We thank everyone for thier valuable feedback. This is just a platform to bring out ideas and opinions of how to improve the Bangalore infrastructure and not a Poll or a memorandum. Please restrain from making personal attacks. Please note that views/opinions would be published here only if contains the name, email ID and Place of the respondent. We thank everyone who has taken the time and effort to share their views on this major issue.

Dewaker Basnet from Bangalore writes " Thank you for involving me in one of the most pertinent discussions that faces this city.

Sadly enough, day in and day out we have been listening of news of the intellectual capital of Bangalore drifting away from this city. Hyderabad opens its arms for Infosys, Mindtree plans to open operations at Orissa, Biocon chief visions to expand the base beyond Bangalore, Azim Premji silenty delves into the possibility of a future in Pune et al...

This brings us to one of the most important questions " What ails Bangalore?"
Bad roads
Improper planning
No proper drinking water
Political gimmicks
Trivialities in thought ( is the city getting proper roads, good infrastructure, good governance, civic decency and the likes if we change the name from Bangallore to Bengaluru?
Beats me...a rose is a rose is a rose..(William Shakesphere)

So what needs to be done for this city?

Thinking aloud

1. Transportation is a real big thing to be looked into. 1 person in a vehicle double the size of a maruti van plying across the city, more so towards hosur road and whitefield (where we have sizeable amount of NRI's (Newly rich indians) is so much of an inconvinience.
Can people working at places towards Electronic city and ITPL use mass transportation facilities instead of their vehicles to go to office? If it is a matter of prestige can companies provide them good buses instead of the BMTC? AC buses for instances for our dear softy engineers?

2. Improper planning. Will somebody tell me what on devil's mind come to the planners of the road towards electronic city to leave so much of open tunnels beside the roads? Maybe its for the trucks, cars and bikes to dump themselves on an everyday basis.

3. Trees. Where are they oin Bangalore nowadays? Except one 2 plus kms RV road stretch is there any other place in bangalore where we find sufficient lung space to breathe?
Plan to plant more trees so that the next generation will not have to live on artificial oxygen!

4. Civic sense! will somebody tell my fellow north indians to not make Bangalore like UP or Bihar by literally littering whatever they want to in this city. This city is our "karma bhoomi" can we give back something to this city that has gven us so much? Well only if we could treat this city as our own!!

5. Get the metro fast! Should I say more on this?

I am sure you will have more people to comment on various issues that are pertinant to this city.
Hope the bad that spells this city now will get some relief soon.

A proud guy who feels that Bangalore has given him more than he deserves.

Rajeev Maddur from Basavanagudi Bangalore (currently in Michigan USA) - Yes, we need to do something drastic to improve the infrastructure situation in Bangalore.

1. First thing is to improve public transportation & make it very efficient.For this we have to ensure the current Metro Rail project takes off & gets completed on time with the least possible involvement from various politicians who politicize every issue, not keeping in mind the good of the public, our wonderful Bangalore / our beautiful Gandadha Gudi. This will reduce the vehicle population on the roads. This is the model adopted in many US cities successfully. People park their vehicles in the Metro stations & take the train to work.

2. Build more flyovers & ensure development happens in other areas like Whitefield (already happening), Devanahalli, Nelamangala & other surrounding areas. If we have an efficient Rail system which gets people from one place to another quickly, I think most people will want to take the trains. (By taking the train they can also enjoy their News Paper peace with a cup of coffee and also get the most from their expensive iPods.)

I lived in Bangalore for 34 years of my life & would love to see it prosper & grow to become one of the best cities in the World.

All the Best Bangalore! In my next visit to Bangalore, I hope to ride the Metro Rail from the Airport.

Pramod B V from Bangalore - The Traffic in bangalore has alarmed to the great extent now reach the dangerous level(Red). The main reason is due to IT Companies making their bases in bangalore.

