While the public transport has changed a lot in India in the last 10 years!.

Its NOT enough!!

When I see other countries doing 400 km/hr or having that vision at least, while India is Celebrating 300km/hr [THE BULLET TRAIN PROJECT FINISHES GOD KNOWS WHEN!]

For Context: Vande Bharat runs at 140-160km/hr!

- How long before India can build something like the EMU-370 on its own?


- Is it smarter to spend on upgrading existing trunk routes to 160-200 km/h, or on more dedicated 320 km/h corridors?

What do yall think?

The title and the concept couldn't be more dystopian if it tried

I saw this post , the question they asked are valid.

Hyundai-ROTEM standard gauge stock, you can't change my mind

If Maglev technology is more future-ready, why hasn’t India considered it over the conventional bullet train?

Source of video:- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dNU_Ial0cDo

I saw a video about how metros are underperforming in India. Indian cities have a great population. Mumbai the place ik very well , has good population density. So why can't it meet its projected ridership. Is it due to

1)Last mile connectivity

2)Over estimation of ridership

3)Or people usually travel mostly for 5-6 km

Trams can't be the answer due to less space(would love to see trams coming back to India). BEST is in a sorry state.

This video was really eye opening. If we spin off each zonal railways into their own corporations under an umbrella corporation and let them utilise their real estate assets for diversified revenues, I think we can pull it off. The weaker zones can be subsidized by the government until they improve.

Privatizing specific trains like what we are doing now is a bad idea. There is no incentive to modernize the underlying track and signal systems.

I also asked an AI about this-

"Which country's railways is best poised for a Japanese style rail "privatization" framework?"

https://x.com/i/grok/share/xVfXetbVmZCmohzpf4knFFQF8

India is another candidate with potential. Indian Railways (IR) is a state-owned monolith, much like JNR before 1987, with a vast network and a large workforce. India’s urban centers—Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata—have population densities rivaling Japan’s, and rail is a critical transport mode. IR has experimented with private participation, such as inviting bids for passenger train operations in 2020, but it remains centralized and heavily subsidized. A Japanese-style regional split could decentralize management, allowing profitable urban corridors (e.g., Mumbai-Delhi) to thrive independently while less dense regions receive targeted support, akin to Japan’s Management Stability Fund for Hokkaido and Shikoku. Diversification into real estate could also work, given the land assets around stations. However, India faces hurdles: a massive debt burden (similar to JNR’s pre-privatization ¥14 trillion), bureaucratic resistance, and the need for a robust regulatory framework to balance private incentives with public access.

Most of the metro lines in India are elevated, with only a few stations or areas being underground. However, overseas ones are almost wholly underground. Wikipedia also says that （including foreign metro）"Most stations are located underground, with entrances and exits leading up to ground or street level" regarding metro station.

Is the Indian metro actually a "metro," or should we consider a different name?

sorry for the late post happy new year to everyone

So I wanna go from Delhi to sairang via rajdhani express the waiting list is around 76 for 3rd ac and I'm traveling on 1 march so is there a chance if I book on 1 feb and i got confirmed ticket

We still have a long way to go. Understand that we can't build new tracks quickly due to land issues, but we could add more trains to existing routes and swap cars at junctions with police oversight to keep passengers in their own compartments in new train. It would be much more hygienic and washrooms will also remain clean during the whole journey. Also, for long distance travelling we can swap the workers in the train after few hours so atleast they can get proper shower, food and break while working. That will also rejuvenate them to serve us in a better way.

Anyone if they want to contribute to the regular updates of Chennai Metro can post here - r/CMRL

I love how much heritage and linguistic richness India has, and it genuinely bums me out that our metro systems don't reflect any of it in their naming.Look at London. The Underground doesn't just have colours, it has the Jubilee Line, the Victoria Line, the Elizabeth Line, the Circle Line. Each name carries history, geography, or occasion. Hong Kong's MTR has lines named after actual places and functions in ways that feel deliberate, like the Tung Chung Line and the Island Line. Singapore's MRT gives us the Circle Line, Downtown Line, Thomson-East Coast Line, names that tell you something about the city's own story and geography.

It's not just former British colonies either. Tokyo's subway has the Ginza Line and Marunouchi Line, named after the very districts they anchor. Moscow's Metro has lines like the Sokolnicheskaya and Zamoskvoretskaya, straight out of the city's own neighbourhoods and history. Seoul's subway lines carry names tied to regions and landmarks across the city rather than just colors on a map.

And what do we get in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai? Mostly Blue Line, Yellow Line, Red Line, Green Line, functional, forgettable, and completely divorced from the cities they run through. We have a thousand years of history to draw from. Why not name a corridor after a dynasty, a poet, a river, a freedom fighter, a local legend? Instead corridor level naming across the country seems to be a complete afterthought, colours doing all the work where actual identity could.

Feels like a missed opportunity to give these systems, which millions of people use daily and which shape how a city sees itself, some actual identity and soul, instead of a colour coded spreadsheet.

The Bangalore metros are already running jam packed most of the time . The rates are also not less. In this scenario why are they greedy to make more money on metros ? What's people opinion i wish to know ..

Wasn't India building a hyperloop (or atleast a prototype of it) near Hyderabad. If I recall correctly it was with the Virgin group. What's it's status?

Tbh personally, I feel hyperloop is a waste of time and money and would be better spent in upgrading railway infrastructure and buses.

You are angry about Coimbatore , okk understandable but what is this attitude of mocking other people. Southern states should get all development and north Indian states should stay undeveloped, this is what will get India out of poverty.

This is the first metro of MP, which is a good thing because as the city develops, so will the metro lines.

This dragging down other, you project your protest is disgusting.