We DO NOT Need a Steel Flyover !!

Visit orphanage educate them about scholarships, courses to bring awareness what they can do? how better they can do? . help them keep their premises clean.

The electric bus introduced by BMTC had highly positive reviews, but they were unable to implement the idea due to the high cost of the bus (about 2.8 crores). I would like to suggest a model where some affluent section of the society here can donate the bus to BMTC(donate as in still have some kind of ownership of the bus).

For example, Sandlewood stars who can afford to can donate a bus and use the same bus to promote their upcoming movies as well(i.e poster of the movie painted on the bus). So we can have a Punith Rajkumar bus and a Sudeep bus all serving to save the environment and promote their movies.

Most of the Namma Metro pillars look pretty ugly with advertisements and other hoardings on them. Instead we can try and grow creepers on them. It will not only add to the aesthetics of the place but also contribute to the green cover. I have attached a photo as an example.

Hello Nextbangalore,

Thanking you for allowing this platform. I’m not greatly aware of the possibilities of these suggestions with reference to all the spaces you have, but I hope you’ll consider and think through these lines for better possibilities.

1. A rain water harvesting space.
Bangalore is in a critical stage with regards to the overexploited groundwater levels, any initiative to help that cause will be of great help.

the following links will give you a basic view about how critical the situation is…

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Stop-drilling-theres-no-groundwater-left/articleshow/31914653.cms

http://www.thealternative.in/society/bangalore-lakes-and-status-of-ground-water/

2. A space where Solid/Dry waste can be helped to be sold or collected.
We don’t really have a system in place to recycle waste, personally i don’t like to throw away (and thus unfortunately end up collecting) many of the plastic bags, cigarette packets, tetra packs, glass and plastic bottles etc. and there is no space that i know where i can sell them (or even give them off…) where i’m assured that they will be recycled in the correct manner (and not downcycled to cause more pollution!). If this can be helped that’ll be great for many citizens who’ve come to realize the value of these things. There are a few collection points for dry waste in Bangalore, but they are far and very sparse in terms of their distribution across the city, not many people knows about them and even if they are, the travel and the cost associated with it, diminishes their chances.

Here is what is listed for a population of 4.3 million people…

http://www.thealternative.in/lifestyle/dry-waste-collection-centres-in-bangalore/

3. Something related to the idea of commons
Perhaps this is a bit troublesome to work out, but nevertheless… a space where ‘all the nobodies’ can take shelter or some sort of refuge in, a space where we could perhaps grow something organic from which whoever needy/hungry… human or animal could find some sort of resource from, may be at least to feed themselves for once in a day’s time.

Long time back, there was a news about a man in Kerala who managed to do agriculture in empty spaces of the city/town (even the sides of the roads, basically in the patches of land that he didn’t own) where he harvested many kinds of crops, including rice… it was risky because whoever owned those spaces could take away his hardwork/source of income/profit etc. at any point of time… but I guess he did well enough and was a great humanitarian… what people/animals took away, if i remember right, he accepted and allowed all that… even if a moth is eating away your crop, for that being too is a form of life. and life in whatever form you feed, is always going to be thankful deed. May be the people who benefits could later pool into helping the initiative, plant, plow or water, or may be a wealthy, well to do person who wants an exercise or some sort of good karma could do that for them, ideally regardless a sense of profit/credit, may be somewhere there is a possibility where the space could transform and become an expression of kindredness and generosity.

Last January, I came across an artistic project somewhere in Europe (as part of Kochi Beinnale) where they made an oxygen releasing pond, a quiet tranquil space for the people to come in and just be by themselves… think that too was a good common’s space project. But yes, it all depends on the space and the kind of public it inhabits.

About commons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons

Sincere apologies if what I’ve written are not really pragmatic in terms of space references, but once again many thanks for the sounding board, wishing all of you the very best with regards to this project.

I’d like,
> more safety!
> a club as ahall of something like a workspace for little kids to show their talents, a hall for the old people and young adults to have meetings and to socialize.
* Meetings for the welfare and betterment of our environment.
> clear garbage, and proride with Huge Bins.
> A lane for cycels
> Graffiti
>Skateboard park
> A better libary for bookwormes
> Lady camp for gossip

Rents are high, a lot of traffic. Sustraining oneself after a part of time is difficult.

We want basket ball, foodball, painting, drawing and keep the city clean and neat and save the earth.

I want to become pilot and business man, I hope that I can make for more papal houses then.

The hoods here are messed up! If they repair one road they dig the other. I would want this to change as I think it’s not really hard to get the hoods repaird and use good quality goods.

I Shantinagar the bad persons should become good persons, this is to change in Shantinagar

Keep the city clean, take over the carbage and avoid mosquite.

We want basket ball, football and swimming posibilities.

a) Wastebox presence in the city
b) making people aware to not to throw waste on road side
c) to form a new type of self-helping organization in every street which will take care of the particular streets

Dust bins, if there are ample dustbins and a correspondian garbane cleanance system, we could make a start towards a citter free city

Informal chats msgs among citizar members/volunteers-share comic snippets/photo/videos of the joke/funny situations. Develops informal relationship access.