Being a software engineer i oppose to sanctioning huge acres of land to software companies as Our Chief Minister H.D.Kumaraswamy told \"IT People earn lakhs together whereas an auto driver leads his life by earning 600-700Rs day (max) from morning 3 am by leaving the nature call and reaching home by 12pm..\"

Also the cost of living has increased to the greatest extent in bangalore . I request no more lands to be given to IT Companies especially in bangalore or nearby.

Bengloor from USA - I\'m sure this has already been mentioned. If not, here are the two things that will certainly help congestion any part of the globe NOT just Bangalore.

1. Tollways - Let it be both private and govt. funded and managed.

2. Metro - A light rail system in and around the city (spoke and hub concept). Our city is big and will continue to grow big. Again, it could be both private and govt. funded and managed.

B.Sandeep from Bangalore -Most of the traffic related problems of bangalore can be tackled by taking strict measures to enforce public transport. All the registered firms must be told to use buses to ferry their employees. Put a blanket ban on private vehicles during peak hours. We have thousands of people using cars to get to their workplace which must be stopped. METRO, sounds so nice. Is very much needed and will help in faster commuting. People co-operation in using public transport is very important. Lets help decongest Bangalore and in turn help ourselves.

Bangalore is not in a very bad shape it is made out to be. All big cities have similar problems, all over the world. There is a concerted effort to malign Bangalore and it must be stopped

Rohan Shetty from Bangalore - Please give some special considerations for people staying here for a long time, who are here from birth.iI may be in field of employment or while joining any institutions here. Please protect Kannadigas.

Vignesh from Mysore writes, "by implementing technology for all the vehicles the manual intervention will reduce and people will not dare to break the traffic rules. examples are implement rf id system and at every junction rf id monitoring system should be there which should catch the culprit. implementing GPS for cars, auto rikshaws, small pickup trucks, vans etc., and the police should charge huge amount of fine so that the culprit should not dare to do the same mistake again and again (if the fine amount is say Rs.300 people are ready to pay, it should be around Rs.1500) this may be an extra income for govt/traffic police dept and can be utilised to purchase some techology equipments .."

Anant Kumar from Coimbatore - it can be avoided by constructing flyovers as in china. it may make the distance more but the flow of traffic can be continued with out stop.

Omkar Priyanka from Bangalore - Well, that is all crap. I suggest whoever conducted and designeds that write-up to conduct a survey all over India in leading cities and I bet B\'lore\'s traffic is the most pleasent. Ask fellow Mumbaikars and the rookies in our circuit HYDERABADI\'s.

Pradeep Gururaja from Silicon City, SanFrancisco USA - Interesting question, we always talk about how pathetic infrastructure is, so, for a change - it is good to think what can be done to improve it, here are my two cents worth of thought:

1. Firstly, identify the main bottlenecks and try to fix it. Lets take the example of Electronic city, instead of people traveling to and fro Electronic city; they should consider settling down there itself. We should come up with good apartments, pubs, schools etc., to an extent in which people don’t find the need to come routinely to main city. The current Bangalore should be considered like a downtown area, to be visited once a while ..again .. I said ONCE IN A WHILE.

2. Come up with satellite townships something like Kengeri, Yelahanka etc., and connect these things through high bandwidth roads, something like freeways in US or rather like Germanys Autobahn ! so all the high tech guys can use this and stop cribbing. For the rest, ensure that we have an excellent train network connecting these townships. This thing would ease the load on core Bangalore(current Bangalore).

3. Have a control on the private developers, they buy farms, convert to sites and make a hefty profit but will not take care of sanitary, water supply etc., since these are not planned with respect to overall Bangalore ... they just stress existing infrastructure, and government is forced to integrate it into the regular system ( money is coming from our pockets for the profit land developers have made). Have strict rules ( and more importantly enforce it).

4. Have some responsible people at the helm. India has some of the brightest people in the country; if required have people from IIM\'s heading projects to ensure that it is executed professionally. To a certain extent, we can always blame government but later it is for us to take responsibility and act, if they are not working than its our mistake.

