Sunday, April 24, 2016

4. Feeder system - Electric rickshaws and cars

This proposal is firstly about treating the stations on the bullet train more like airports than like normal railway stations that we are used to.

Will this mean a change in attitude?

I remember my brother narrating an episode during his internship with an architect in Switzerland, where he placed a lot of  benches on the platform of a new railway station design, the architect asked what are these for? 

My brother said, " For People"

The architect asked, "What People?" The concept of "seeing off" was long dead in the west, it is not so in our country where even the swanky T3 in Delhi invites hordes of people for a "look see" visit.



Thus a railway station is more than just a train stop for us, so why not ensure that the feeders are purely electric vehicles in keeping with the bid to reduce pollution around this ecosystem!



Only all-electric rickshaws, all-electric cars (we hope that the Mahindras e2O has competition by then) to be allowed into these new station railway premises. The municipal transport or the interchange metros would anyway have moved into an electric mode by then , we hope!


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