r/TransitIndia

As I was in India for my last term at Tetr College, I flew to blr last month for a yc startup school. landed, took the metro from kempegowda to indiranagar. ~50rs. Same distance on delhi metro? 20-25 max.

did the math later. namma metro is roughly 2-3x the per km cost of delhi metro. For a city where half the population is already broke from rent, this feels insane.

Delhi Metro is partly indian country govt funded which keeps fares low. namma metro is mostly state + loans so they're recovering costs from riders directly.

end result: bangalore tech bros take uber. metro stays empty-ish. defeats the whole point.

blr ppl, how are you actually commuting? is everyone just eating the cab cost or is there a hack i missed?

I'm curious about this since newer development such as noida seem car centric.

New plan to restrict all intercity private buses to Dahisar (Gujarat, Rajasthan bound) and Mankhurd(rest of Maharashtra, Karnataka) is on the move in Mumbai. These big private buses often clog arterial roads in the city, especially near Dadar. While this would increase the efforts of long distance travellers to use metro/city buses to go to these ISBTs, but a lot of traffic woes can be resolved. It remains to be seen how this shapes up.

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.

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.

Just saw a PIB press release and it states the cities included in phase 1 of the water metro project but no mention of kolkata?

Anyone who has technical knowledge regarding this matter as to why it was not implemented ?

Source - https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2262535&reg=3&lang=2

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

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

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.