Probing public transport stats for Bangalore

09/15/08 04:42 - silkboard

Last we heard (Mr Sharif may have told TOI), BMTC said that public transport accounts for 48% of trips in the city. Another stat from Ministry of Urban Development had put public transport's share in Bangalore to about 35%. So, there we have, a range of 35% to 48%, and we know that in Bangalore, public transport virtually equals BMTC.

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'Jaago Re! One Billion Votes' from Janaagraha and Tata Tea

09/15/08 03:08 - silkboard

Got this on Janaagraha's email group. worth posting, and nice initiative.

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Metro shoddy too?

09/13/08 04:56 - idontspam

They have dumbed down the metro stations originally to make it look straight out of a village. Maybe BMRC is also taking us for a ride. (see the two images)

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Need study for metro projects

09/14/08 03:38 - blrsri

We have seen many projects which are very ill conceived and never catering to the actual needs. These more to satisfy interests of few people!

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Urban transportation - addressable market size: how big?

09/12/08 06:05 - silkboard

I had asked this question at the TransInnova/ BMLTA summit yesterday, and didn't get a good answer, most likely because nobody had a number handy. Local urban transportation is a "problem", and problem equals "opportunity". Why is it that private players are not taking enough interest in lobbying to get access to this market? Policy hurdles would be one reason, but I am curious if the size of the market is being underestimated here. Lets do some numbers, simple and basic.

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Practical governance - need of the hour!

09/12/08 04:42 - nijavaada

We've all been evidence to this. All of us might have stumbled upon this at some point of time.

India is a union of linguistically formed states, and hence governance in India is a matter of managing people of different languages/identities. Even though these remain written truths, there're subtle ways in which our identities have been forcibly compromised with, and attempts to mask various identities under one off identity have been made almost everywhere in the past 61 years of India's existence.

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The 100-days business

09/11/08 13:10 - silkboard

Read a very sensible letter to editor in DH yesterday (forget the name, sorry). It said something I so agree with. Whats this "100 days of government" business? I was disappointed to see Yeddy even trying to list 100-day achievements via newspaper ads. And then media asking for opinions on 100-days. Can a meaningful as well as visible change be caused by a state government in just over three months? Aren't we impatient if we expect that? Doesn't this impatience put pressure on elected folks to do the same short-sighted things that we later

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BBMP - Road Construction

09/11/08 11:40 - Ravi_D

Read this article from CitizenMatters. Interesting. Notice the spec data for road works? Wonder what percent of roads in B'lore adhere to the spec!

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Do we need this?

09/11/08 03:34 - Ravi_D

Have you seen this one?

Apart from Volvo goody, here is something interesting and concerning.

A Rs 1,000-crore, 45-storey interchange terminal where BMTC, KSRTC and Namma Metro services would converge, would come up at the Majestic bus stand, the minister said and added that the construction work on it would begin shortly. 

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TransInnova/BMLTA Transportation Summit - Notes

09/10/08 18:00 - admin123

[Update Sep 17: find all material presented at the summit on BMLTA website - click here]

Placeholder post for notes from those who attended the summit, and to upload/post material presentations etc obtained from the summit.

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