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Wednesday, April 21, 2004
The Railway Station
Looks like the Okalipuram entrance to the Railway Station is going to remain makeshift forever. Although several trains depart from platforms 6 to 10 these days, the amenities continue to be non-existent and navigating your vehicle through that entrance continues to be a nightmare. No pre-paid auto/taxi facilities are available, no restrooms, and the shelters that cover the platform are far narrower exposing passengers to the vagaries of nature which seems to be nudging the limits at both ends in Bangalore in recent years. In comparison the Chennai railway station, now equipped with Wi-fi, no less, is extremely passenger-friendly. And one can no-longer crib about step-motherly treatment by the Southern Railway either, Bangalore now falling under the South Western Railway headquartered in Hubli.
posted by The Bangalorean @4/21/2004 02:36:00 PM 0 comments
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Point to Ponder
- What do you call a congenial, captivating, cosmopolitan confluence of software and shopping malls, electronics and environment friendliness, salubrious climate and cleanliness, modern outlook and old worldliness, precision engineering and pubs? You call it India's best city for business. It is also called Bangalore.
Opening lines of Business Today's survey on India's best cities for business, December 1998.
Does Bangalore resemble any of this today?
Thought for the Times
- "We neglect our cities at our peril. For, in neglecting them, we neglect the nation."
-John F. Kennedy
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