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Power Electronics Engineer, Loves Nuclear Energy, Infra News, Electric Vehicles, High Speed Trains!

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Kundan Srivastav
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6 years
And finally it is here! What started out as listing all populous cities of India, I finally reached here, after painstaking work over past few weeks - This map depicts almost all the cities in India whose population will be more than 5 lakhs by 2021. 1/n
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India - Proposed HSR Network - Google My Maps

This map depicts almost all the cities in India whose population will be more than 5 lakhs by 2021. Cities in red will have population between 5L and 10L. Blue denotes those that will be between 10L...

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@cassidoo What’s stopping you from coding like this
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A consultant just scored a juicy contract by hyping some viral keywords:
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🚨 Ayodhya set to become the first AI powered Vedic city. MoU signed with Delhi based Arahas Technologies. (TOI)
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The ONLY way to eliminate this traffic congestion is to chop that road down by 80% & lay down 4 new railway tracks along it, with trains running every 5 minutes between Gurgaon & Delhi NO AMOUNT of road lanes will help here
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Madness
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Me: Indian Railway stations need WAY MORE PLATFORMS. Build elevated & even underground, if you need to Insufferable dimwits: imPOSsibLE! nO spACE! tOO CosTLy!! Aaaaaaa mar jaawa Meanwhile Seoul: Underground HSR station + RRTS station + metro station + bus depot + shopping mall
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The MNREGA we need, across barren land in India
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It's so insane that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification
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In just 80 days of operation, Mumbai Metro Line 3 would have reduced as much carbon emissions as the trees being cut for its carshed would have done in their ENTIRE LIFETIME You aren’t serious for climate change. You are a climate change denier. You are an enviro-terrorist
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Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳
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Climate Change continues to create havoc around the country, I had a private Member’s Bill listed in the Winter Session on the need and urgency of creating a Climate Council. But 🤷‍♀️
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This happens when you think long-term & don’t get stuck in stupid questions like: “Why do we need bullet trains? People can’t afford it” Rise above your scarcity mindset
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Is this some joke? Jewar Airport is more than 40kms from Noida but everyone is carrying this report of a ‘14km Pod Taxi’ project, connecting Noida & Airport?? Everyone copying from an original source which had the error? Reminds me of college assignments
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Game-changer Transit Mode: India’s First Pod Taxi Service To Connect Noida Airport to Film City

In Noida, the pod taxi service will connect the Jewar Airport to the upcoming Sector 21 Film City and it will be India's first pod taxi service. , Delhi News, Times Now

