Skybus Metro Hyderabad

Now that Hyderbad Metro project was cancelled and new bids are being called for why dont you bid for this now? Given that there will be proper mayor and hopefully accountable administration, we might get a test track somewhere in hyderabad. What is the status anyway?

Test track constructed in 2004 and tested in Goa. We don't need test track now.

.Well there rests the story. The same conventional metro rail is the current approved option for Hyderabad, they will fix some agency, by giving higher subsidy from the government.

Its not just the government we should approach. If you go public with the help of NGOs working for betterment of hyderabad, we can pull the government to have a public debate about their choice. I saw only internet publicity for this concept. that too nothing after goa accident.

Visionless political leaders can never accept such new ideas unless we have public debates about them in media. Please dont expect them to accept just because we have letters from experts. :)

In spite of offer of grant of Rs 2000 cr from Malaysia, to construct first full scale commercial Skbus metro, to promote Asian technology, in Hyderabad , because it is the inventor's home place, the State and Center did not allow. It happens to be the Prime Minister of Malaysia, who wrote that letter to our respected Prime Minister, in 2005-2006

What's the point of suspending the car below the track instead of having a standard elevated rail line? I don't see the advantage.

Wish you went through the complete presentation- and listened carefully-people die in coaches of railway when they capsize in case of derailment. In Skybus, it is the same railway where the coach cannot capsize nor can escape the rail guidance. WHile high speeds are the same as in railway , since we are able protect lives against risk of derailment and capsizing , we can make the coaches light weight and more payload carried!! You save energy and have improved safety than the conventional one.

Skybus claims that it costs less than a regular rail line to build, emits zero pollutants, can be built in 24 months, would be cheap to ride, is safer than a regular rail line, would be able to carry more passengers than a standard rail line, and would require zero funding from the government. I'm not an engineer, but if all this is true, why isn't it being built?

Lobbies of international industrial houses exporting metros are strong and influence our rulers. We are not yet courageous to be leaders on technology front.

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