Australian firm offers $16bn loan for high-speed rail projects

[Bilal9]

Was discussing this with dalalermanodi but he disagreed. He thought it’s beneficial and I thought such exorbitant sum could be used to expand regular railway network and locomotive fleet. We could reduce truck usage and use railway to transport output to Chittagong port directly but he disagreed saying there’s no land to build rail from Dhaka to Chittagong port directly.
I thinkbullet trains for bd is useless we need to move people at volume not fast... there’s air transport for that

Outdated information. Last I checked 1k for tea at 5 star hotels in bd now

This guy has not been in Bangladesh for ages....

 

[Saiful Islam]

Why can't we just let South Korea or Japan plan our cities ? Also our infrastructure is meh not bad but the mega projects are being built by foreigners and we really need to start making our own infrastructure and mega projects on our own.

In house expertise would help in the long run, we need to learn to be self sufficient and we need to adopt the qualities of civic/infrastructure work done in other successful nations. Dhaka is a shambles, it has some nice parts where you'd need to scrape your whole bank account, then run down places which seem to always get thrown in a negative light.