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Mumbaikars, this entire red area was supposed to be reclaimed but was left incomplete When will you ask for it again? Reclaim & build our Manhattan here. This congested city needs to spread its arms to accommodate all
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@manishasinghal in case you were wondering, this what your city looks like from 41k feet mans gotta snap something from the air
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Stupid activists & courts in Delhi forced the Qutub Minar metro station to be built almost 2km away from Qutub Minar DMRC had even cited the Colosseum metro station, saying how it can be built so close without issues, but they still opposed & turned it down Rank idiots
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Will Fedder
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It’s funny when people are NIMBYs about rail because they’re worried about the impact of vibrations. The Italians put a subway station and a tram stop at the Colosseum
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Occasional reminder for Mumbai: Colaba HAS to become our Manhattan. Get those cranes out & erect at least a hundred supertalls here Run the Shinkansen south from BKC, all the way to Colaba
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To a Mumbaikar who has lived in Mumbai long enough, it’ll be a MARVEL that one could now travel from Dahisar to Ghatkopar in just 40 minutes, using air-conditioned public transport
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Swarajya
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Mumbai Metro: Final Trial Runs On Line-2A And Line-7 On 27 September, To Launch The Routes For Commercial Use In December
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THIS is how our new buildings should look like. Not glass & cement matchboxes everywhere
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Looks like Shapoorji Pallonji is now racing ahead in constructing the new Telangana Secretariat. The building will likely be ready by October this year.
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Mumbai, please build skyscrapers with some aesthetics Just glass matchboxes all around is too drab, soul-draining & not sustainable at all
@Culture_Crit
Culture Critic
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1 year
MAKE AMERICA GOTHIC AGAIN
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Me: Indian Railway ought to build way more platforms at major stations ‘Real estate not available!’ ‘Too costly!’ ‘We need satellite stations!’ ‘Cannot be done now!’ Me: This is New York Grand Central station. 44 platforms. ALL underground. And it added 8 MORE platforms in 2023
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High time that all such choked mountain stretches are identified, and passenger vehicles be banned on them The state govt should run passenger shuttle buses every 15 minutes on them instead Helps both the environment & the tourists
@rsliveIndia
Rajan Singh
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Manali Road #himachal
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3 years
Won the internet today⚔️
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Amdavad took Anish Kapoor’s criticism of Sabarmati Riverfront to heart. Going to extend it by another 5.8kms
@AmdavadAMC
Amdavad Municipal Corporation
@AmdavadAMC
3 years
Sabarmati Riverfront is all set for a new era of development. The riverfront will be extended by 5.8 Km either side & will have a green promenade, Active Green parks, Open Gym, Play area, Food Plaza & Micro Markets @PMOIndia @CMOGuj @KiritParmarBJP @HiteshBarotBJP @Mukeshias
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It’s still unbelievable that @officialncrtc are building up an entirely greenfield semi-high speed rapid rail system, that too in cities as dense as Delhi & Meerut. Hats off and AMAZING rake!
@officialncrtc
National Capital Region Transport Corporation Ltd.
@officialncrtc
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#NCRTC achieved an important milestone towards bringing in India’s 1st Regional Rail on time, yesterday, #RRTS trainset did a maiden test run on its depot tracks. The trainset was fed by recently charged NCRTC's 25 kV Traction system. @ADB_HQ @NDB_int @AIIB_Official @ut_MoHUA
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This is completely unbelievable😳 Never thought this would be done. Heck I had seen the narrow street outside Malad West station for so long that I didn’t even know it was encroached!!
@Ayush_Shah_25
Nationalist Mumbaikar 🇮🇳™
@Ayush_Shah_25
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 BMC has bulldozed Shops near Malad West Railway Station today morning. This includes the renowned and mighty brand MM Mithaiwala too!! BMC has demolished illegal encroachment!
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Sponsoring 10 copies of @jsaideepak ’s new book: India that is Bharat If Amazon India delivers where you live, let me know. As J Sai Deepak would like to say it, it’s our time now to cast the ‘sword of light’
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The famous Osaka highway ramp through a building! For those unaware, an actual freeway ramp passes through a building in Osaka since the owner wouldn’t part with the building. So they compromised! The freeway LEASES those floors. TRUE MIXED-USE! @rsrikanth05 #IndianTransit
