So are nine transport projects meant to improve the city's infrastructure.

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But Mr Paes has promised to transform the city's infrastructure, and the government says all of the Olympic venues will be finished a year before the Games start.

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Bhatia, who grew up in Bangalore, points to the city's fraying infrastructure and traffic logjams.

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Once Katrina's winds died down, New Orleans' chief technology officer, Greg Meffert, surveyed the damage to the city's IT infrastructure.

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