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Mumbai:  Settle into a pod in a vacuum tube, fasten your seat belt and whizz across to Pune from Mumbai in 20 minutes. Devendra Fadnavis , Maharashtra’s chief minister, believes the regular inter-city traveler will be able to do and afford this by 2024. By the end of 2018, construction is set to begin on a 15-km test track for the Mumbai-Pune hyperloop. For the uninitiated, the Hyperloop is a still-untested high-speed mass transportation concept floated by American entrepreneur and innovator Elon Musk. It involves building a near-perfect vacuum tunnel or tube, a railway track and a vehicle that floats above the track using magnetic levitation. Cargo and—if all goes well—passengers can then be loaded into this vehicle, which accelerates through electric propulsion and picks up speed due to extremely low friction in a vacuum. [caption id="attachment_16228" align="alignnone" width="725"] travel time down to 20 min. with Mumbai to Pune[/caption] If the techn...

Mumbai: The Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train now finds itself in a new controversy with Godrej challenging the land acquisition. In a fresh controversy, Godrej has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the 8.6 acres of land located in Vikhroli area of Maharashtra. The protest from Godrej group comes as the 8.6 acres of land is part of the business house real estate. The land will eat up Rs 500 crore worth of land and so Godrej has asked for realignment of land for the project. Godrej has requested for realignment and even offered alternative land. This will only be possible if the National High-Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC) - the nodal agency executing the project, concurs to realignment. In case if a compromise is not arrived at, Maharashtra government will have to forcibly acquire land for bullet train project. With Godrej jumping into land acquisition problems, resistance for the popular bullet train project increases further. The project is already reeling under issues with regar...

New Delhi: Indian Railways will set up a metro and rail coach manufacturing facility in Latur in Maharashtra on public-private partnership basis. The project is likely it entail investment of more than Rs 1,500 crore, a top rail ministry official said. The official said the investment and the number of coaches the facility will make is yet to be decided. Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and railway minister Piyush Goyal met on Wednesday and, in-principle, approved setting up a rail coach factory in Latur, the official said. The facility will cater to the demands of metro coaches in cities across India along with the captive demand from coming from Indian Railways. This plant would manufacture Electric Multiple Units for suburban trains and coaches for metros. Work on this project will be done on high priority with fast track processing of all approvals. Maharashtra government has offered several concessions, including in land and taxes. Click here to see on portal https:/...

New Delhi: Indian Railways will set up a metro and rail coach manufacturing facility in Latur in Maharashtra on public-private partnership basis. The project is likely it entail investment of more than Rs 1,500 crore, a top rail ministry official said. The official said the investment and the number of coaches the facility will make is yet to be decided. Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and railway minister Piyush Goyal met on Wednesday and, in-principle, approved setting up a rail coach factory in Latur, the official said. The facility will cater to the demands of metro coaches in cities across India along with the captive demand from coming from Indian Railways. This plant would manufacture Electric Multiple Units for suburban trains and coaches for metros. Work on this project will be done on high priority with fast track processing of all approvals. Maharashtra government has offered several concessions, including in land and taxes. Click here to see on portal https:/...

Mumbai: The public accounts committee (PAC) of the state legislature has criticized the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) for its poor planning and for having misjudged the viability of the monorail and the Skywalks. Calling both facilities a “waste of public money,” the statutory committee said none was useful to citizens. In its report filed in the state legislature on Thursday, the committee said that although Phase 1 of the Monorail does not serve people traveling on overcrowded local trains, the government has been conducting safety tests for Phase 2. Mumbai Monorail Started in 2014, the first monorail project in India has caused losses. A response to an RTI submitted in September revealed that the monorail loses Rs3 lakh daily. While officials said that Phase 1, between Wadala and Chembur, covers a number of passengers of 18,000 passengers per day, many experts have described the project as “a getaway for citizens on weekends.” The MM...