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Jaise inke baap ki hai Metro ‘Environmentalists’ oppose clean nuclear energy, ‘environmentalists’ oppose transit, ‘environmentalists’ oppose densification. Anti-science elite morons Think of it- residents of Powai, built over cut mountains & forests, are environmentalists today
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#Mumbai ’s Metro-6 route must be scrapped, Metro-3 line extended instead, say activists, reports @tanushreevenkat
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Crowded Sabarmati riverfront NIMBYs are insufferable
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Priyadarshini Karve
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@sudhirmehtapune Very interesting image of 'beautiful' infrastructure in a busy city in the most populous country in the world. So where are the people?? Is this image AI generated? Or is the barren concrete landscape drone camera friendly rather than people friendly? @PuneRivers @CitizensPune
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Gorakhpur: Population: ~7.7 lakhs Area: ~226.6 sqkm Density: ~3400/sqkm Nashik: Population: ~21.2 lakhs Area: ~259.1 sqkm Density: ~8200/sqkm If Gorakhpur can get a fully elevated MetroLite, why in the God's name is Nashik is planning a lower capacity MetroNeo (trolleybus)?
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. @Dev_Fadnavis @Devendra_Office became CM of Maharashtra on 31st Oct 2014 MMRDA made this presentation on 1st Jan 2015 stating: all these metro lines will be built phase-wise in Mumbai over many years Except 1 & 9, he started all these projects in his 5-year term itself BASED
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Why India shouldn't fall in the trap of not constructing new mega-projects: The ongoing & oncoming growth is going to be huge, due to the sheer size of the country. Projects like the full-speed High Speed Rail won't be just luxuries, they'll be NECESSITIES! Build them NOW!
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I hope they line the sea defence with mangroves too... they are very effective against tsunamis There’s a new concept of tetrapods too, called tetrapot, wherein a hollow tetrapod is used with mangrove planted inside, combining both natural & man-made sea defence @cbdhage
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Like @PiyushGoyal took up 100% electrification, I hope @AshwiniVaishnaw takes up the Bhagirath task of 100% Kavach signalling across Indian Railways Om Shanti🙏
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This is Berlin’s Spree riverfront Excellently sculpted with stone & concrete. Nothing “local” about it “preserve local environment” seems like a NIMBY dogwhistle, so Indians can’t get good things
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Gonna quote this to those occasional dimwits who cry on my posts: “ughh why do we need more metro lines in Mumbai, there’s already a few planned”
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@travis_robert
Travis R. Eby
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Playing around with @yfreemark @stevevance 's Transit Explorer tool, and every single solid line here in Shanghai has opened since 1993. And seven more lines planned/under construction. Meanwhile NYC's built a handful of stations in that time and just killed a busway yesterday.
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Reminder: @DGCAIndia allows simultaneous staggered landings even on runways separated only 750ft Mumbai can get this parallel runway & a bigger terminal too, if we had political will: -Reclaim airport land (red) -Abandon secondary runway -Relocate T1 (blue) -New runway (yellow)
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3 years
Weep, Mumbai...
@MarkTomasovic
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3 years
Tokyo subway station mapped from above
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Please help me today Twitter. You see that truck with a blue dumper entering from the left in this video? This vehicle crushed my friends uncle and is escaping here. Please help us find its license plate number. It’s a little grainy. Please help us
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1 year
Mumbai - Pune High Speed Rail WHEN???? Please @AshwiniVaishnaw @mieknathshinde @Dev_Fadnavis
@SirishChandran
Sirish Chandran
@SirishChandran
1 year
Horrible traffic jam! Mumbai to Pune expressway is fully jammed right from Khalapur food mall for the entire 20-30km through the ghats, almost till Lonavala. Never seen it so bad! If you’re heading towards Pune, do yourself a favour and turn back.
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Someone at Twitter India is REALLY pissed that @SahilInfra is sharing updates related to India’s humongous ongoing development projects
@cbdhage
Chandrashekhar Dhage
@cbdhage
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@SahilInfra Account again suspended. There must be something wrong with @TwitterIndia .
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. @dixit32273204 Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need...
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Metro Impact: Ridership on suburban local trains dip A MASSIVE 25% drop in passengers recorded at Dahisar & Andheri stations. While passenger numbers dropping is rarely good news but on the death traps that Mumbai locals have become, this is very welcome!
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Mumbai Metro Impact: Ridership on suburban local trains dip

