* Metro Rail: proper rehabilitation urged * Staff Reporter HYDERABAD: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday demanded the government to begin the Metro...
I see an article in today's HT (epaper) on the first stretch of the Delhi BRTS along Tito Marg. Good to see Delhi is doing so much in the right direction after...
I had heard that they are transplanting the trees. That is the uprooted trees are again planted somewhere else. Is this true? If it is true then is it...
Unfortunately, the success rate is very little. The transplantation is done by the engineers and the workers associated with the engineering works. It does not...
Is the lack of attention to surrounding during and after erection of track structure it? the pot holes in the replacement roads are almost always un attended ...
To have a transport system in place is a different to have coordinated network of systems in place. One system alone is never going to be sufficient. That is...
Very right. Coordianted efoorts are need of the day. Not only within NCT of Delhi but also cutting across all the major suburbs lying in the surrounding states...
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THe Metro is a good thing but I think it is tooo expensive for India to scale to a point where it can help allievate the urban transport woes. 1. Does anybody...
Sadly any form of high performance transport system is going to be costly and the fares will therefore be high. A metro that involves tunnels is very costly...
Dude, Keep aside the cost, cos its nowhere in the picture. Every passing day without the metro in Noida, people are virtually dying. I have bought a new swift,...
Dude, You dont get the context of my question or I dont understand what you are saying. I am sick of going to office everyday in Bangalore. I need a Metro line...
Iain, THough I agree with most of what you are saying, I dont think it answers my question completely. Yes I understand it is expensive. My question is what...
Well said Suhas - and imagine the overall burden on the nation if Metro is put in place in all the metros - who is going to bear it - do we have the incomes? ...
I agree with Sudhir. We have a great option available, waiting and further improved by Dr.Rajaram in the Skybus -- but even discussion groups like this are not...
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Well said Mohit. i totally agree re cae for Delhi over Bangalore! I also agree that LRT would be better than the bus corridors in Delhi. ... ...
Hello everyone, A recent news article about the BRT is copied below. Infact this is not the first. After long believing that BRT could be a viable, and lesser ...
I have had doubts for long that a BRT system running along the medians of the road would have been successful in Delhi. More so considering the kind of road...
Dear friends on the group, Last December I was in Delhi and traveled in the Metro during the peak hour, underground as well as on the elevated section. Very...
Mohit and others, My purpose here is not to start a Delhi vs Bangalore or Delhi vs Rest debate. I am trying to look at a solution which will work across India....
Suhas: I agree there is a possibility of substantial cost savings, if some additional thought is applied by our town planners. For e.g. there is no denying...
On LRT I wonder how well meaning those two IIT profs are, when they do not consider LRT at all. The BRT types seem to have a fetish for smart bus stops. In...
Trial runs of the Sky-bus showed that there are safety issues involved. An accident during a trail run resulted in fatality for an engineer of the project....