The path of least resistance

02/07/09 03:10 - psaram42

To day while crossing the 100 feet road in Indiranagar I heard an elderly person advising an elderly couple to avoid walking on 100 ft road, referring to the recent accident at 100 ft road. The man remarked that they were well aware of the incident. He seemed not to appreciate the advice.

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metro north south extension maps

02/06/09 19:17 - bcsagar

The maps for Bengaluru metro North south extension are put in their website. http://www.bmrc.co.in/news.html Lots of people living adjacent to kanakapura road will be losing land. Though its a right way forward to decongest these areas, the project may get mired with litigations and get delayed. We need services of DMRC chief E. Sreedharan to progress through obstacles.

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Bangalore - Governance Reforms

02/06/09 04:14 - silkboard

Growth pains of Bangalore lead to demands for urban governance reforms to bring more local participation and autonomy to the urban area referred to as the Bangalore Metropolitan Region. Expanding BMP to Bruhat BMP via bringing adjoining CMCs within the fold of this Bangalore MEtropolitan Region was the first step.

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Better toll collection method - BMIC Peripheral Road

02/06/09 02:50 - s_yajaman

Here is a suggestion for Mr.Kheny on toll collection on the BMIC Peripheral Road.  His current method can be improved quite a bit to ensure that the main expressway has free moving traffic (this is an access controlled Expressway and ought to be signal free).

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ABIDe's Bengaluru Governance Act: Basics getting in place?

02/05/09 20:13 - idontspam

ABIDe ... has stressed on creation of a structure that would become the local planning authority for the city and the metropolitan region. Besides this ABIDe’s focus of citizen centric governance has been further enhanced by the proposal of a comprehensive development and co-ordinated execution of developmental projects. See: ABIDe presents Governance Bill

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User Experience Design Proposal for Praja

02/05/09 17:20 - rahulkjha

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Lessons from Mumbai

02/05/09 13:42 - rs

I just returned from a trip to Mumbai and was quite impressed by how much the city has improved in the last one year. While of course most of the city is still in really bad shape large parts have been improved in several ways

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"Signal free" Hosur Road: opportunity or nightmare?

02/05/09 06:35 - Transmogrifier

Just caught this in the news; BBMP's plans to convert Hosur road to a Bellary road like "signal free" stretch (read more here).

This is another series of traffic engineering nightmares just waiting to happen (narrow underpasses, plain bad design, non-existent pedestrian infrastructure). Ironically, they actually have cited Bellary Road as the model to emulate. There must be some way to get in on this and at least attempt to get things done more holistically. RTI the design plans? Another meet with BBMP? Two things that I could immediately think of:

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External Links (related work)

02/04/09 04:37 - Ravi_D

This consolidation is a set of links to related work available on the web.

> Two PowerPoint presentations by Das GV on AuthorStream:

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Meeting near KR Puram bridge (Feb 7)

02/03/09 09:40 - silkboard

One suggestion from Safe Passage folks (CKannan, psaram, sheragu) was to organize a street event at the spot. Lets try it this Saturday (Feb 7, 10 AM). This isn't a protest - no holding-placards or slogan shouting type of stuff. Lets do some street photography, scan the area for all possible violations of (IRC) road building, design, signage standards, discuss solutions on the spot.

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