Mumbai metro impact on Mumbai local trains: As per Western Railway (WR) data, ridership at Dahisar station from January 12 to 19 was 5,18,517 while between January 20 and 26 it was 3,47,838, falling...

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“MeTro iS nOt aFfoRdaBLe fOr IndIAnS” - some sad urbanism grads
@OmkarSawantt
Omkar D Sawant
@OmkarSawantt
1 year
Mumbai Metro Line 7 - Wednesday morning. #mumbaimetro #metroline7 #MumbaiMetroLine7 #MumbaiMetro #metro #Bheed #connectivity #Borivali #Andheri #Gundavali #Gundavli
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3 years
My railway nerd bug: “BEAUTIFUL! Now let’s double that Indian Railway mainline!!!”
@KanpurUpdates
Kanpur Updates
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Kanpur Metro gearing up for 28th Dec. launch. 😍 📸© @MohtaPraveenNBT #Kanpur #KanpurMetro @BHiren @marinebharat @cbdhage @OfficialUPMetro
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Repeated reminder: Mumbai Metro Lines 7 & 3 should be connected by a flying junction (underground) Half the trains on both lines can then run all the way from Dahisar to Cuffe Parade, serving high demand areas like BKC The flying junction will avoid trains blocking each other
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Have been going ecstatic watching these videos of Vande Bharat trials. The time has come when Desh is progressing with giant steps at a time. Enjoy the ride -
@ANI
ANI
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#WATCH | Trial run on 3rd rake of Vande Bharat undertaken in Kota-Nagda section (Video source: Indian Railways)
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And looks like you are a f*cking wiseass We can build as tall a skyscraper as reside on this entirely reclaimed city, named “Mumbai”
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@Hemant_ITPro
🇮🇳 Hemant Jain *️⃣
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@Kun_Srivastav Looks like your a civil engineer. What's the maximum height skyscraper can be built on a sea reclaimed land 🤔
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“I don’t think people get burned out due to work. They just get burned out due to the work that they don’t want to do, which is a form of suffering” - @naval
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🚌Tamil Nadu poised to get another EV manufacturing unit, with Ashok Leyland’s e-LCV & e-bus plant. EVs will absolutely dominate the bus & light load commercial vehicle category, due to not-so-high load & predictable range requirements. Boom incoming!💥
Ashok Leyland's EV Arm Switch Mobility To Invest Rs 1,000 Crore In Dedicated Electric Vehicle Plant...

Ashok Leyland’s electric vehicle arm Switch Mobility will invest Rs 1,000 crore in a dedicated electric vehicle (EV) plant in South India, reports Economic Times. The plant will likely be set up on...

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Gujarat’s cities are setting examples for all other Indian cities in town planning Surat, especially, is the leader here. From 1998 to 2018, slum population in Surat went down from 20% to 6.8%. This is even as its population increased from 24lakh to 65lakh in the same period!🤯
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Anurag Jain
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Heartiest congratulations to Municipal Corporation of Surat for becoming the first city in country to finalise 393 residential flats of size 31 sqm each ie 1-BHK in Sachin Area as Affordable Rental Housing Complex (ARHC) for the migrant labour. @CMOGuj
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This is the PERFECT urban aesthetic. Get cars & bikes OFF our footpaths!!
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1)Bangur nagar 2)Goregaon depot. 3)Infiniti,Andheri.
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Feudal mindset pervading in the erstwhile ruling class & journalist types of India cannot be more blatant: 1-day fare of Palace on Wheels was equal to the ENTIRE 17-day fare of The Ramayan Train. Also, you didn’t even ALLOW resident Indians to buy its tickets! @ARanganathan72
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Mayur Shekhar Jha
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Look again. This is Palace on Wheels. Launched by the Indian Railways in 1982. Yes, we did exist before 2014
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The only real tribute to CDS Bipin Rawat will be to initiate the 0.5 front of the 2.5 front war he warned us about A lot of them have showed it imperative today with their actions Om Shanti🙏
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That’s 14 NEW MEDICAL COLLEGES IN UP!😍 Most of which were announced in 2018 & will start functioning with the first batch from next month. Amazing speed!
@theupindex
The Uttar Pradesh Index
@theupindex
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You all have seen pictures of AIIMS established all over the country by Modi Govt. Let's see the pictures of medical colleges being established all over UP by Yogi Sarkar. Medical College, Ayodhya. ~ named after Raja Dashrath ~ established in 2016 ~ first batch started in 2019
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As an HSR stan, I call for it even in places which are still early on the growth curve BUT Mumbai-Ahmedabad was finalised during Congress rule itself & they’ve no love lost for Gujarat REASON? Feasibility study genuinely found HUGE DEMAND It’s rightly the 1st Indian HSR line
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Last hot take 2023 First HSR line should’ve been Delhi-Kanpur ✅ Flights always full ✅ Trains packed - back to back ✅ Massively mobile population centre And most importantly ✅ UP can build (Kanpur Metro in 2 yrs, RRTS, numerous airports) Mum-Ahd could’ve been next.
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Gajab bhaisahab @sssaaagar 😂😂🙏🙏
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🚅My thought on whether India should build its high speed rail network on Broad Gauge (BG)? IT DOESN'T MATTER even if we build Standard Gauge (SG) & rather there are a couple of benefits with SG. But maybe not the ones you are thinking Thread🧵
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Gotthard Base Tunnel World’s longest railway tunnel, at 57 kilometres length. Built for HSR speeds of 250kmph Entire length under the Alps mountains Mumbai-Pune HSR will need tunnels of only ~30km Don’t waste people’s times with such negativity, ignorance & excuses
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@Kun_Srivastav @AshwiniVaishnaw @mieknathshinde @Dev_Fadnavis As if Bichme koi mountain range hai hi nai 😂
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AC Trains se ‘What about the environment?’ Khud AC towers mein kaam karo, AC wale Uber se ghar jao, lekin local waalon ko AC kya mil gayi, ‘what about the environment’ ho gaya?? Aarey mein metro shed nahi, AC wala metro nahi, saala mar jaaye kya sab log tumhare liye???
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@RoadsOfMumbai What about the environment?
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Each @nhsrcl Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train will carry 700 passengers. At 10 services per hour & 16 hour operation, that’s 1,12,000 passengers DAILY, equal to ~50,000 cars off the roads Your letting this project be built will be more environment friendly than any electric vehicle
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Aaditya Thackeray
@AUThackeray
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This evening I had the opportunity to participate in a video call by Industries Minister @Subhash_Desai ji with @Tesla team to invite them to Maharashtra. I was present not because of just the investment but my firm belief in electric mobility & sustainability @elonmusk
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Indian Railways gradually replacing non-AC sleeper coaches with Economy 3AC ones. Great going!
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Indian Railway News : ट्रेनों में स्लीपर कोच हटाकर लगाए जाएंगे इकोनॉमी क्लास कोच, थर्ड एसी के भी...

