Now it doesnt appear so but will be known in future. The project is still in infancy. As for bus services in Delhi, it is complete chaos. Decipline, resposibilty and efficiency cant be introduced within the present system. In fact there is no system each bus owner has his own operational guidelines.
What we need immediately is corporates operated bus services in Delhi. It is a must before C'wealth games. There should be 4 to 6 companies operating within Delhi. Present pvt. bus providers should be restricted to periphery of Delhi and should get discontinued over time. DESU may continue providing fare benchmark and social services like linking hospitals, schools, Govt offices, tourist places etc.
These egoistic academicians and professors think too much of themselves. They do not seem to have much of practical knowledge.
We as public have seen how the road transport has miserably failed in Delhi, the dingy blue lines and all have made travel miserable all these years. The Delhi Government has failed to provide the feeder service. Once it is done people will prefer Metro to the dirty Blue line buses.
It will take time for Delhi Metro to breakeven. Once Gurgaon, Noida and East Delhi are connected then feeder- service requirement will be minimal.
Further I am not quite confident about the proper method used for working the cost per Kilometer. May be some of the items to be capitalised have been added to the expenditure. I am not aware of how it has been calcutated
If some vested interests wish to kill this excellent project then none can stop them as they have done it in Calcutta.
Professors should stay away from opining on Delhi Metro if they are not able to see through the future.
It is not my intention to hurt anyone. But I am of the strong opinion that criticisms should be contructive.
V. Krishnan Quality Control @ Ethical Management Consultant
RE:Delhi Metro, a costly Mistake?
by k on Aug 03, 2006 02:04 PM Permalink
My dear friend, the skybus as you say may be more cost effective initially but has a lot of problems if used in the long run, namely: it has low speed at turns as there is a wheel lifting and even derailments, the track has to be stronger and so does the supestructure and the bus body = increased cost.besides this there is the issue of location and management of the fare collection systems and the security besides the problem of managing 25000 - 60000 commuters passing through the station every hour. can it meet that. the indeginious skybus is still in a testing phase and the MD of delhi metro is one of the brains behind its design by konkan railway, do you not think that he would have proposed it himself if it had been feasible.
Skybus Metro is the solution! It is much lesser in cost/km, much safer and totally indigenous!
I shudder to think what a July-26 flooding would have done had there been a Metro in Mumbai - this is a topic no one would like to talk and even think of.
RE:Skybus Metro is the solution!
by Siddharth Hemmadi on Apr 20, 2006 07:23 PM Permalink
My Friend, pls realise and get the facts right there is nothing indegenous about the Metro and 2nd god save the metro where there is a flood, what do you do for underground sections, im sure we wont really enjoy the swim in it, Pls get facts right before commenting, the only system that is 100% Indian is the Skybus
