New Bangalore road to beat jams
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India's out-sourcing capital Bangalore is to get an $87m (Â£48m) new toll motorway in a fresh bid to tackle congestion.
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A scheme which allows motorists to drive along the hard shoulder of the M42 is to be rolled out to other areas.
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The Karnataka state government is trying to slow growth in Bangalore by encouraging new investors to set up their facilities in new townships.The concept of satellite towns is not new to Bangalore. While companies moved to these satellite towns because of the relatively cheap real estate, they did not provide housing there. As a result, employees had to commute from their homes in Bangalore to townships like Electronic City.Karnataka will now insist that companies establishing facilities in the new townships should also provide housing for their employees, said M.N. Vidyashankar, secretary for information technology in the state government. The township at Bidadi will be self-contained with schools, malls, and a direct link to an international airport under construction, he added.Besides the new townships, the government is also trying to reduce migration from the hinterland into Bangalore by trying to route new investments in IT, call centers, and business process outsourcing (BPO) facilities to other towns in Karnataka like Belgaum, Hubli, Bellary, and Mysore. The government has acquired land in some of these towns to be developed in partnership with the private sector.To get access to new staff pools, as well as to cut costs, Indian outsourcers are looking at smaller towns where they can set up their new facilities, said Siddharth Pai, a partner at outsourcing consultancy firm Technology Partners International Inc. (TPI) in Houston. Some outsourcing companies like Infosys already have operations in towns around Bangalore, like Mysore and Mangalore.Some of these small towns are centers for education, and hence good places to hire staff, Pai said. The only drawback so far has been poor connectivity by road and air, which the government should try to solve, he addedWith a population of over 6.5 million, the Indian city of Bangalore is reeling from too much growth at too fast a pace. The city houses the services delivery centers of top Indian outsourcers like Infosys Technologies and Wipro, and multinational companies like IBM, Dell, and Oracle.The traffic jams, high cost of housing, and shortage of staff in the city has not, however, slowed down new entrants to the city. In August, the state of Karnataka, of which Bangalore is the capital, cleared 52 new investments in the area of IT, said Vidyashankar.IT, call center, and BPO facilities in Bangalore employ 480,000 direct staff, apart from providing indirect employment to over 3 million other people, according to Vidyashankar. These sectors contribute to 36 percent of the state&#39;s GDP (gross domestic product), which is expected to increase to 50 percent of GDP by 2011, he added.
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By Brad Cooper, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 13--Overland Park is about to help drivers avoid traffic jams by giving them live Internet video of some of the city's busiest and most dangerous streets.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - It's not quite the highway beautification Illinois transportation officials had in mind.
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THE Australian team has arrived in the lush southern city of Bangalore for tomorrow&#39;s first Test to be greeted by a pitch that is as cracked and dry as a Coober Pedy waterhole in a drought.
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[World News]: London, Nov 8 : If your city&#39;s increasing traffic leaves you with nothing but a headache, here is a godsend that promises to make life easier.
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Â· Livingstone maps out 12 bicycle 'motorways' Â· Â£400m plan includes suburban networks
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When businesses along Route 28 took the unusual step of taxing themselves to build a wider, better highway, they expected easier access would mean more customers. Instead, they say, the changes have left them off the side of the road, out of sight and hard to find.
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When narrow colonial-era streets get jammed with evening traffic in India's technology capital, the radio disc jockey on car stereos turns agony aunt.
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BANGALORE, India  - When narrow colonial-era  streets get jammed with evening traffic in India's technology  capital, the radio disc jockey turns agony aunt.
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As incomes rise and cheap cars proliferate, many hurdles still litter the new Indian romance with the road.
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Bangalore: The ultimate tussle of contemporary Test cricket begins in Bangalore on Wednesday as Australia launch a &quot;well-planned&quot; mission to conquer the &quot;Final frontier&quot; and record their first series win on Indian soil in 35 years.
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Motorway dropped from radical traffic management scheme aimed at reducing congestion on major roads
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India's Kerala state to build a technology-friendly city for global investors.  Also: Intel continues its expansion in the Indian city Bangalore & hellip;. Sirius Satellite scores a hard-charging CEO & hellip;. and more.
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By Corrinne Hess  chess@@dailyherald.com  Don't let the asphalt fool you.  The new road slated for construction at Redwing Slough conservancy just outside of Antioch is not meant as a welcome sign.
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Yahoo Maps gets a great new upgrade that helps users re-route their driving directions.