Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Rail

Essay - Metro Rail

  The rapidly growing population, expanding cities, and heavy rush, as a result of rapid industrialization and urbanization has led to the need for the cheap and convenient modes of conveyance for the public transport, especially in the metro cities. A well planned Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) such as the Metro Rail forms the lifeline of the cosmopolitan cities which have a population in thousands of Lakhs. The government must decide the metro model for a population region depending on the basis of the region's logistics, financial resources, population. It should avoid aping metro models of the other countries. The fact that the metro projects are meant to serve the cities with more than four million population needs to be kept in mind. The costs associated with these projects are decided on the basis of the metro project being underground, elevated or at ground level. Larger the underground and elevated proposal, larger shall be the cost involved. The funding of the metro pro...