5. My fifth point is more of a corollary to my fourth: Have corporates like Wipro, TCS , Infosys take up certain city improvement projects ( they can inturn outsource it to L&T or some other company, but it should be their responsibility). Instead of paying regular taxes to government, they should have the power to use that money for city improvement projects. Eg: All companies in electronic city can form a association which inturn takes up responsibility for laying a high speed, parallel railway network from main Bangalore to electronic city.

Instead of companies cribbing Bangalore is awful, they should focus on making it better, moving to other cities is not the solution; you can say thats not my focus, i am here to create great software, I would ask them why are we doing all this ?? for money ? you already have that, you should not earn money for moneys sake but rather have a more noble goal, it is to make our country a better place. Once that happens; instead of running away from your( err.. our) responsibilities, you(we) will do what is REALLY needed and made your life worthwhile. ( Hope some great soul reads this, and does something).

Ask not What your country can do for you young man, but rather what you can do for your country ( Courtesy: John F. Kennedy ).

Bangalorean by heart. But currently in US, due to pathetic Bangalore infrastructure !! (Dont be like me, improve Bangalore !).

PS: I always dream about doing something great to my country, but always think its someone else who should do it, why are(am) we(I) like that ?

Jayaram Rukmangada from Bangalore - I have a suggestion to ease the traffic in Hosur Road to major extent. There is a small road from electronic city till Bannerughatta road. If this road is widened and made suitable for buses, a major traffic can be diverted there. The whole traffic goin towards south bangalore can use that road instead of Hosur Road, reducing the traffic in the hosur road to a greater extent.
Parallel\\Alternate roads is definitely a better solution to reduce the traffic problem.

Nagaraj Bhat from Hanmantha Nagar, Bangalore - Nothing is going to help by preaching the same old not good story. If this situation needs to be improved atleast after some 2 years imagining the action is taken with immediate iffect I have the following Suggestions.

1. Divide the city in to 5 different zones
These zones can be as follows
Banagalore North
Banagalore South
Banagalore West
Banagalore East
Banagalore Central
This means moving all the facilities which present only
centrally now.
Provide each zone a seperate transportation centre(Bus Stand)
Connect each of these centers using subways
Provide seperate roads for out bound traffic from each of the
zones.
Central zone is only a control center where not much of the
Human Transportation required.
2. Elevated Train
One Common route which connects all the zones through major
landmarks.
3. Improve the second tier cities surrounding Bangalore.

M. Jagadish Kumar from Bengaluru - Bring frist the Metro train and stop registring new vehicales in bangalore limits for atleast 1-2 years.

Renu Kumar from Bangalore - have seen many critics on Bangalore roads and I do support most of them. There are traffic jams which will eat most of our precious time. But, my point of view is that every city has a problem. It could be water supply, electricity, sewerage etc.

In Bangalore we don\'t have any of these problems and people who love critics will find the roads to write on them which is meaningless.

But still, to have a free flowing and smooth traffic, widening the road is the only idea.

Nagalakshmi Deepak from Bangalore : First and foremost is to make good roads to avoid traffic jams.
Traffc jams are caused not only due to bad roads but also due to the over flow of excess traffic. Traffic increases when more and more people migrate from different places to settle in Bangalore.
This should be addressed and rather provide more emplyment opportunities to localites instead of employing people from other states.

Also BDA should be more strict in allocating the sites. The localites should be given more prominence in all the sectors.

Why every outsider wants Bangalore to settle? and they blame Bangalore Infrastructure (being responsible for spoiling the same)Let them go and dwell in their own land, find jobs and do whatever they want to do in their home towns.

Also why every other state think number of times to give a house for rent or provide a job, if the person is from some other state ? But in Bangalore or Karnataka, we are ready to provide the jobs and houses to the outsiders as first priority.

When few of the above quoted are met....by default bangalore infrastructure will be improved.

Gopal from C V Ram Nagar, Bangalore - Thanks for giving this opputunity given to share my thoughts on bangalore infrastructure.I would just list every men and women requirements in bangalore.

1. Roads are poor. Once proper roads are laid, traffic congesion will be reduced. example: old ,madras road(the road is yet under completion stage. I see the same status for 2 years).Lots of examples like this can be given. My only question is what/who stops all these work?

