Flex banners of various sizes, put up by political parties, businesses and educational institutions, line roads such as Thanisandra Main Road, Jakkur Main Road and KV Jairam Road Bengaluru: At a time when Bengaluru development minister Krishna Byre Gowda is leading a crackdown on footpath encroachments and shifting street vendors off pavements, another hazard continues…
Bengaluru: Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), which is set to launch a citywide drive against abandoned vehicles Friday, issued a detailed standard operating procedure (SOP) that lays down the process for identifying, towing, and disposing of vehicles left on roads, footpaths, and other public spaces.The drive, to be carried out jointly by the city corporations, traffic…
Bengaluru: The Greater Bengaluru Authority’s ‘Safe Footpath’ drive continued Tuesday across all five city corporations, covering nearly 55km of roads in an effort to clear encroachments and improve pedestrian infrastructure.Meanwhile, the Joint Action Committee of Street Vendors, comprising five associations, has announced a protest at Freedom Park Wednesday against the eviction drive, alleging that vendors…
Fewer than 10 vendors remained along Jayamahal Main Road in JC Nagar Friday, operating only from pushcarts Bengaluru: As the footpath encroachment clearance drive gathers momentum across the city, street vendors in several areas have begun vacating pavements on their own to avoid enforcement action.The pattern was clearly visible Friday along Jayamahal Main Road in…
Footpaths at and around Jalahalli are in deplorable conditions Bengaluru: Jalahalli Cross moves thousands of vehicles every hour. But for pedestrians, one of the city’s busiest junctions offers little more than a choice between broken footpaths and moving traffic.A TOI walk across all four roads radiating from the junction found a striking pattern: pedestrian infrastructure…
Bengaluru North City Corporation (BNCC) completed 86% of its project to replace conventional streetlights with energy-efficient LED lights across its jurisdiction.In a release, BNCC said the project, being implemented under public-private partnership (PPP) model, aims to improve energy, public safety and modernise streetlighting infrastructure.According to BNCC commissioner Pommala Sunil Kumar, installation of centralized control and…
Dog attack leaves child injured Bengaluru: A four-year-old girl suffered multiple injuries on face, hands and legs after a pack of six stray dogs attacked her near the indoor stadium in CQAL Layout, Sahakarnagar, north Bengaluru, on Sunday evening. The incident has again raised concerns over the stray dog menace in the city.Sangeetha has since…
Bengaluru: Activists have raised concerns over the design and management plan of a stray dog shelter being constructed to house around 500 animals in north Bengaluru, warning that overcrowding, inadequate infrastructure and the absence of stakeholder oversight could compromise animal welfare.The concerns were raised during a visit to the under-construction shelter at Medi Agrahara Friday….
Bengaluru: Residents of a large apartment complex in Jalahalli East have been pooling in money every year to keep a 100-metre stretch of road usable during monsoon. Reason: The city corporation or elected representatives haven’t been able to provide a lasting solution.Residents of Shriram Sameeksha apartment complex, which has over 1,000 homes, said they spend…
Bengaluru: In a city increasingly grappling with rising temperatures and urban heat stress, an initiative aimed at making govt healthcare spaces cooler and more comfortable has shown promising results. Two primary health centres (PHCs) in north Bengaluru — Agrahara and Amruthahalli — recorded a drop of more than 3°C in indoor temperatures after reflective “cool…
