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What is often forgotten in comparing BTs to airplanes is this: one BT carries several hundred passengers in one trip, while an airplane carries maybe 200 on the average in one trip; so the number of passengers carried in one trip is so much higher for the BT that the BT wins by a clear margin.
Of course, safety must be considered carefully. But safety was an issue even for airplanes. Safety of the slow trains also can't be ignored because of one BT project.
Was an 80s' kid and distinctly remember people saying that the Maruti would not work on Indian roads for it would not survive in an accident, unlike the (horrible imho) Ambassador. See what happened!
Perhaps not directly related to this topic, but reducing the price of petrol by Rs. 2 is a joke (and it actually hurts the environment imho). To really help the middle classes (most of whom work in the pvt sector or are self-employed), give significant income tax breaks, clear up the NPAs in the PSBs, and shut down SAIL, BHEL, and the CSIR (a very unproductive agency that nobody talks about).
But if Mallya can still keep getting bail & can't be extradited, then is any change really going to happen?! Long sigh.....
Efforts should be made by Government to rectify various ailments afflicting the Indian Railways which affects general public, instead of creating a white elephant of Bullet Train that will be used only by rich people, that too belonging to few cities.
Tardiness is a different conversation.
The larger point is, do you never want to see India develop, where *nobody* has to travel by such trains? Somebody below has put it more succinctly: “both safety and modernisation†are needed.