2. Transport-Not enough transport due to which people opt for their own 2,4 wheelers. First, identify the areas which are to be properly covered by bangalore transport. increase the frequency.

3. Strict rules for those who dont follow the traffic rules.

4. BMP should take all the concerns and try to solve these problems. It doesn\'t look like doing any work.

Sudhi Nayak from Bangalore - Bangalore has over 212 IT companies giving solution to bigger problems. if atleast a company and state government comes together I think a lot can happen here.

Somashekar from Brisbane, Australia - I would like to appriciate for the kind guesture showed by Mr. Ravishankar and his team mates. Actually this is a very bad situation of what our city is turning into, and what our politicians are doing to curb those irregularities caused by not 1 but hundreds and thousands of problems.

First of all let me introduce myself to our citizens of Bangalore. I am an MBA graduate from Central Queensland University. I may not be a well versed problem solver but, will try my level best to give some ideas to those concerning authorities.

First of all, Bangalore is known for its IT development through out the world. But there might be some unindated problems which may be concerning for those authorities. Let me take a few measures as to which there can be a cause not only for bangalore alone but for the whole state as well.

Actually management according to many authors were different and I found out a brief explanation of those, \"management means where authority is delegated to responsibile people and accountability is ensured from them in a proper manner\". First of all let me do a brief SWOT analysis (strength, weakness, oppurtunity and threats).
Coming to strengths
1. Bangalore has got a very good atmospheric conditions and climatic, which allows any industry (especially IT) to venture into.
2. It has got a very massive amount of space, where it can expand.
3. People are very tolerable and can accomodate everything and everybody.
4. It has got a good revenue package from taxes as more and more people are becoming educated.
5. Very good planning when compared to other cities.
6. Young and dynamic people like Kumaraswamy, who enter into the highest authority of the state.
7. Very profitable organisations such as KPTCL, BMTC, KSRTC, BDA, and many more.

Weaknesses
1. very poor management organisational skills developed by the present government.
2. Very poor infrastructure when compared to metropolitan cities of india and the world as a whole.
3. Poor strategies implemented by those authorities, who might be very naive, or illiterate in managing.
4. Not very educated people in those authorities where, they learn to take responsibilites from their delegating supervisiors.

Oppurtunity
1. has got a whole lot of oppurtunity to the government to take many of the business tycoons into the board like Narayana murthy, Azim Premji, Kiran Mazumdar and many of them.
2. And having a good rapport between the tycoons and the government.
3. There can be always a WIN - LOSE situations with in those people.

Threats
1. Threats from competiting states where they can provide a good infrastructure and pull those IT industry which are generating a huge income to the state.
2. Heavy rains, which causes floods and famines which cannot be avoided but can be controlled.

suggestions to the state government
1. I know this may sound rude, but \" to all the politians in general, stop acting immatured in all the sense, because there are people all around the world who are having a watch on you people, and they may think as immatured and non corporate acts in the field of politics.

Sundararaman from Chennai - I think government should create a rule to cut down the use of vehicle.People should start using cycle.I know this sounds crazy but most of the people in banglore are IT people. This is a lazy job i.e it involves sitting in the chair and very little of physical exercise. This is very dangerous to health. So people should realize and go for a cheaper,environment friendly means of transport if possible.

Cycle is a good option.It is an exercise also.I know iam out of my mind but i think we should look at japan and china and their traffic problems and how their government deals with it.I think they have made cycle as compulsory for kids. Buying a car,taxes,license etc are very costly in japan and china.The middle class people cant afford it. But due to IT our life style has changed. Middle class people can afford to buy a car because of high salaries. Our government should also take some action. Another way is to build an underground train network which is almost impossible.

Krishnan from Chennai - Bangalore is definitely one of the best city in India and there is no doubt about it.
The reason for criticism in Infrastructure cannot be accepted for the following reasons:-

1) Bangalore has grown up large in IT sector and the facilities what the central or state government allocates should be equivalent according to the IT Growth of the city.

