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Namo Bharat expansion to connect Rajasthan with Delhi

Rajasthan is set to become part of the Namo Bharat network as work moves ahead on the Delhi-Gurugram–SNB-Alwar RRTS corridor.

The corridor will begin from Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi and pass through Munirka, Aerocity, Gurugram, Bawal, SNB, Khairthal, and Alwar. Another section from SNB will extend towards  Sotanalat through Neemrana and Behror. Total length - 196km.

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u/PangolinBig2293 — 3 hours ago
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Why Indian Cities still largely rely on bus conductors?

Why do Indian cities still majorly rely on a bus conductor to manually give tickets to passengers? Most of the rest of the world's intra-city buses have largely automated this system to either self validation machines within the bus or at the bus stations (with few exceptional routes). And they use surprise check-ups with a high fine rate to prevent people from hitching a free ride. Having one less person operate the bus can drastically reduce the bus fare or increase revenue that can be used elsewhere (like upgrading the bus stations, or regular bus cleaning or increase the number of buses to reduce load).

Forgive my awful Al thumbnail

Edit1: "Large Population Argument": large population requires a large number of buses. Tokyo has a much higher population compared to most indian cities but they still pull it off.

"Unemployment Argument": With increased saving that can facilitate the increase in the number of buses, The demand for drivers will increase and employment will stay the same.

"Low trust society argument": Low trust society is a symptom caused by bad service. As mentioned, having a surprise checkup with a high fine rate and probable felony charges can be implemented until the trust level increases.

u/HotPuppy420 — 1 day ago
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Mumbai's transportation woes

I saw a video about how metros are underperforming in India. Indian cities have a great population. Mumbai the place ik very well , has good population density. So why can't it meet its projected ridership. Is it due to

1)Last mile connectivity

2)Over estimation of ridership

3)Or people usually travel mostly for 5-6 km

Trams can't be the answer due to less space(would love to see trams coming back to India). BEST is in a sorry state.

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u/OP-Anto69 — 23 hours ago
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The all gray livery of Indian new 200kmph HSR is 1000x better than colour on top ones. and i am excited for that industrial goth baby.

no hate to colour one cause they can colour code these according to eastern bound or west bound or south bound trains or by railway division. There is so much potential for our railways. plz free us from this orange we already know it's your party who did it plz.

u/all-accounts-ban2728 — 1 day ago
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People who happy with chingrighata ..... BJP needs to more for Kolkata Metro

Such is the pathetic state of bengal that people are overjoyed that the new govt has managed to bridge a gap that should have been done years ago.

Why are our expectations so low? Why are we getting pleased so easily?

BJP must do these things to make people believe they are serious about Kolkata metro

Blue line
- Clean and renovate the stations they are dirty,smelly and pathetic
- Remove the hawkers who jam all entrances and footpaths to blue line stations
- Install platform screen doors
- Add ncmc and WhatsApp compatibility
- Add live tracker for metro and increase frequency of metro

Green Line
- Increase frequency in green line
- EXTENSION - santragachi extension and sector 5 to teghoria extension should be added asap.

Orange Line
- Leave chingrighata the pace of work at orange line station construction is pathetic
- just opening till sector 5 stretch wont do they need to open the entire line till Jai Hind as soon as possible

Yellow
- I know work is going on till Miachael Nagar but do we still need to wait years for lines do be complete under the new govt?
- They should target to begin construction for the entire stretch till Barasat no matter how many issues they face.

Purple Line
- As long as purple line remains isolated its full potential cannot be accessed by the people of kolkata
- I know connecting purple line the blue line is challenging due the amount of heritage structure , legal and land related issues but it should be done.
- Why have the not started construction for the extension of purple line till IIM Calcutta

Pink Line
- Let alone construction even the DPR is not ready

If we get happy now BJP will face no pressure to complete other projects only for us to end up with TMC 2.0

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u/According_Isopod2272 — 1 day ago
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Wanted to get a sense of speed for the HSR corridor, so I pitted it against everything from Cars to Usain Bolt.

Feel the Speed!! 🚅

Note: These figures represent the per-passenger cost for energy, fuel, chicken nuggets, or electricity, rather than actual ticket prices.