Indian Railway News रेल प्रशासन ट्रेनों से स्लीपर कोच को कम कर इकोनामी क्लास के एसी कोच लगाने की व्यवस्था करने जा रहा है। मुरादाबाद होकर गुजरने छह ट्रेनों में यह सुविधा शीघ्र शुरू होने जा रहा है। कुछ...

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Dams helped a ton here to save the downstream areas. This science denialism isn’t much different from flat earthers
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Dia Mirza
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Building too many dams in the Himalayas has lead to this. Prayers for the people of Chamoli. Please contact Disaster Operations Center number 1070 or 9557444486 for help. #Uttarakhand
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I shot 2 hours of my sleep yesterday wondering why the mountain railways of India can’t be electrified, turning them into true local commuter-carrying lines, like the Bernina Express of Switzerland:
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Why Japanese are fit even with hardly any exercises? Their lifestyle & cities are built around public transport & walking- allowing to incorporate 6000-8000 steps in a day, easily Nothing against exercises but fixing the basics will also be a great start
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How Japanese People Stay Fit for Life, Without Ever Visiting a Gym

For people stressed or intimidated by fitness culture

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Perfectly put by @AshwiniBhide ji As I have stated earlier too, Mumbai locals’ fast lines are themselves RRTS! And increasing their average speeds would fulfil that role perfectly There are some missing links which need constructing but the basic network is already present
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PowerTrain
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My question to @AshwiniBhide maam about Mumbai RRTS plans at @SwarajyaMag Infrastruture Conclave.
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So Metro Line 2’s BKC station will be right next to the Shinkansen station AMAZING!!!!
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Saurabh Raut 🇮🇳
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#Mumbai #Ahmedabad #BulletTrain 's Mumbai Terminal at BKC Work started on Pkg C1 by @MEIL_Group & HCC JV. and I guess Cranes behind Petrol pump are of @AFCONSInfra for C2 Pics with details mentioned. 1/2 @nhsrcl @Sahilinfra2 @sssaaagar @cbdhage @narendramodi @mieknathshinde
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Say whatever you want of Gujarat, on all economic indicators, it’s clear that it is a powerhouse of India. An engine dragging the whole nation forward, punching waayyy above its weight
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Periodic reminder: The cost of the ‘cheap’ Mumbai suburban railway fare includes the 3000 people dying on its tracks, every year. Each day we buy its tickets, we are paying with few tens of rupees & 8 lives We love Mumbai locals BUT we definitely expect MUCH better from them
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“Delhi-Varanasi project will cost around ₹1.5 lakh crore, while the Mumbai-Nagpur corridor could cost slightly less” If it remains so, that’d be appreciable! It’ll have similar per km cost as Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR, indicating costing discipline. Godspeed!
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It’s crazy how UP simply woke up one day & decided to add 4000km+ long expressways, in a span of just 13 years (2012-2025)… And then more…
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Progress of under construction expressways: 🔸Ganga Expressway ~ 20% 🔸Kanpur Lucknow Expressway ~ 25% 🔸Delhi Dehradun Expressway ~ 35% 🔸Gorakhpur Link Expressway ~ 80% Almost 1000 kms of expressways will be added to the UP’s expressway network by early 2025.
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News shared by @empakshaypatil People are taking autos from BKC to reach Gundavali station (Andheri East) to board the metro to Dahisar! Calling again: Have an arm joining L7 with L3, so the higher demand commercial corridor of Borivali-Goregaon-Andheri East is connected to BKC
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Hello! My friend Farhan Akhtar is suffering from HPV (Hesitation to Pay for the Vaccine). Please contribute to this fundraiser of a very high amount of Rs.2000. This will pay for 3 shots for Farhan, because Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Please RT. Thank you😭
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Farhan Akhtar
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After saying that you were making profit even at 150/vaccine, we will now be asked to pay the most of any country for it. Please explain why @SerumInstIndia
