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The state of the mobility infrastructure in cities, transport agencies and commute modes — from metro to buses, to cabs to bicycles, with a special focus on sustainability.

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Why are roads being dug up everywhere?

July 7, 2017 Deepa Mohan

At certain places in the city, I’ve seen boards that say Gas Authority of India (GAIL) is providing piped cooking gas to residences, so digging is being done. But at many other places, wholesale digging

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Private concerns should not usurp public spaces as reserved parking

April 30, 2017 Deepa Mohan

In many places in the city, I find signs like this, claiming public space for private, reserved parking. I had brought it to the notice of Corporation Bank on 1st Main, J P Nagar 3rd

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Digging up the roads….

April 23, 2017 Deepa Mohan

At least this dug up part of Bannerghatta Road mentions that natural gas pipelines are being laid.   But in most places, roads are dug up without warning and with no information about why the

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Problem with plastic number “plat”

March 24, 2017 Deepa Mohan

Intrigued by the subject title? I am writing about the fact that the new plastic number plates on cars are, very frequently broken off during even small impacts with obstacles, leading to number plates that

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Collection racket at NICE road toll booths

March 7, 2017 Deepa Mohan

On the NICE Road, I have been recently noticing people (apparently employed by those who collect the tolls) who approach cars stuck in the queue, asking if they want to pay the toll to them

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Malpractices in collecting toll on NICE Road

January 2, 2017 Deepa Mohan

Yesterday (Sun, 1st Jan 2017) , at about 7.30pm, we drove on to the NICE Road (now it’s the NECE Road) at the Mysore Road junction,  and there were long queues of cars waiting to

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Identifying Whitefield’s most congested stretches using Google traffic data

November 25, 2016 Whitefield Rising

Are you frustrated by traffic delays in Bengaluru? Do you know how much time you and others are wasting due to traffic jams! While everyone in Bengaluru complains about the traffic problems of the city,

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The ordinary & the everyday : street corners at Russell market

November 18, 2016 Kiran Keswani

On the afternoon of 28th april 2014, I had set myself the task of observing two street corners at either end of Noronha road at Russell market in Shivajinagar – a corner at the Broadway

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Usurping public roads for private parking

May 15, 2016 Deepa Mohan

I’ve written before on the practice many organisations indulge in, in appropriating the space in front of their buildings as ‘reserved’ parking spaces for themselves. I think the problem is assuming large proportions and the

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Lose-lose propositions on public expenditure need to change

March 10, 2016 Ashwin Mahesh

For the first time, I feel that the long-sought Commuter Rail System is within reach. The state government appears willing to fund this in the Budget, and an initial round of money should help create

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Silver Chariots at Gayatri Vihar…

March 5, 2016 Deepa Mohan

It’s always nice to see the variety of vehicles in Bangalore, but surely this silve chariot, parked outside the gates of Gayatri Vihar (the new board says Sheesh Mahal…sheesh!) takes the traffic cake!   I

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The economics of roads: Parking

February 3, 2016 Ashwin Mahesh

Who has the right to park on the street? For how long? And at what price? These are questions that every city faces, and universally they have come up with some practical ways of answering

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The economics of roads: Are we missing the bus?

February 2, 2016 Ashwin Mahesh

Half the city of Bengaluru travels using 6,500 buses. The other half uses 55 lakh vehicles. This data points so obviously to what we should be doing, but unfortunately, we insist on spending enormous amounts

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Reality check on the new helmet rule

February 1, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Recently, the Bangalore Traffic Police made it mandatory for pillion riders to wear helmets. It’s been a law, for some years now, for two-wheeler drivers to wear them. Here’s a family I snapped…   This

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The economics of roads – Part 1

January 28, 2016 Ashwin Mahesh

Vittal Mallya Road was built about five years ago. When it was built, it was proposed as a higher order of design than the roads that BBMP usually builds. The difference consists of three key

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