Bullet Train Bug Bites Bangalore

After metro rail, the Karnataka government now wants the Bullet train.

It hasn’t even completed the metro rail network in Bangalore yet, but that has not stopping the Karnataka government from making bigger plans. Now it wants the Bullet train. Murugesh Nirani, the state’s industries minister, said during a road show—held in Japan to promote a Global Investors’ Meet in Bangalore—that the Japanese want to invest in high speed rail connectivity a la Japan’s Shinkansen or Bullet Train network. The Indian Railways has sought feasibility studies for a nation-wide Bullet Train project, including one along the Chennai-Bangalore-Mysore route, but Nirani hastened to add that the government’s involvement would only be for acquiring land for laying rails. The state is exploring two high-speed rail projects connecting Bangalore with Belgaum along the existing National Highway 4 and another rail project linking Bangalore with Gulbarga, a north Karnataka town 600 km from the state capital, on the PPP model.

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