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Situated just 80kms apart, Kanpur-Lucknow rail line should be quadrupled with a spur to connect Lucknow airport (yellow) & 160kmph RRTS service run every 15min With fast & frequent connectivity the entire region can grow as a single synergised Uttar Pradesh Capital Region (UPCR)
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Ideally @HMOIndia should label these outlets as agents of the adversarial neighbouring governments Nothing else explains such hit-jobs, on something with such critical importance to defence needs
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Japan has 10 times cars per capita than India. Tokyo’s GDP per capita is $100,000 Tokyo does fine with these “highways”:
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@Kun_Srivastav 8 lanes are a basic necessity for heavily populated indian cities. We are at just $3000 dollar per capita. India buys 3 to 4 million cars a year. If per capita goes to $10000 dollar, india will buy 10 to 12 million cars a year. This will happen in next 2 decades.
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When you hate cloverleaf interchanges in cities due to the huge amount of already limited space they waste BUT Chennai makes it up by using that space for metro viaducts, a mini bus terminal, food courts, mini parks, creating a good multi-modal urban space
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Kathipara Interchange. Days before the Urban Square was inaugurated..🤩
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Blessed land... -> Highest coal reserves in the world, by FAR -> Highest oil producer in the world -> In the top 5 for proven natural gas reserves (I'm sure they'll climb up even more as more explorations begins) -> And now, they find the largest lithium deposits 🚀🚀🚀
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National Interest
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The U.S. Department of Energy confirmed its discovery of a 3,400-kiloton reserve of lithium in California's Salton Sea, making it one of the largest exploitable lithium deposits in the world.
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We underestimate how revolutionary 45min connectivity from BKC to Shivajinagar (Pune) will be Can’t do this, except with a chartered chopper Won’t cost more than 60000cr all in. MTHL alone cost 18000cr Cost savings will also accrue in avoiding frequent eway & NH48 maintenance
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China’s GDP Base: $14.7T India’s GDP Base: $2.6T As much as one may want to dunk, we shouldn’t lose sight of our own goals first
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🚗 Per kilometre cost of these road tunnels: 450crores 🚄 Per kilometre metro / RRTS tunnels will cost the same ✅ BUT those metro / RRTS runnels will be able to carry TEN TIMES the people as the road tunnels Come on Bengaluru, don’t throw it away!!
@WF_Watcher
Bangalore Metro Updates
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World’s Longest Tunnel Highway Network proposed in #Bangalore to ease City Roads!! What's your opinion Bangaloreans? What do you think! -Pic and article from Times Now
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Nagpur Broad Gauge Metro🧵 Nagpur BG Metro (essentially Nagpur RRTS) plans to begin operations soon, after acquiring 130-160kmph rakes. It’ll use Central Railway tracks radiating out of Nagpur & will be operated by #MahaMetro . After all the phases, network will be this huge: 1/n
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THIS is progress, as this lights up that poor kid’s home with cheap reliable electricity, who has faced intergenerational poverty Not some ragged pseudo-environmentalist’s idea of development, where they want to preserve her poverty to sustain their evangelism/activism
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Chennai Updates
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Construction of unit-6 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant has begun. The first concrete pour happened yesterday. When all units are complete by 2027 the plant will generate 6000 MW of electricity making it the largest power plant in India.. #TamilNadu #Nuclear
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Pune's delayed-by-decades HCMTR (High Capacity Mass Transit Route) should be simply converted to elevated Metro Lite & proceeded with Changing it to a 6 lane flyover (2 lanes for BRTS), is neither High Capacity Mass Transit NOR financially sane (as seen from the failed bidding)
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Mumbai-Goa Vande Bharat soon, trials to begin on Tuesday Amazing news!! Here’s also hoping that Konkan Railway finally comes up with permanent solutions for monsoon, rather than arbitrarily clamping down the train speeds to 75kmph ⁦ @marinebharat ⁩
Mumbai-Goa Vande Bharat soon, trials to begin on Tuesday

