Comments on: The IRTS — Revisited

By: Atanu Dey on India’s Development » The Rs 1 Lakh car from the Tatas

Atanu Dey on India’s Development » The Rs 1 Lakh car from the Tatas — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:54:29 +0000

[...] and the Transportation System. 2. An Integrated Rail Transportation System—Part 1 3. An Integrated Rail Transportation System—Part 2 ]

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By: Atanu Dey on India’s Development » An Integrated Rail Transportation System

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:00:18 +0000

[...] transportation system beckons. Are we up to the task? [This post is continued at “The IRTS - Revisited“.] {Related links: See these pictures of Shinkansen (the Bullet [...]

By: Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Trains and the Transportation System

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:42:09 +0000

[...] what I call an “Integrated Rail Transport System” which is worth revisiting. (A followup to that proposition is here.) I think it is time to again argue why an IRTS make [...]

By: Jyoti Iyer

Jyoti Iyer — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:08:47 +0000

Hi Atanu,

Great analogy and lucidly put.As the saying goes, “Penny wise, pound foolish”. Being stingy has hindered India’s development. It is time that the policy makers did a proper cost-benefit analysis, without the Left Front’s involvement of course.

Cheers

By: Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:02:23 +0000

A well thought of argument. Though air travel is becoming cheaper, with airlines offering tickets for Rs.1 + tax, it still is not cheap enough for the average Indian and surely not cheap to transfer goods.
The article made me think, once again of how Bangalore (and the rest of India of course, I just speak for the city I know the most) desperately needs a system like this.

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:42:37 +0000

Interesting numbers, but message sounds familiar. Q: do we need to 4 lane expressway to delivery chicken on the dinning table, raised 700 miles away? Looking at India’s current state and western issues we need non-traditional approach to the solutions. Why do we have to travel? A selective approach of process + technology can make this redundant.

By: Sunil Laxman

Sunil Laxman — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:23:58 +0000

You’ve managed (in your post) to say most of the things I try to say to friends over dinner conversations, and have failed to! A very well thought out arguement…

By: DesiPundit » The IRTS â€” Revisited

DesiPundit » The IRTS â€” Revisited — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:25:12 +0000

[...] basis but then no one is complaining (why should they?). He follows up his IRTS post with more thoughts and simply cannot understand excuses that people offer fo [...]