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Posted: Jul 11 2014 (15:44)
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Last Response: Jul 11 2014 (16:46)
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Last Response: Jul 11 2014 (16:46)
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Former Railway minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar said on Wednesday that bullet trains, proposed in this year's Railway budget, were not feasible in the country,...
Ideally, railways is the supposed to be a cheap mode of transport. However, I doubt whether this is true in India. While, second class travel can be considered to be cheap, 1A, 2A and 3A classes are very expensive. There are instances where on certain routes, the 1A and 2A classes are actually expensiver than even air travel. Rail travel may never match the speed of Air travel. Therefore, if a flight takes 2 hours to cover a distance, considering the present state of Indian railways, the equivalent journey on rails will be around 20 hours.
Now there is talk about bullet trains, if AC travel at 80-100 km/hr is expensiver than air travel, I wonder what will be the tarifs...
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Now there is talk about bullet trains, if AC travel at 80-100 km/hr is expensiver than air travel, I wonder what will be the tarifs...
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Don't mind.. it's just a joke...
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I think, we should focus to increase avg speed of trains first. In india majority superfast trains runs with 60 km/hr avg speed, so we need to focus to increase the speed of this trains. Also all the single tracks need to covert in to double, prioritise on the basis of traffic.