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.
