[sustran] Re: Sky bus for Mumbai

[Sujit Patwardhan]

15 April 2001

Debi,
Certainly does sound interesting but can one get more details? From where?
Has it been tried anywhere else?
Any initiative in strengthening the public mass transport mode is good news
but it would be good to get all the details.
With  good wishes,
--
Sujit



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At 05:26 AM 4/15/01 +0530, you wrote:
>I have just attended a presentation made by Mr Rajaram,
>Managing Director of Konkan Railway Ltd., on his proposal to
>set up a "Sky Bus" in Mumbai, and other parts of India.
>
>This is a revolutionary concept which will apparently
>provide cheap, clean, non-polluting mass transport to the
>citizens of Mumbai. Capital Costs are estimated at Rs.450
>million per kilometre. Travel costs are estimated at Rs.0.30
>per passenger kilometre. Time required to put up this
>project is 2 years. All components are prefabricated and
>assembled on site.
>
>Maximum capacity of this project is 90,000 passengers per
>hour per direction!!
>
>The Maharashtra Government Cabinet has already approved this
>project in principle.
>
>Sounds good, doesn't it?
>
>Cheers
>
>Debi
>
>-- 

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