Bullet train: Myths and reality
As Demonetization made millions of new economists, Bullet train repeats same for the transportation engineer. Everyone has own opinion about the bullet train’s feasibility and that’s positive sign for the democratic establishment. But the worrisome thing is that some leading newspaper allows the space for their opinion pages for the person have nothing to do with transportation sector and they placed some misplaced data and facts. So, it’s become more important for us to present right picture and allows people to judge. Myth 1 :- A gentlemen wrote in leading newspaper that: “ The current traffic is only about 18,000 per day, which means that either fare will have to be raised well above airfares, or that the system will have to be subsidized in perpetuity.” Reality:- He wrote “traffic” which is just “Railways traffic”. Mumbai – Ahmedabad transportation mainly dominated by the road. More than 90% of the traffic carried by the road sector. NHAI’s toll data of the Ahm...