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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Metro Rail and the City: Derailing Public Transport -Geetam Tiwari

Metro Rail and the City: Derailing Public Transport -Geetam Tiwari

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published Published on Nov 25, 2013   modified Modified on Nov 25, 2013
-Economic and Political Weekly


There is overwhelming evidence to show that capital-intensive metro rail systems serve only a small proportion of the total trips in cities in developing countries such as India. Public-private partnerships have not been very successful, and the Delhi Metro, which is considered to be the most successful project despite falling far short of its projected number of users, enjoys numerous tax benefits not offered to the bus system, which carries at least five times more trips. Metro projects around the country are planned and implemented in isolation without any concern for feeder trips and other modes of transport. In short, the current regime seems to be biased towards the magnitude of capital required for construction of a metro system, rather than the magnitude of its benefits.

Geetam Tiwari (geetamt@gmail.com) teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-XLVIII, No. 48, November 30, 2013, http://www.epw.in/review-urban-affairs/metro-rail-and-city.html


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