The Mumbai-Goa Vande Bharat will be the fourth semi high-speed train from India’s financial capital. Mumbai currently has three Vande Bharat trains: Mumbai Central – Ahmedabad – Gandhinagar Capital;...

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Though it might look that the road is crowded, but those 2 trains are carrying at least 10X the people being driven in cars underneath Opposing the metro means denying people the right to liveable cities & choking people to death on particulates (trees can’t filter those)
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Hyderabad metro night view @HyderabadMojo
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THIS! THIS IS THE NEED OF THE HOUR!!! Price it right & move the general coach across IR to AC general. Our trains can then comfortably speed up beyond 110kmph
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Trains of India
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AC Second Class aka AC General Coach rolled out from RCF for testing !! I've mixed opinions on this concept but let's see how's this implemented, What's Your comments on this ? PC: DBz Railfan #indianrailways
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Once Mumbai-Delhi HSR is fully ready, we’ll have such trains connecting them in 4hr 45mins… Running every hour, they’ll be a pretty meaningful competition to flights, considering all the time spent to reach airports & security lines @nhsrcl TIME TO BUILD!!! @AshwiniVaishnaw
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@TripInChina
1 year
G2 high-speed train is one of the fastest trains between Beijing and Shanghai. 4 hours and 36 minutes, 1318km. Shanghai leaves at 7 am and arrives in Beijing at 11: 36. 349km/h speed through changzhou railway station.
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As I say - Travel on Mumbai locals is subsidised by deaths on tracks There’s nothing noble or “cheap” about it
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InfraStory
@marinebharat
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Delhi vs Mumbai comparison Deaths by falling from train 🔸 Delhi: 2019 - 0 🔸 Delhi: 2020 - 0 🔸 Delhi: 2021 - 0 🔸 Delhi: 2022 - 0 🔸 Delhi: 2023 - 0 🔹 Mumbai: 2019 - 611 🔹 Mumbai: 2020 - 177 🔹 Mumbai: 2021 - 277 🔹 Mumbai: 2022 - 700 🔹 Mumbai: 2023 - 346* till Sept 2023
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The pace at which ⁦ @NIAirport ⁩ Noida Int’l Airport is building up, never fails to amaze me While the idea of Delhi’s second airport, at either Jewar or Hisar, floated for MANY years, they ran like hare once the project actually began rolling Kudos!
Noida: How 3,000 workers are living on site and giving shape to Delhi-NCR’s second international...

