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

[V. Setty Pendakur]

A realistic comparison would be Shanghai and Beijing.  Washington, DC does
not have the same catchment area population and neither are car ownership
rates comparable.

Delhi Metro, like several other places, is an empire unto itself and they
can afford to get concerned about major issues such as land use or solvency.
-- 

Best wishes; Setty 

Dr. V. Setty Pendakur
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Honorary Professor, China National Academy of Sciences
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From: <bruun at seas.upenn.edu>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:48:20 -0500
To: <sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org>, <NewMobilityCafe at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [sustran] Re: Delhi Metro - A Transport Planner's Perspective


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


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