  • By Car: The average travel distance is 520 km with an average travel time of 8h 10m acc Team-BHP.
    Fuel costs are based on a Petrol Maruti achieving 17 kmpl with 4 passengers onboard.
  • HSR (High-Speed Rail): Covers 508 km in 2h 07m according to public information. Electricity costs are loosely taken at 30 kWh per km at ₹9.8 per kWh, assuming an 8-coach train carrying 750 passengers.
  • Flight: According to MakeMyTrip, the duration ranges from 1h 10m to 1h 30m, so I've averaged it to 1h 20m over a flying distance of 450 km. Fuel costs per passenger in an A320 are calculated at 15.4 liters of fuel at ₹90.4 per liter.
  • Vande Bharat: Covers a distance of 491 km in 5h 30m acc to RailYatri. Electricity consumption is 20 kWh per km acc to TOI at a price of ₹9.8 per unit.
  • Usain Bolt: With an average speed of 9.58 m/s, many tabloids say that Bolt consumed 100 chicken nuggets a day in his prime while running approximately 500m at sprint speeds. At a price of ₹200 for 9 nuggets, Bolt would consume 100 nuggets to run 500m at full speed.
  • Walking: Based on 5 km per day at an average speed of 1.34 m/s. This requires 2,500 calories or 50 nuggets at a price of ₹200 per 9 nuggets.
u/all-accounts-ban2728 — 1 day ago
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Mahalaxmi monorail-Metro skywalk cut short, to stop 200 metres before station

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mahalaxmi-monorail-metro-skywalk-10696425/

Such a shame that Mumbai cannot get a single interchange done right. And then we cry about Monorail being a failed project. 3 major transit hubs with zero connectivity and now when a travelator is being planned, it terminates 200m before right in a busy saat rasta. How incompetent can the planner be to think that this will encourage the metro commuters to use monorail?

If the RoW was such a big issue, a deeper underground tunnel should have been used to ensure connection to metro and local stations as well. But as usual, shortsightedness in planners is rampant!

u/Real-Implement5654 — 1 day ago
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Any update on jewar RRTS

Can't find any latest news articles about jewar RRTS. Is it shelved? Or the approval for construction is pending? How long will it take to complete this project realistically

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u/Affectionate_Eye_119 — 1 day ago
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We don’t have any truly walkable and global city in India.

Before people jump and say Chandigarh, it's a town and not a metropolis buzzing with opportunities. Here I meant cities with at least 5 million population.

You go to Paris, New York, London, Tokyo, Barcelona and even tier 2 foreign cities like Munich, Manchester, Toronto. You see clear patterns:

  1. All of them have dedicated CBDs and skylines

  2. In CBDs there is a very high density of metro and transit

  3. Broad footpaths in good condition and without illegal construction, electricity poles or carts blocking them (dedicated area for carts)

  4. Roads are paved end to end and lane markings are done every few months

  5. No concept of compounds, boundaries or large compound societies.

  6. Manicuring the trees

  7. Riverfront or sea front

  8. People walk and cycle a lot because it's less chaotic and smooth (they do in SEA as well that has weather similar to India)

  9. Pretty museums or galleries every corner

  10. Everyone follows safety protocols especially construction sites

  11. High tension wires are underground.

  12. Focus on architecture and building codes (no ugly low quality construction)

  13. No illegal sprawl

No Delhi, not Mumbai, not Hyderabad fulfil even 50% of the above criteria. The start to having an actual city is teaching people the importance of all of the above things.

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u/Repulsive_Window7093 — 2 days ago
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Seems like the pic is for ‘representation purpose only’

A senior official from Ministry of Railways confirmed that the picture of HSR at Rail Bhawan is just a reference picture.

u/Alternative-Gold001 — 1 day ago
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[Namma Metro] Where is the location of the Nagawara station on the blue line?

While the pink line station is very visible and in much more advance stages of completion, the location of the blue line station isn't clear. Is it going to be located in between the flyover? Or is it going to be far away from the pink line station and be a bad interchange?

u/One-Adhesiveness8448 — 2 days ago
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This could have been ITO, CP, Barakhamba if govt had a vision and dared to open land parcels and increase FSI

Title says it all. When you search delhi on google all you see in dehat uttam nagar pics. When you search any popular city on this planet the first image you see is of a striking skyline. Delhi literally has the best walkways, transit, roads in india among tier 1 cities and yet it looks so dated because of no skyline.

u/Repulsive_Window7093 — 4 days ago