[sustran] Re: Delhi Metro - A Transport Planner's Perspective

[bruun at seas.upenn.edu]

If a 180 km long network is carrying 1.6 million per day, this can  
hardly be called a failure. This is over double what the Washington DC  
regional metro network of the same length carries, and it is crush  
loaded in parts of the network at rush hours.

I am not surprised that the DMRC doesn't cooperate with other  
organizations. This is always potentially a problem when one creates a  
new private corporation. But keep in mind that without creating a new  
corporation it would never have been built. The existing government  
bureaucracies were incapable of building anything in a timely fashion.  
So the solution is to restructure the organizational relationships and  
build different contractual and organizational structures, not throw  
out the concept of building high capacity systems.

Yes, the overhead rights-of-way can be intrusive, but would it be  
better to build motorways in the sky instead? This is the real choice,  
not feeding starving Indians. If we were to wait in the US until all  
poverty was gone before we built decent PT, we would still be waiting.  
If you can show me a case where the REAL choice is between better  
healthcare, food, or education instead of better transport, I will  
agree that the PT should be postponed.

Eric Bruun


Quoting Faizan Jawed <phaizan at gmail.com>:

>    <http://indiastreets.wordpress.com/author/phaizan/>  Delhi Metro - A
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> At a time when the Delhi Government, politicos, media and the middle-class
> is raving about Metro Rail as a panacea to all traffic woes in Delhi
> (traffic congestion included), an objective assessment of its performance
> and appropriateness is highly warranted. Built at a cost that could provide
> free bus-based public transport, and high quality non-motorized [...]
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