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10/29/2019
Kolkata metro – the verdict
Chief Operations Manager, Kolkata Metro Railway,
said this in 2005.
“Where the gross annual income of the Metro is roughly Rs.48 crores, its maintenance
cost is a whopping Rs.125 crores.”
“The Metro was designed to decongest the city's roads. I am afraid it has not been able
to do that.”
“Even during peak periods, the capacity utilisation of the trains has been around 70 per
cent, and only 40 per cent in the early mornings.”
“Unfortunately for the Metro, it has to compete with cheaper modes of public transport
such as buses and trams. “
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Delhi metro – the present
70 km. total length.
Making half its revenue and all its profits from renting land.
2005-6 : Operations : Revenue Rs. 113 Cr.
Land rental : Revenue Rs. 296 Cr.
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Only 5 % of Bangalore
will use the Metro in 2012
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Will take 50 to 100 years
For city-wide coverage
Almost 50 % of of Delhi Metro's revenue, and all its profit, comes from
hiring out real estate.
This means a lot of us are going to surrender our homes and businesses,
and we Bangaloreans are going to surrender our parks, heritage buildings,
and heritage streets to the Metro so that it can rent this land out and
balance its losses from operations.
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Will destroy Bangalore
2. If the Metro has solved Delhi's traffic problem, why is Delhi looking again at the bus as the
solution ?
4. Why are only 8 lakh people using it, when the projected number was 20 Lakh ?
Time
1. Are we willing to wait 50-100 years for the traffic problem to be resolved ?
2. There will be continuous construction for the next 50-100 years. For the rest of our
lifetime, are we willing to suffer this disruption in our lives ?
4. If we are doing it for the next generation, did we take their permission to destroy their city
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environment ?
Questions that we should be asking,
but are not
Economic viability
1. Delhi Metro's profits come from hiring out real estate. Is this Bangalore Metro's business
model ?
2. Are we going to lose a whole lot of homes, businesses, parks and heritage buidlings for
this extra real estate ?
3. Does it make sense to build an overground Metro because an underground one would
cost twice the amount of money, even though the former will destroy the city ?
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Questions that we should be asking,
but are not
1. Why are far more cities worldwide building bus systems in preference to metro rail
systems ?
2. Why is it that they are in countries that are far wealthier than us ?
3. Why are Indian cities like Delhi, Pune, Indore and Ahmedabad are building bus systems ?
4. Are we opting for the Metro for some nonsensical reason like buses are not 'posh', and do
not suit a 'world-class city' like Bangalore ?
5. Why a Metro, when our existing bus system can be improved to give us a good solution
in 2 % of the time, at 5 % of the cost of the Metro ?
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Questions that we should be asking,
but are not
How come these cities have or are building a bus based system ?
India - Delhi, Ahmedabad, Indore, Pune
Canada - Ottawa, Vancouver. Peru - Lima
USA - Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, Charlotte, Cleveland, Eugene,
Hartford, Honolulu, San Juan, Santa Clara, Alameda, San Pablo, Louisville, Montgomery,
Pittsburgh
Brazil - Curitiba, Sao Paulo, Goiania, Proto Allegre. Ecuador – Quito. Colombia - Bogota
Indonesia – Jakarta. UK - Bradford, Leeds. Australia - Adelaide, Brisbane
China - Kunming, Fuzhou, Huangzhou, Wuhan, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenyang, Chengdu
Most of them are richer than us, and they thought that they could not afford the
money, time and environmental destruction of the Metro.
How come the buses in these cities carry more people than the metros ?
Singapore : Metro - 12 Lakh passenger trips /day, Bus – 30 Lakh
Bangkok : Metro - 2 Lakh passenger trips /day, Bus – 50 Lakh
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The big question we should be asking
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