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#ABetterHebbal Challenge: Citizens pitch ideas for improving public transport around Hebbal

August 29, 2019 News Desk

#ABetterHebbal Challenge was launched in consultation with BMRCL and DULT as a part of CiFoS’ umbrella for high impact, long-term city wide campaign called #ABetterBangalorean. Hebbal, a fast developing suburb was identiﬁed for the pilot.

Discussion on cab aggregators and their impact on mobility and livelihoods

August 22, 2019 News Desk

Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike, a bus commuters’ rights forum, is having a public discussion on the impact that cab aggregators like Ola, Uber have on mobility and livelihoods on 23rd August. Researchers on mobility, the

Early morning musings….

November 9, 2018 Deepa Mohan

While walking home from my daughter’s, I caught the sunlight, slanting in beams in the dusty morning air: Ironic that it’s the pollution in our air which shows up the shafts of sunlight! The scene

Sustainable Bengaluru is a pipe dream until rest of Karnataka develops

July 3, 2018 Ashwin Mahesh

Bangalore’s struggles are not due to lack of expertise or new ideas. We’ve tried those, with only limited success. What is needed instead is faith in the right institutions and processes, and realising that until

Misuse of public roads for parking vehicles

September 18, 2017 Deepa Mohan

Our roads are public, and parking, where it is legal, should be available to all. But our vehicle users and and homeowners both seem to think that the parking space is something they have ownership

New dawn in the land of chaotic traffic and spicy food

July 25, 2014 Christopher Martin Lopaze

My memory of arriving in Bengaluru is as fresh in my mind as the sweat on my brow was as I exited my plane at the Bangalore Airport about 1 am on July 1st. The