2) Most of Indian cities Traffic sense is total chaos and nightmare. Bangalore is no exception and cannot be blamed like (While the rest of India drives on the left side of the road; Bangaloreans drive on what\'s left of the road). Thats very partial and rude comment.

3) Any city which is seeing abundance in growth - The Centre or the state should fund more to make it more convenient for the Investor as well as the Public.

4) The Entrepreneurs who invest in Bangalore - should feel comfortable for the investment they made or ventured in Bangalore and the government should privatize to big companies in India or abroad to manage or design arterial roads. This will help resolving lots of major issues concerning governing bodies.

5) Any given Country can heavily bank on Infrastructural growth and bangalore got tremendous potentiality. Airports and Giant Flyovers can transform very rich dividend to both state and central government if there is a structural and excellent planning.

6) A Team of experts should do lots of Case Study from other country before taking up major Infrastructural Projects.

Nand from Bangalore - The best way to avoid jams is to allow Trucks and other HCVs into cities only before 8.00 AM and after 11.00 PM. Again the BMTC buses have been responsible for may accidents and deaths. The Govt has not right to kill someone on the roads because of rash drivers who compete with other BMTC Drivers.

STOP THIS PLEASE!!! Again make more one ways and shorten the footpaths.This will easy traffic.

I hope someone will read this and more importantly act on it. Help Bangalore to grow and not to project as a messy and unbearable living scenerio to the World.

K S Shyamsunder from Bengaluru writes : I think mass transportation is the only way to ease the traffic congestion in namma bengaluru. A LOCAL TRAIN SYSTEM as in mumbai and chennai is very effective in reducing traffic chaos,since metro is far away to run on tracks. at that time the traffic problems will be further increased and the new projects planned now will become ineffective. so a mass public transport such as loal trains is very necessary. also RUNNING MORE NUMBER OF AC VOLVO BUSES AT PEAK HOURS will also be a vey effective idea since IT and BT professionals want high comfort and high standard of living. this reduce the number of personal vehicles in peak hours and hence reduces traffic problems.

Vivek Thomas from Bangalore - Travel time from my house on Bannerghatta road to Electronics city or mysore road has decreased considerably and it is such a pleasure to drive on roads like what NICE has constructed. All of us including my neighbours find this to be a truly wonderful road. I congralute NICE and Mr. Ashok Khenny on doing the needful for Bangalore and must say that the CM is not looking out for the city when he opposes this. No one in business would do something without expecting a profit and the CM should just let it go and allow NICE to complete the project.

Manoj from Bangalore - it is very very good project for comeing generation and for our utility .let god bless u for all your work.

Ripu Daman Singh from Dharamshala, Himachala Pradesh - banglore is a good city but state govt. and also central govt. has taken futher steps to maintain quality of this i.t. city.to maintain rads with the help of private agencies,setup monitoring teams etc.

Lakshman Raju from Bangalore writes : Yes I do believe that Bangalore is growing at a rapid pace, there is simply too much to do.Most flyovers have only shifted the traffic jams from one place to another, the Metro ( lets wait ). Primarily Bangalore is a city with far too many traffic signals ( most of them in not more than 200 meters from the other. We need to combat this.Bus Bays are a must,I see buses stop in the centre of busy roads, adding to the chaos, people waiting for buses are standing almost at the centre of the road, civic sense needs to be applied.

Subways & Busbays for starters, then let us become futuristic.

Dada from Bangalore - The problem with Bangalore is that corrupt politicians and officials have allowed commercial and highrise residential units to be built ignoring all the rules and regulations. These buildings should not occpy more than 15-20 percent of the land, the rest must be earmarked for parking and as lung/recreational space. No commercial business should be allowed near or in residential areas. An effective transport system along with a modern sewage/drainage system, water and power should have been implemented ahead of the projects and not just for the present but looking 40-50 years into the future Trainig drivers using video simulators every year as a pre-requsite to renew their driving permits for another year and teaching hygeine to all the vendors and anyone else handling food including servents should be a given.Mandate into law that all tv stations and movie theaters show videos that deal with these problems -everyday.

