India’s shiny new metros are costly white elephants Even in large towns with millions of residents, like Lucknow and Jaipur, they look more like political prestige projects than genuine attempts to transform urban transit
Many say bullet trains in India won’t ever be profitable 🙏🙏
They said the same thing about China’s massive high-speed rail network, which has rapidly grown to become the largest in the world.
They used to say, it’s "way too ambitious and costly".
