It is a big mistake in economic terms. You can't judge the success of the metro merely by how sparkling clean and fast it is. A helicopter will perhaps be even faster and more comfortable but can we afford the huge costs when something FAR more economical and almost as comfortable could have instead been put on the roads. THAT is what the article is all about and I congratulate the paper for giving the facts and figures on the BRT System. For the cost of 1 kilometer of Metro we can get 100 kilometers of a full fledged BRT system. The city and country can do a lot with the money that we could have saved thus.
So before more cities make the same mistake lets have an open discussion and not just hype to decide if other cheaper options exist to meet the urgent need of Public Transport in our crowded, congested and auto dominated cities.