Prasad Bogadapati from Bangalore - BMIC will make this an other village road connecting many politician\'s villages and fields by the time it is complete.

Govind from Bangalore : Today most of the roads are not fully utilised due to unorganised foot paths (so people walk on roads), commercial establishment occupies a part of foot paths (so no place to walk),malls and shopping complex treat the foot path in front of them as their property or it is built for the persons come for doing busness their. unorganised parking on roads the owners keep their vehicles covered with vehicle covers ,short distance travellers bring their mercides benz to eat chats , date concept hardly works in peak hours , lot of cross roads not connected to main roads hence the vehicle gets crowded in the roads which is connected to main roads ,mud and sand on either side of road makes only 60 % utility of roads , elevated foot paths can be a way for safe pedestriants and part widening of roads , replacing old trees with shrubs and flower plant can beutify the roads , ...................

Srinivasan from Bangalore : How long the Gowda family can hold this project?

Simha from London: The politicians should stop troubling people like Mr Kheny.

Prasanna XD from Bangalore - Bangalore\'s infrastructure is in bad shape. Bangalore has to have a vision of becoming a wireless city. This would help in less number of IT professionals commuting, there by retaining its leading position as Silicon Valley of the East. Making it a wireless city would also help other companies consider its employees work from home rather than travel distances.

Ramaiah Setty from Bangalore - My sincere request to support the nice company to speed up the project without any further delay for nation development on par with other fast developing nations and help the future generations to come. Atleast the next government will respect the supreme court and remove the hurdles in the execution of the project put by the previous regime in the interest of public who voted to the power and paying taxes out of their hard earned money. National interest should win against personal feuds.

Sanjeev from Tamilnadu - WIDENING ALL THE ROADS IN BANGALORE WILL DECONGEST THE TRAFFIC.

Bhaskar Kamath from Bangalore - Infrastructure projects already started must work in three shifts to complete the project within dead line.

Though BBMP and BDA are trying very best to ensure smooth running of projects, the efforts need to be focussed towards completion within date agreed. There has to be consortium of corporate companies and invloved govt.agencies who will monitor status of the project with least interference from government.

Pending cases in court has to be given time line for final judgement and our courts have to also take equal responsibility in ensuring faster judgement.

Abhinav Shrivastav from U P - the government of karnataka is taking a steps towards to make the city(BANGALORE) as fit and fast as the city known for it\'s name like there should be equality at each part of the city i.e some parts of the bangalore are as worst as the one can\' expect it from a garden city

K SatyaRajashekar from Bangalore - The purpose of metro rail is to decongest traffic and allow people to travel more in short distance.

I have gone through the metro rail map and found that magestic is the center point of contact for all the trains. If a person wants to trave from peenya to jayanagar for work then he has to lank up in magestic and take another route rail to reach jayanagar. If you see the rail route of one of the places in japan then you will come to know that rail routes are all in cirles and no circle intersects with another circle.

My suggestion for metro to grow better in bangalore is to have a separate lanes side to peripherial ring road which should be in circles, so that it can cover every area of the bangalore. With the above step people need not have to travel with in city to go to other side of the place. This will decongest the traffic.

Please share others views on this.

H K Srikanth from Bangalore - I see everyday morning there is a lot of jam near the Bishop cottons school where the childrens are trying to cross the road. Where there no elevation for road crossing which will help a lot of people and avoid traffic jams.

Similarly on this road, there is a right turn but I see people from left trying to move to the right and hence traffic jam. Where cannot there be a divider to allow vehicle to move to right alone and the the left side can be used for straight drive.

Padmesh from Bangalore NICE shold complete this project , Bnagalore Govt should extend all its co-operation to expedite this project .

S R Ayyangar from Bangalore - Let the talks of Magic Boxes , flyovers, elevated roads, Metro, mono/tube rails be kept aside for a moment and concentrate on the following points which are not of long term nature and can be implemented with a minimum outlay of funds RIGHT NOW FROM TOMORROW ITSELF if the authorities concerned i.e. BBMP & Traffic Police are serious about unlocking Bangalore.

