r/fuckcars • u/destructdisc • 1d ago

Infrastructure gore How Indian Cities Failed Public Transport | A Quint Deep Dive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkNLUZa5INk
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u/Iwaku_Real HSR🏷️$1e+308 per mile 1d ago

They at least have an wildly expansive railway network with over ten times more stations than the US. It's not the best quality but it connects hundreds of millions of people together (and is certainly safer than driving!).

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u/destructdisc 1d ago

Yeah, but it's being run to shit because of institutional and corporate corruption that induces governments (federal and state) to favor infrastructure corporations that will build highways and bridges to nowhere and provide them with kickbacks

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u/AlexV348 Bollard gang 1d ago

Also mostly electrified

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u/Primary-Can2178 1d ago

Their population density is significantly higher than the US. You can't compare their situation to America. Public transit is an extreme necessity in these places and the areas that don't have them suffer tremendously. Ridership rate isn't even a concern when you build them because every single station is extremely used. 

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u/BWWFC 1d ago

looking at the "now" pic, anyone can see it's just polity begging for "one more lane." you uncaring monsters/s

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u/Iwaku_Real HSR🏷️$1e+308 per mile 1d ago

As Not Just Bikes said in his latest video I wouldn't always take the before-and-afters at face value because they could be misleading. "Now" may or may not just be an unusually heavy traffic jam.

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u/Longjumping-Wing-558 1d ago

India is working on Subway networks in nearly every major city, Chennai for example has layed down more track and will lay down more track in the last decade than any city in the US as a whole for probably the last 30