At Chennai Anna Road HPO, India Post does not do UPI. Only cash. Their technical systems don't work. They had problems so scrapped digital payments. This beautiful philatelic bureau bldg houses operations during renovation but lies neglected.

Egmore Suburban platform: After 10+years of Narendra Modi modernising railway, there is no train information on Suburban services in Chennai! Google has a fixed timetable. But Indian Railways has no real time train info! Next door, Chennai Metro has some train info! #india #Chennai #Railway

Glad to see @dmoser.bsky.social in charge of India here, with a focus on climate and energy. Indian cities can transform if the quality of urban bus travel matches cars. Sadly city buses remain antiquated, badly designed white cars are ever more comfortable.

It's a white Christmas in Plain, Washington. #snow #Christmas

Saw this display @ Washington DC Smithsonian museum. Pervious pavements were proposed for Chennai, what happened to them? They could reduce run off, water loss, flood. #urbanisation #storms #chennai #concrete #engineering #water

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #510,328!

Buses in India are better when they are operating between cities. This one is between Chennai and Bangalore.
@busesarecool.bsky.social

a good decision, TN government has posted IAS officer Alby John to head MTC, sole bus operator of #Chennai struggling to professionalise. He has golden opportunity to improve its foundations. MTC must repurpose itself for an age of new mobility. Integrate! Clean up termini like Broadway.

Health insurance in India is a massive scam perpetrated by successive governments. Failed US model of commercial, for-profit insurance is being hawked as a solution in a country of low purchasing power. This episode is one more piece of evidence. #healthcare #health