The highway in question is cratered with potholes due to shoddy, cut-rate roadwork that disintegrates at the first sign of inclement weather.
The worst part? There’s a train between those same two cities, but the state of the railways in this country is beyond the pale, ironically because the government is pretending to invest in shiny new roads that…are cratered with potholes and disintegrate at the first sign of inclement weather.
Wow I’m shocked that right wing religious extremists are shit at governing!
Why’s there a lot of India focused content on fuckcars for the past few days? Genuinely curious! First, there was this post regarding an incident on Uttar Pradesh and now this.
That’s mostly my doing. I live here, and I have to bear witness to my people becoming more and more carbrained by the day as the government bends over backwards to cater to corporations and rich people with fancy cars at the expense of the gigantic majority who rely on public transit, bicycles, or just walking to get to where they need to go. I hate it.
The sub is pretty low traffic, and you’re not a particularly prolific poster, but I guess it’s enough to tip the scale of people going “wait a minute”. It’s good to have you here, and hoping sanity prevails. It’s crazy the amount India has changed from being pedestrian friendly to being a sort of car nightmare.
low traffic
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Thanks for contributing - it’s good to get a perspective outside of the usual North America/Europe duopoly.
Thank you sharing. It is interesting to see perspectives from all over the world.
Given the size, wealth, and density of India, I expected the list of underway and upcoming train projects to be much longer and ambitious. Of course, the hyperloop project is… special.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_rail_transport_in_India
I also expected there to be more high speed rail going on. There’s at least one actual HSR route being constructed, but a very long list of “maybe nots” built up. Once the single route goes into service, India will have 300km more HSR than the US does (which is zero):
https://themetrorailguy.com/high-speed-rail-projects-in-india/
The current government isn’t focusing on the trains ordinary people need (local trains with lots of unreserved compartments), because these are subsidized and run at a loss. They are running IR like a private company, trying to build vanity projects and put out more luxury trains with surge pricing so they can make money. Also replacing historic stations with crimes against architecture.
Mamata Banerjee ran the rail ministry for five years without raising the ticket price by one rupee, and she’s, well, Mamata Banerjee. How come the current geniuses can’t do this?
Given the size, wealth, and density of India
The latter two are heavily tilted in favor of the ultra-rich elite (who prefer to fly or drive) and major cities (packed to bursting with people, overloading existing transit systems), and then there’s rampant greed and corruption to contend with.