What is more important :
saving a few hours or saving a few years ?
Here is the context :
* Delhi-Mumbai train track is 1384 km long
* Of this ,
some 500 km passes through urban area where people / animal can cross
the tracks
* This interference
, forces the trains to slow down ( from its permissible speed of 130
km / hr )
* Govt wants
the trains to run at speed of 160 km / hr
* To enable
this , government has approved construction of 500 km long boundary
Walls
* The plan will cost Rs 500 crore
* Railways is working on a plan to implement a
similar model on Delhi-Kolkata route
Rs 500 crores to save ( may be ) 500 hours of travel
time annually ?
Contrast this with following situation :
* Mumbai suburban
( local ) train tracks , span 465 km ( as per Wikipedia )
* As per the statistics provided under the RTI query, apart
from 6,989
passengers who died after falling from trains,
22,289 passengers succumbed
while crossing the tracks ( trespassing ) ,
during past 10 years
Why cannot Railway consider constructing boundary
walls on both sides of Mumbai local tracks
, in order to save 2200 lives every year ?
If Railway do not have the money ,
Maharashtra Government should provide the funds
As for a cheaper and
faster ( but almost equally effective ) solution , I have sent following emails to the Railway
Minister :
Indian
Railways : A Trillion Dollar Opportunity [
03 Sept 2016
]
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