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@Kun_Srivastav
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People complain but do not solve for solutions This is the Zion Canyon National Park’s shuttle. Runs every 10mins. No private car can enter the park With such shuttles, if people get off somewhere, they can always hail local cabs. It’s either this or forever choked mountains
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‘urban experts say small cities don’t need metros’ MAYBE you got a dumb lot who don’t know simple stuff like: Smallest city with a metro (& successful) has 1/20th population & HALF the density as Jaipur? Blame the planning but to say our cities don’t deserve is elitist idiocy
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Jaipur, Agra, Lucknow got big status with metros. It’s all pride, no profit or passengers I report...
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🚀Hiroshima recovered from a nuclear holocaust to this, in 55 years 💥Mumbai’s liveability, over the same period, got nuked instead
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Hiroshima 1945 vs. 2020.
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Define ‘phat ke chaar hona’:
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Yogesh Sawant 🇮🇳
@yogeshssawant1
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Huge traffic on Western Express Highway towards Dahisar. Despite of having metro line there is a traffic, where is @Dev_Fadnavis who claimed traffic will be ease once metro is ready and operational. @TOIMumbai #Mumbai @zoru75
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Is it 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 too much to ask that all public buildings in India look as grand as this? Karnataka Vidhan Soudha:
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@Kun_Srivastav
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40% of land required in Maharashtra has been acquired. 7% increase in just 1 month! “82.31 hectares of land of the required 287.53 hectares has been acquired in Palghar, 92.46 hectares of land in Thane of the required 140.32 hectares” BKC still a hurdle!
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Kundan Srivastav
@Kun_Srivastav
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As much as I share @marinebharat ’s anguish for high fuel prices, I don’t think they’re coming down Taxes from petrol & diesel are going to fall off a cliff, as electric vehicles take off It’s the final chance to milk them until governments, worldwide, figure out alternatives
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Now that classical vs modern architecture discussion in Indian context is triggered, let’s start here: Classically-built CSMT station needn’t be redeveloped, only beautified & maintained Modernist-built Habibganj station HAS to be rebuilt Latter gets costly over its lifetime
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Batshit crazy idea & a waste of money Fix the lane markings & carve out lane merging / exits well and Western Express Highway is good to go Why were thousands of crores spent on Line 7 & Line 3 if this humongous highway was to be expanded even more?
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Western Express Highway Mumbai to get 15km elevated corridor at cost of Rs 5,5,00 crore | Mumbai...

To free up Western Express Highway from perennial congestion and allow vehicles to ply seamlessly from Mahim to Dahisar, the BMC is planning an eleva

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@Kun_Srivastav
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Was visible years ago even to a nobody like me, how the push by policy-types to make India a ‘gas-based economy’, without domestic sources, was headed here Still not late. Invest in large-scale electrification, indigenous nuke reactors, & use minimum gas
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Coal is going to be back again as gas becoming unaffordable: FM Nirmala Sitharaman - ET EnergyWorld

Nirmala Sitharaman: "The Western world has seen countries moving to coal. Austria has already said, and today...they are going back to coal," Sitharaman told a group of reporters from India during an...

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Throwback Shinkansen: “Andheri 3BHK 1200sf rent: Rs.80,000 Virar 3BHK 1200sf rent: Rs.15,000 Daily Shinkansen up down to BKC: Rs.1200 (Rs.26,400 per month) You save about Rs.40,000. Every month”
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Kundan Srivastav
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Each @nhsrcl Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train will carry 700 passengers. At 10 services per hour & 16 hour operation, that’s 1,12,000 passengers DAILY, equal to ~50,000 cars off the roads Your letting this project be built will be more environment friendly than any electric vehicle
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Mumbai-Pune: Eway present Mumbai-Aurangabad: Samruddhi eway VERY SOON (thank you @Dev_Fadnavis 🙏) Aurangabad-Pune: Eway under @NHAI_Official Bharatmala 2.0 Pune-Nashik: 6-laning underway Mumbai-Ahmednagar: Needs an eway to complete Maharashtra’s western Golden Quadrilateral
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@TV9Bharatvarsh have a Litti Chokha meter: A good PIE chart for sure. Yeh dekho @ARanganathan72 Sir:
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