successfully test Mumbai Monorail system

[Vasily Zaytsev]

I think Mumbai is unique as far as rail transport is concerned.

Mumbai has/will have three types of rail network systems for commuters....

1. Metro (Underground rail system)

2. Local (On ground rail system)

3. Mono Rail (In the air or elevated rail system)


I don't know any city in India which will have such a system .......... any city in the world which has such system, if you could tell........................there may be some...

 

[Filmmaker]

Nice pics, will bring relief to local train commuters in Mumbai

 

[OrionHunter]

The question is: WTF were we doing for the past half a century? We've woken up from deep slumber - finally. If only our political netas and babus had the vision of doing this decades ago, there wouldn't have been so much chaos on the roads today! Our public transport system sucks in most cities. Just look at our buses...

This trash is what is operating in the Metros today. Forget the smaller towns. And this after more than 60 years of our Independence!! What were we doing all this time? Poodle faking! And we call ourselves an emerging super power!!! Jeeez!

My friend arrived from France on his first ever trip to India the other day and whilst driving to the hotel in Chennai he was aghast at the pathetic state of the buses! He took out his camera and clicked dozens of shots of these museum pieces! He couldn't believe his eyes seeing these shoddy looking tin-cans belching smoke and running on treadless tyres - like derelicts of a bygone age!!

 

[harpoon]

The question is: WTF were we doing for the past half a century?

Experimenting with half baked socialist ideas. Thanks God for the 1991 crash.

 

[acetophenol]

Move aside boys. Nobody beats Kerala in infrastructure daydreaming. While you Mumbaikairs and Delhites are gloating on your metro & monorail , we Keralites are aiming for bullet train that too from Japan.


The government has decided to go ahead with preparation of detailed project report for the High Speed Rail Corridor connecting Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod trains speeding more than 200 kilometres an hour.



Though there were apprehensions about the feasibility of the project, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, which conducted the feasibility study, has given a positive report.

The all party meeting, convened by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy here on Monday, agreed with the government, in principle, on going ahead with the project and preparation of the detailed project report. The meeting was told that a loan could be raised from Japan International Cooperation Agency for the project. The loan would carry an interest of 1.5 per cent (payable in Yen).

The Opposition sought details of the feasibility report and the Chief Minister agreed to make an executive summary available within ten days. Opposition Leader V. S. Achuthanandan, who was among leaders of various political parties who attended the meeting, queried the government about the interest rate on the loan.

The project is to take off by April next year and fully commissioned by March 2020. Each train running along the route will have eight coaches (six motorised coaches and two trailers attached to the motorised coaches at both ends). They could carry 817 passengers per trip. The total cost of the project will be about 1,18,000 crore on completion, Chairman and Managing Director of Kerala High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd T. Balakrishnan said.

The Hindu : States / Kerala : High Speed Rail Corridor set to become reality

ejj malayaliya?

 

[Deepak123]

Is bullet train project on track or shelved.

I read in news that bill for constituting "National High Speed Rail Corporation" is coming in Budget session next month.

 

[livingdead]

I think Mumbai is unique as far as rail transport is concerned.

Mumbai has/will have three types of rail network systems for commuters....

1. Metro (Underground rail system)

2. Local (On ground rail system)

3. Mono Rail (In the air or elevated rail system)


I don't know any city in India which will have such a system .......... any city in the world which has such system, if you could tell........................there may be some...

London has all the three I guess.
Mumbai is much more crowded.

 

[airuah]

chennai....plans for monorail in phase 2 after the metro rail gets completed . the local trains are already there

 

[Deepak123]

There are many cities in India getting both Metro Rail and Monorail but the thing is Mumbai will be the first in India to have all three.

Mumbai need these transport facilities more than any city in India.

 

[CarbonD]

London has all the three I guess.
Mumbai is much more crowded.

London doesnt have monorail, they have normal railways, and underground tube that's it. You should see london streets they dont have space for monorail lol

 

[wmdisinfo]

congrats to india and welldone

 

[Deepak123]

London doesnt have monorail, they have normal railways, and underground tube that's it. You should see london streets they dont have space for monorail lol

Really, can't they put elevated Viaducts on Roads in London.

 

[yoku]

Experimenting with half baked socialist ideas. Thanks God for the 1991 crash.

We should be saying, Killing our own entrepreneurs using License Raj.
Even Chidambaram admitted this in an interview in early 2000s

 

[harpoon]

ejj malayaliya?

Yes..thought you knew.

Anyways reading about the HSR network in Kerala , I am reminded of Srinivasan's famous line " Ethra manoharamaya nadakatah swapnam'(What a beautiful unrealizable dream).

 

[harpoon]

I read in news that bill for constituting "National High Speed Rail Corporation" is coming in Budget session next month.

Talk about misplace priorities. The current trains can be speeded up a lot if goods train can be diverted via special Goods Corridors'..but instead we are ready to spend huge amounts of our precious money on bullet train. I am not against bullet train but do we need it urgently?