Re: [silk] Cable Cars - A viable urban rapid transport system?

2016-05-12 Thread Heather Madrone
Thaths wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:33 AM Heather Madrone wrote: Thaths wrote: True, but I would not classify it as Mass or Rapid. Can you imagine a cable car system being able to deal with the NJ-NY traffic? Cable cars might replace some of the local surface

Re: [silk] Holy Cow!

2016-05-12 Thread Radhika, Y.
Fortunately not everybody has lost it. Loved John Oliver's take: Donald Drumpf (his take on Mein Kampf) On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > It is sort of fun to just watch well meaning desi colleagues’ faces on a > visit stateside when you say you

[silk] Holy Cow!

2016-05-12 Thread Thaths
http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/05/11/indian-prayers-for-a-donald-trump-victor?videoId=368454988 Either this is some high concept performance art, or The Donald is bringing out the crazies from around the world. Isn't Mahishasura Mardini stortram a more appropriate prayer for Hillary to slay

Re: [silk] Article: Can The World's Worst Traffic Problem Be Solved?

2016-05-12 Thread Vinay Rao
I haven't been to Manila but from the pictures, I'm hazarding a guess that its population density isn't very different from Bangalore. If the median age is <25, that's a whole mess of people who are fit enough to be longboarding or cycling to school, college, and work, for several years to come.

Re: [silk] Holy Cow!

2016-05-12 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:25 PM Thaths wrote: > > http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/05/11/indian-prayers-for-a-donald-trump-victor?videoId=368454988 > > Either this is some high concept performance art, or The Donald is bringing > out the crazies from around the world. > >

Re: [silk] Holy Cow!

2016-05-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
It is sort of fun to just watch well meaning desi colleagues’ faces on a visit stateside when you say you don’t support modi and have no intention of visiting his traveling circus .. > On 12-May-2016, at 3:13 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > > I have some

[silk] Article: Can The World's Worst Traffic Problem Be Solved?

2016-05-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Interesting, especially in the context of a recent thread. Udhay Overcrowded and highly polluted Metro Manila just might fix its wildly expensive traffic jam by overhauling a World War II relic found nowhere else in the world: the jeepney. You might think twice about boarding a bus named