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India's crowded terrain means bullet train to be elevated over 350 kilometres
INDIA may spend as much as US$16 billion - over $1 billion more than expected - on its first bullet train simply to elevate the entire railway, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter, reported Bloomberg.
The plan also includes the addition of 3,360 kilometres of track for freight, first announced in 2005, but 14 per cent of the land needed has yet to be acquired.
Land acquisition hurdles, as well as people and animals potentially wandering in front of trains speeding at 350 kilometres (217 miles) an hour, make the option of an elevated link attractive for the project which is expected to start construction in 2018, the person said.
India is working with Japan to build the 508-kilometre high-speed track from Mumbai to Ahmedabad in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat.
A Japanese-designed Shinkansen train will connect the cities in a project initially estimated to cost INR980 billion (US$14.6 billion), one of India's biggest infrastructure endeavours.
Japan pioneered bullet trains for the 1964 Olympic Games. Since then, roughly 5.6 billion passengers have used the Tokaido Shinkansen, which links Japan's three largest metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.
Some INR15 billion of the project will go to Japan for elements such as train design and signalling, the person said.
India wants local train manufacturing, but local companies are fearful of setting up plants with Japanese partners without the promise of future work, the person said.
The plan also includes the addition of 3,360 kilometres of track for freight, first announced in 2005, but 14 per cent of the land needed has yet to be acquired.
Land acquisition hurdles, as well as people and animals potentially wandering in front of trains speeding at 350 kilometres (217 miles) an hour, make the option of an elevated link attractive for the project which is expected to start construction in 2018, the person said.
India is working with Japan to build the 508-kilometre high-speed track from Mumbai to Ahmedabad in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat.
A Japanese-designed Shinkansen train will connect the cities in a project initially estimated to cost INR980 billion (US$14.6 billion), one of India's biggest infrastructure endeavours.
Japan pioneered bullet trains for the 1964 Olympic Games. Since then, roughly 5.6 billion passengers have used the Tokaido Shinkansen, which links Japan's three largest metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.
Some INR15 billion of the project will go to Japan for elements such as train design and signalling, the person said.
India wants local train manufacturing, but local companies are fearful of setting up plants with Japanese partners without the promise of future work, the person said.
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