asian games (2019)

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/114001/asian-games-blore.html

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Public Meeting on Jayamahal/ Bellary Road widening

11/19/10 10:56 - vinay_sreenivasa

Public Meeting on Jayamahal/ Bellary Road widening

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Customer Service at Indian Oil petrol bunks

11/19/10 10:19 - Bheema.Upadhyaya

Recently I had interaction with Indian Oil help desk due to my observation at filling station under IOC logo. Here is what happened and outcome. Should not consider this post against that specific filling station, most of the observations are common and not only experience by me, but most of us.

Location : Singasandra, Hosur Road 

Observations :

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diwali crakers global warming

11/19/10 09:15 - hemaraj

I am still pondering in the point of no crakers for diwali.

I have lived all these years every diwali enjoying crakers and festive mood with sweets during diwali.

for the past 4 years after reading a lot about global warming , i had decided we should not burst crakers.

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'Suggestions for BESCOM'

11/18/10 15:39 - silkboard

Action seems to be picking up at BESCOM, with a new Power Minister few months ago, and a new commissioner now. Pasting below, from an email exchange, some ideas for BESCOM and Energy situation in Bangalore, from Mr. MC.

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Re-Imagining the World-Class City

11/18/10 12:26 - chris.kurian

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements [www.iihs.ac.in] announces an Institute on 'Re-Imagining the World-Class City' at Bengaluru from the 3rd to the 9th of January 2011.

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MMTS Service Improvements and what about Bangalore Commuter Rail

11/18/10 12:16 - Sanjeev

MMTS services of  Hyderabad  has doing great improvements, you can see here how the services have been improved over the last few months. For Bangalore & its suburbs  Commuter Rail is still distant dream unless we push our Politicians hard either BJP / Congress

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digital tree census

11/18/10 08:19 - murali772

A group of students have been working on a street tree census in Bangalore. This team has now completed a count of all the street trees in one particular ward and put up the details online - here.

Worthwhile effort, I should think - may be prajagalu would like to join in.

Muralidhar Rao

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Bicycling infrastructure for Last mile & Intermodal connectivity

11/17/10 04:16 - idontspam

Introduction

Need

{1} Diminishing mobility and accessibility, worsening health and environmental situation, lack of transport facilities and infrastructure, poor planning and traffic management and neglect of  multi-modal transport systems. In Indian cities the share of NMT at peak hours ranges from 30 up to 70%; trips undertaken by bicycle acco

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CBD Bike sharing route & locations

11/17/10 03:26 - idontspam

 Number: Approx 20 bikes at each location to start with and increase on uptake

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