New Metro Affords A Glimpse Of A Possible India

The new subway is clean, cool, punctual, and orderly - words not often used to describe New Delhi.

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April 12, 2006, 1:00 PM PDT

"Even today, the nearly 40-mile long - and expanding - Delhi Metro system remains on budget and slightly ahead of schedule. It has the capacity to grow to 2 million passengers per day, 60,000 passengers an hour, eliminating the need - in theo- ry - for some 2,600 of the city's wildly driven buses.

...For the time being at least, the Delhi Metro is inspiring a kind of awe among its passengers. At ticket counters, people stand in line patiently, quite unlike the hustle and shoving one finds at a typical Delhi bus stand. The walls and floors are clean, unlike the halls of the typical Indian government ministry, where the reddish stain of paan spit adorns nearly every wall."

FULL STORY: New Metro affords a glimpse of a possible India

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 in The Christian Science Monitor

Community / Economic Development Transportation India

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