1. Remove or shift all the bus stops and auto stands which are situated immediately after a turning or circle. These are main hindrance in free flow of traffic. Penalise those bus drivers and auto drivers who stop the buses/autos at these turnings and bus stops.

2. Distance between two bus stops should not be less than half a kilometer. At present, there are many bus stops which are less than 100 meters apart and buses are not able to pick up speed.
3. Make footpaths free of hawkers. Stone slab footpaths are uneven. They should be properly plastered to have an even surface.

4. Public or for that matter any body including government agencies like BWSSB, Telecom, Bescom, cable operators who dig the road or footpath must be made accountable to restore them back to original failing which heavy penalty should be imposed.

5. Slow moving vehicles like bullock cart, hand driven carts, three wheeler rickshaws, Tonga, etc should not be allowed within the city limits during peak hours.

6. Any body driving two wheelers on the footpath to go ahead in a traffic jam situation must be penalised or his/her vehicles should be impounded.

7. At railway crossings, there is a common tendency by two as well as four wheelers to block the right side of the road in order to go ahead as soon as the train passes. This practice results in blockage of traffic on both sides of the crossing. Public who are also well educated should understand this.

8. Potholes on any road should be immediately filled up as soon as information is received. Road inspectors should be made accountable for not attending to any pothole.

9. Superior quality paint should be used for zebra crossing and other road humps as the paints used at present become faint or invisible after a weeks time.

10. Glow signs should be put up at the starting of all road dividers.

- S.R. Ayyangar
76, 5th Block, IEHCS Layout, Vidyaranyapura, Bangalore 560097
email:srayyangar@gmail.com Mobile: 9886196929

Devraj from Bangalore - Improving the infrastructure is a good thing, but in the name of development all the greenery in bangalore is dissappearing. At most care should be taken to grow the greenery along with improvement of infrastructure.

Keep the name of bangalore for its well known gardens i.e Garden city of India

Roxy from Bangalore - The city is dying, and we can do nothing about it.
Get more space, with this population and to make road size 6 times than the current width of the roads, then something might happen and a good life can be lived. Else work from Home culture will take place soon for the major techies.

K Ravi Kumar from Bangalore - For traffic management levelled parking areas near every hot spot corners
Device a ring road local train running
Plan for a train on the outer rig road as well
build short jump overs and not long fly overs
Clean the foot paths so that pedestrians use them
Leave free left turns where ever possible
do not waste time by simply putting timers in less traffic signals instead use traffic cops in such places
PLEASE DO NOT TAKE CARS FOR SINGLE PERSON use 2 wheelers instead
Make little left space for busses to stop
clear all roads under the fly overs
These are for emergency suggestions only for permanent solutions i will contact later

Avinash from Mumbai - Bangalore was a cute little city (so was Mumbai) when I visited it in 1980; and was called garden city and pensioner\'s paradise. Agreed! Bangalore was never meant to become a high paced city. The electricity fails so often yet it houses IT industry! I think the various Governments and officials are grossly insensitive.

The roads in Bangalore do not have lanes marked out. How can you have discipline on roads with no lanes marked out?

Some inverted genius went ahead and made the roads one-way. So now people have to drive on roads they never meant to go on. So this means that roads have vehicles that were not supposed to be there. So this means excess traffick. And all this because one inverted genius got a brain wave one fine day! Moral - one way roads are good idea but if you dont know how to do it, outsource the task.

Electricity interruption is every Indian\'s birth right. Only south Mumbai gets 24X7 electric supply even after it was renamed to Mumbai from Bombay. I have no ideas for improving this malady.

Housing is another problem for young engineers who start their careers in Bangalore. All the IT firms there shamelessly exploit the hi-tech brains of India which are left to rent sharks of Bangalore to exploit to the hilt. Why does Narayana Murthy want to build the airport? why cant he build serviced hostels for boys and girls who land in Bangalore and help it to financially thrive?

Every problem has a solution. It is the will that is usually lacking.
I have already asked my son to leave Bangalore.