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Domnic Fernandes continues (Part III) his reminiscence of
Mapusa of the 1950s
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=426
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Hi Francis,
I was there along with my daughter, in Delhi in November 2004, when this
first phase or section of the Delhi Metro was under construction; and the
same was commissioned/inaugrated late last year. I did look into the designs
and the plan as such, as it invoked a lot of inerest in me. The whole system
including everything is very good and first class, comparable to any in the
world.
This Metro is already late by twenty years, I would say; but its good that
it is here at last.
Before this, Delhi had its Circular Metro Railway; and now this. These two
systems will compensate for the absense of Mass Transit Systems in the Delhi
area, whilst Bombay, Calcutta and Madras had mass transit rly systems before
the British left India. Bombay had its first Electrical Multiple Units
Trains running from 1925. So u see, comparatively, how late Delhi is. Good
to know that they are catching up.
To leftist ruled Calcutta goes the credit of having the first underground
Metro in all of India. They were allowed then as the City needed it very
badly; all the Bengalis used to overload their buses so much, that their
buses developed a 'permanent tilt' within a few days of operation. Calcutta
has been the greatest Shitty in the world; thats how the Bengali tongue
pronounces it! For me it means literally as well; since I hace experienced
this Shitty, on and off for some twenty long years.
Coming back to Dehli Metro. readers should also know that its been designed
and built by a consortium of Malaysian and Japanese firms, I think; but I am
not very sure of which firms from which country.
Is it not a shame that Indian priorities have not enabled it to design and
build these systems by itself, more so since having inherited the largest
railway systems in the world, handed over by the British to India on a
platter, so to say?
Anyway, good that progress is being made! I hope other cities will also be
enabled and financed by the New Delhi , towards this end. I also hope that
this will help Delhi's notorious Hazy skies disappear, and the SUN will rise
and set, again, throughout the year in the Capital. Then I will go and get
some good Photos which were impossible because of the hazy and foggy skies!
Nasci Caldeira
Melbourne
Down Under
Francis Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
Subject: [Goanet] Yahoo! News Story - New Metro affords a glimpse of
apossible India - Yahoo! News
Date: 11 Apr 2006 05:43:30 -0700
Personal message:
Mario Guava / Nasci etc. Read, and weep !
Francis
New Metro affords a glimpse of a possible India - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/odelhi
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