About 20 lakh people get off at the CST (VT) and Churchgate stations or get in each day. I do not think these are in bad state at all. Konkan Railway stations...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/business/worldbusiness/02train.html Bullet Train Remakes Map of South Korea By JAMES BROOKE USAN, South Korea, April 1 -...
Let us do some back-of-the-envelope calculations. For an expense of Rs. 2,00,000 crores, let us assume an interest payment of 10%, depreciation of 5%, and...
... I hope you realise that while concessional loans reduce the costs only a bit. Every bit helps, but you can't take decisions on major projects based on...
Here we are not talking of Delhi-Kanpur. We are talking of Delhi- Bombay which will take a large amount of people. It is about Mass Transit. 300 people in one...
It would be useful to pay attention to what Mr. Sanghi is saying before rejecting it out of hand. 1. Even on the Mumbai Delhi corridor, with a free market, one...
Dear Friends, Today I along with IRFCAians Vaibhav and Tamish travelled on Delhi Metro to check out the new extension from Inderlok to Rithala. We did a...
Dear Friends, After reading all the mails about "Delhi-Mumbai in 6 hours" and from my personal opinion it does not seem a viable project which is going to...
Dear Friends, Every technology has its positive and negetive aspects. High speed trains too is not a exception. We are talking in terms of Cost vs. Time. Can...
Perhaps I have not been very clear. India is a very lrge country and it has peole with different purchaing power and needs. Although I had mentioned 10,000 km...
In this argument related to Delhi Mumbai high speed project. I wanted to emphasise that if we have to get something which is even comparable to say European or...
Hey Dheeraj and DM junta, how did we arrived on this figure of Rs. 2,00,000 crores? The article (link below) says the cost of the project to be Rs. 4,000...
While I am not in favour of this high speed train project because of its inability to deliver equivalent benefits (to air travel) at a significantly lower ...
... Well, I just took the number from the previous post to which I was replying. But I will also add that Rs. 2.86 crores/km is the cost of laying a normal...
Additional to what Dr. Sanghi has said, the fact that the line would need to be completely fenced off would add to costs. It would imply that say every 200 m,...
That is what I am saying. Here we are talking about investment in railway sector. So what kind of investment are we thinking of. Are we thinking of low end,...
The two newly approved extensions are 1. Barakhamba Road to Indraprastha via Mandi House, Supreme Court/Appu Ghar, Pragati Maidan, IP Estate. This line would ...
Abhishek, I don't mean to say that high speed rail doesn't make sense at all anywhere. May be there are sections where it does make sense, e.g., the smaller...
Abhishek, I don't mean to say that high speed rail doesn't make sense at all anywhere. May be there are sections where it does make sense, e.g., the smaller...
Hi, I'm very curious to know as to why there are two lines of pillars on Line 3 just after the Shadipur Flyover, near the Kirti Nagar station. Is this where...
Hi! My thanks to all those involved in starting this group. I had people laughing on my face when I would eagerly talk with them about the Delhi Metro saying...
A detailed Project Report will always bring out viability of a project. If any project that is sustainable, ecofriendly, efficient and employment generating is...
Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone happened to visit the recently opened section of line 1. We NRI's are eagerly waiting to see some snaps or videos of...
In Hindustan times dated 14/09/2001, in an article Managing Director of DMRC has mentioned that, "Delhi metro would be adequate to meet the operation and...
Hi Ankur, Well the question of routes can be controversial. Like is Delhi - Bombay a longer route or Delhi-Agra-Jaipur triangle will be good. We can think of...
to take photographs was not allowed when i had visited the Metro. but on this link u can see that......... http://irfca.org/photos/DelhiMetroByAshish Regards, ...
Mukti, I don't know what Sreedharan meant when he said that but that statement has to be so far from the truth. I don't know how DMRC expects to even meet its...
I am asking for spending money on giving tax breaks to air travel simply because it is much faster and probably not too much expensive compared to high speed ...
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