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Like i said, it will be a circuitous route but possible. Chennai-Bangalore-Mumbai-Ahmedabad-Jaipur-Delhi.In the corridors you mentioned there is no connectivity between the southern HSR and the northern and western ones. You won't be able to travel from Chennai to Delhi, ideally there should be a Hyderabad-Mumbai corridor to connect all the different HSR.
I mean that is if other corridors are not created. Today a normal train journey from Chennai to Delhi takes 36 hours i think. Even with this merry go round, a passenger will reach faster than train. Now this provided the HSR ticket works out cheaper than air.
What i was trying to say is that basically we can have many of these corridors which basically grids the entire country.
HSR does have a future. I mean i will just talk about Bangalore Chennai Route. Train tickets are always full. Buses always full and we have literally thousands of buses going from Bangalore to Chennai every day. A volvo ride to Chennai is about INR 800. I think we can expect HSR to have a similar price if not less. But look at the sheer number of people who can take the HSR and how fast they can reach chennai and come back after a days work.
Similarly, the Pune-Mumbai-Vadodra-Ahmedabad route is what i can think of.
Today a lot of people including me take our own cars to say Chennai. All this will be cut. This aspect of saving of fuel costs which means foreign exchange should also be considered.