INDIA (eTN) – It has long been a dream for India to have bullet trains. Railways traveling 160 to 200 kilometers per hour, linking India metros for residents and tourists alike.
Railway Minister DV Sadananda Gowda has declared that the first dedicated bullet train project will be launched on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route for which many feasibility studies have been conducted. Gowda declared this while presenting his maiden Railway Budget in the Lok Sabha.
He added that other proposed routes for running the new bullet train services include Delhi-Agra, Delhi-Chandigarh, Mysore-Bangalore-Chennai, Mumbai-Goa, and Hyderabad-Secunderabad.
Gowda also referred to Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi’s desire of a “Diamond Quadrilateral” which aims to connect the four metros of the countries with high-speed trains.
