A positive editorial in the Business Standard. Do read. http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=10&bKeyFlag=BO&autono=320882&msg=post ...
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Sudhir Badami
sudhir_badami
Apr 23, 2008 10:01 am
Dear Ankur In BRT, they try to increase the bus capacity of the road while decreasing car capacity. The idea is that on the net, it will increase total...
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rajeev_tivari
Apr 23, 2008 10:27 am
... of global ... creeping in ... stage. Dear Sudhir, Can you show some comparison of the efficiencies at generation, transmission and converiosn stages for...
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rajeev_tivari
Apr 23, 2008 10:46 am
... in a ... routes ... Metro. ... expansion ... From the last lines what comes across is as if BRT is being put in place to curtail the expansion of Metro. ...
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Ankur Bhatnagar
ankur_sahab
Apr 23, 2008 1:16 pm
BRT vs Metro is an apples vs oranges debate. They are not comparable. You can only compare an elevated technology with another elevated technology. BRT is an...
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Sudhir Badami
sudhir_badami
Apr 23, 2008 1:42 pm
Apple Vs Oranges debate does not cut ice with me. Metro that is being planned in India is for 4 to 6 coaches running every 3 mnts - max capacity 36,000 pphpd....
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Navin C.R. Khilnani
navinkhilnani
Apr 23, 2008 8:30 pm
I have noticed that work on the Vikas Marg line have come to a halt. Does anyone in this group have any idea why? I have noticed that at a number of point the...
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rajeev_tivari
Apr 24, 2008 4:57 am
... not aligned. ... This may not be the reason as the erection misalignment is removed in final alignment and bolting. I saw huge misaligment at Sec-37 Noida ...
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rajeev_tivari
Apr 24, 2008 7:37 am
An enlightening piece of news came from a TV panelist who is also an MP, at NDTV last night. He told that Bogota has had enough of BRT and is going for a Metro...
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Vishal Mehra
visra79
Apr 24, 2008 7:42 am
Overtaking of buses can be dealt with by disciplining the drivers. After all Delhi Metro is also driven by humans only. But Delhi Metro has new drivers and a...
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rajeev_tivari
Apr 24, 2008 7:52 am
... inherits ... of ... That is why I say there no need of 'BRT'. We can have rapid transit and buses (with all their attendent perils) as well, with all the ...
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Vishal Mehra
visra79
Apr 24, 2008 8:35 am
The BRT fiasco might have been forseen --BRT promotors and IIT profs have not made any secret of their real aims-not to serve the public but to force...
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Ankur Bhatnagar
ankur_sahab
Apr 24, 2008 9:05 am
Dear Sudhir, I am in general favour of buses and not a big fan of Metro. However, we have got to put things in perspective. Comparison with BRT and Metro is a...
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Sudhir Badami
sudhir_badami
Apr 24, 2008 10:36 am
... Metro caters to 2% of commuters in Delhi; BRT will be serving practiaclly all the Bus users as well as NMV users. Metro exists by making it better for...
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Vishal Mehra
visra79
Apr 24, 2008 11:01 am
... What does this 2% mean? Is it supposed to mean that Metro ridership is 2% of all the mass ridership?. The use of word "caters" is misleading. The BRT (esp...
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Sudhir Badami
sudhir_badami
Apr 24, 2008 11:52 am
... Only 2% of Commuters use Metro. A route can take people who can reach Metro stations with ease and least costs. And also at the destination end. Unless ...
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Sudhir Badami
sudhir_badami
Apr 24, 2008 11:57 am
*Scrap BRT ? Why ?* (by Sudhir Badami, Civil Engineer, Mumbai) Let us look at three tables. Table 1 = CO2 Emissions of different modes of transport gm/pass km ...
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rajeev_tivari
Apr 24, 2008 2:25 pm
Whenever BRT is discussed, people end up citing the Bogota example. But here in Delhi BRT there is not much similar to the Bogota TransMilenio. TM has got two...
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iwfrew@...
caley13182003
Apr 24, 2008 4:44 pm
Bus Rt or Metro or suburban railway? It is all a matter of what the potential traffic level is and what facilities it is possible to build. Bogota has...
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Vishal Mehra
visra79
Apr 25, 2008 7:50 am
In Delhi, 37 % Walk & Bike and use NMVs; 18 % use Car; 40 % use Bus; 3 % use Para Transit and 2 % use Metro/Rail Transit. The two-wheeler using population...
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Sudhir Badami
sudhir_badami
Apr 25, 2008 8:27 am
I should have said Cars+MTW i.e. Motorised two wheelers ... -- Regards Sudhir Badami +91 98216 85072 Email ID: badami@..., badami@...,...
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Vishal Mehra
visra79
Apr 25, 2008 9:03 am
we would have worked towards addressing Global Warming and Climate Change issues. What does Global Warming and Climate Change got to do with providing safe and...
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Sudhir Badami
sudhir_badami
Apr 25, 2008 9:24 am
I would suggest you watch "Inconvenient Truth", the documentary by Al Gore. If you already have then I have nothing to add. Either you have something against...
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Vishal Mehra
visra79
Apr 25, 2008 9:34 am
Dear Sudhir, I am a product of IIT-Delhi myself and currently a Scientist. Al Gore is a politician and is subject to all the temptations and complications of...
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Ashwin Hegde
ashwinhedge
Apr 25, 2008 10:01 am
I find it exceptionally hard to believe that the Metro has a emission per passenger-kilometer that is twice that of a bus and comparable to a car (even if it...
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Sudhir Badami
sudhir_badami
Apr 25, 2008 10:14 am
I will only say that if Al Gore's analysis shows bad times in the next 50 years, we could only stretch it to say 200 years. But the fact remains that global...
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Sudhir Badami
sudhir_badami
Apr 25, 2008 10:28 am
The 3 min headway is the operational headway for DMRC (design headway is 2 min 30 sec) - see the DPR. Bus headway could be shorter (20 secs ?) if number of...
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Vishal Mehra
visra79
Apr 25, 2008 10:32 am
Al Gore goes around the world giving lectures in a private jet, takes limo from airport and has built himself a pretty big house (I think 20-30,000 sq feet). I...
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Ajesh AR
ajesh_nitc
Apr 25, 2008 12:17 pm
guys, Will everything be inplace by Dec08 in Noida? The way in which these construction guys are blocking the traffic to get the metro work done is no where...
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rajeev_tivari
Apr 25, 2008 2:45 pm
We are not clear whether we want energy security or reduction in C02 emmission is our aim. I think energy security should be our prime target and we should try...
