Skybus principles

if conventional railways dont fall off coz of wind, I dont see how this will be affected by the elements. In fact, this is much safer than conventional rails.

Very Practical.

Mr Rajaram,
why not propose this for a city in Gujarat? Ahmedabad is going for BRTS but Surat/Baroda/Rajkot/Jamnagar could get this. If modi is convinced, he will get it through no matter what comes in the way. I support this technology because for me Indegenization is preferable to imported technology even if it is a little less perfect.

The Skybus rail based system is actually more advanced and improved railway than what our country's lobby is promoting. Indian engineers stll are living in British era of mental slavery! I did propose to Narendra Modi too, that we can provide the Skybus based system much superior and cost effective solution to cities of Gujarat. Obviously IAS lobby is from Delhi is strong to prevent the same. You can quote me and write to local editors too!

In that case, why not propose this to a business group instead of proposing to state governments. Like proposing to Reliance for example and leave it to businesses to get it implemented by babus. Since Skybus is more cost effective it would interest business groups more too. AFAIK you have approached state governments only but impressing the businesses with relevant contacts could help us get it implemented.

You are absolutely right. I did write to Anil/Mukesh/and Tata Sons. The problem is our industrialists go by what government promotes and accepts.Finally Anil Ambani could not achieve the financial closure- now the entire metro project of Mumbai is again made a government company project. Our people never learn the lessons- Mallya too earlier failed in Bengaluru and Karnataka has now a government company tinkering with the unviable old style metro rail.

I think conventional metro is too expensive for grassroots people and affordable only for upper middle class for regular travel. It cannot be a success. I fear auto companies do not sabotage public transport projects in India like they did in US.

Just an idea to keep the technology alive, if you forget the city transport and provide local transport with skybus within privately owned campuses, theme parks and large SEZs you could BY-PASS need for govt permissions. e.g. transport within Navi-Mumbai SEZ which is big in area, transport within steel plants spread over big areas(SAIL, Tata Steel etc), Port Overhead Container handling system. Also try overseas markets too, why just India? Try S.Lanka, B'desh too.

i think you should try to implement first in some very small towns where there is no chance of a metro or monorail to be implemented by the government.. once (and if) u have established its feasibility, then the technology can be rolled out in other places as well.. i first heard about this technology 6 years ago.. sad to see nothing has come of it yet

I dont own. I have donated my IP rights to Government of India! All of you can decide! But why waste money on obsolete metro rail when you have improved Skybus metro Rail- so long as Newton's laws work on the planet which is proven in Metro rail, the Skybus also is equally acceptable. Why Mumbai should waste thousands of crores?