Pedestrian skywalk at KR Puram Ring Road chaos, finally

03/07/10 18:44 - silkboard

I am not a fan of skywalks (prefer regular ped-signals, or underpass), but the chaos that this place is - Outer Ring Road/Old Madras Road junction near Tin Factory, K R Puram - a pedestrian skywalk to cross 8 lanes of thick traffic should help. After our last round of complaints etc, the pedestrian signals had been operating for some time, they still are - either the light turns red, or cops stop traffic to let pedestrians cross. The skywalk (such a late arrival) is perhaps part of signal-free ORR project.

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KR Puram bus bhelter is getting ready

03/07/10 08:03 - Sunil Kumar

I would like to share a Good News. THe BMTC Bus Shelter is getting ready & feel in the next 1 week it should be ready. Thanks a lot to the BMTC authorities it comes as a boom for public in this blazing summer season. Also would like to thank the Praja team in this inititave to help the public of Bangalore lead a little comfortable life.

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Taking Mobilicity Forward

03/06/10 06:52 - admin123

Writing in a request to Mobilicity project members to take the concept forward via series of small events, or otherwise. To some extent Bus Day itself came out of Mobilicity efforts, the concept was seeded during Mobilicity meetings.

Jenny and others have a few ideas

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Commuter Rail - attention local news journalists

03/06/10 03:51 - silkboard

Now that we have a window opening for Commuter Rail Services, we need to spread solid awareness about the possibilities and issues. Towards that, members of this Praja project are making an appeal to media personnel. Please carry informative and detailed reports on possiblities, plans and success factors for commuter rail services for Bengaluru. We are promising all help - we will spend time with you to write them, or if you are okay, even write the details for you.

Please contact any one of (vinod_shankar, Sanjeev, Raghu Nandana M, Naveen, silkboard) us, and we will sit with you to write the detailed and informative stories.

Our support will be on first come first served basis, and we look forward to support from one or more wide circulation newspapers of Karnataka.

Support this project, and help Bengaluru take a big step towards solving its huge problem of transportation and internal connectivity.

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What will make Bus Day a better success?

03/06/10 03:22 - kbsyed61

We all are looking for answer to one question. How can BMTC make the Bus Day a better success? The success being large numbers taking the bus on Bus day? Praja survey and poll has already given the answers to this question. One important factor that is eluding the Bus Day is, TRUST from citizens of Namma Bengaluru.

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Screening of the documentary - Water and a City

03/05/10 17:32 - sanjayv

 Screening of the documentary - Water and a City by filmmaker Swati Dandekar

Date: March 6th 2010

Time: 4:30 pm

Centre for Education and Documentation

No. 7, 8th Main , 3rd phase
Domlur 2nd Stage
Bangalore – 560071

Map to CED (PDF)

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Skype Meeting - Plans for April Bus Day support

03/05/10 15:00 - kbsyed61

The Bus Day is an interesting event that presents wonderful opportunity for communities like PRAJA to grab and show case their concern and willingness to take 2 steps forward.

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April Bus Day - date changed to 7th

03/05/10 04:34 - silkboard

Can we try something different this time? Get celebrities in? Request some radio channels to publicize the event?

Watch for and join some planing meetings prior to this Bus Day. If you been watching so far, BMTC is here to help, listen and act. Use Bus Day as the medium to give constructive feedback.

Take the Bus, its your city, and your environment.

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March 4 Bus Day - New shuttles - Bagmane, Indiranagar, Domlur, Koramangala

03/02/10 18:03 - vinod_shankar

BMTC is announcing new local shuttle routes for March 4 Bus Day. Instead of smaller multiple local feeder loops, we have a largish loop covering Indiranagar, Domlur and Koramangala. Frequency promised is 10 minutes, so that will help.

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BTRAC, it is 2010 - report card for Traffic?

03/02/10 17:19 - silkboard

BTRAC-2010, does the phrase ring a bell? It is a Rs 350 crore (max) worth project funded 2006 through 2010 to reduce congestion and better manage traffic in the city.

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