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Australia's perspective on their Very Fast Train (Brisbane-Melboune)

Plan is to take it to Assam via Bangladesh, and we are sponsoring the dredging in Bangladeshi rivers. One more route will probably also go to Tripura.

Along with dedicated freight corridor.

Incase you haven’t done your research properly... Bullet train is connecting India’s diamond hub to India economic hub. There won’t be any dearth of paying customers, because diamond traders travel to Mumbai quite frequently almost on daily basis. If the ticket price is on par with budget...

@mayfair has clarified that i was wrong in my assumptions.

That was not the talk when project was approved. More or less similar arguments being made now about bullet trains were made about Delhi metro then. Moreover Delhi metro was running in losses inspite of full capacity for many years, probably even now. But the spinoff from Delhi metro is that...

After looking at how Delhi metro and Mumbai metro is being maintained well, I'm sure people will keep it clean. FYI. Bullet trains are chair cars. I haven't travelled in trains for a decade but If I am not wrong chair cars are usually better maintained because of the short travel times.

Same thing was said about Delhi metro. By 2023, India will be 3+ trillion economy. Someday bullet train is bound to come in the country, more it is delayed the more the cost is going to increase.

Regarding worst fear regarding bullet train is the tracks, especially tracks expansion and contraction due to temperature differentials here in India. Technology seems to have gone into train and signalling, tracks seem to be same old technology.

This Train seems to be primarily for diamond merchants who do up and down everyday to mumbai. i am sure surtis will utilise it very well.

Makes sense...........................

Routes are debatable, but I don't think end-end distance cannot be less than 500-600 km. On the issue of pricing I think they probably follow dynamic pricing inline with airline ticketing. Let's wait and see , we might get more info from detailed project report.

Oops, my bad...... I meant the bullet train project ....

I would term JICA as a necessity, it is necessary for increasing the govt's capital spending. It is time we come out of socialistic POV. if this JICA works out, we can be have four more bullet trains in next 20 years. Delhi-chennai, chennai-Kolkata, Kolkata-Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad-chennai

Because we don't have expertise on this subject and money is not an issue. This protocol of getting it done by foreign companies has been done in all greenfield projects. Delhi metro for example was a collaboration, but other metros are domestic.