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So in the East, are public transport not subsidized?You already had long debate on this with me, now again came with same west thing...
If you start charging people the actual amount of money, they would not take the transit. It is common sense. They'd rather use the private transport service, which are cheaper since they did not need special roads, safety or any other service offered by public transport.
Lovey Bhai my point was that with the amount of mismanagement of funds going on....any mega project that gives the perception that Lahore is being developed ought to be put on hold. It would've been better if Noora Jr. had begged the Chinese to invest in small-scale hydro-electric dams all over Punjab so that at the very least nearby towns and villages could receive 1 MW of electricity from them.....enough to sustain them.
Having a mega project in Lahore while there isn't anything of the sort going on elsewhere in the province will continue to reinforce the perception that Punjab is Lahore and Lahore is Punjab - In that case no one is going to bother with whether it were the Chinese or someone else who was funding the project. They'd simply ask if Noora Jr. can bring Chinese/Turkish etc investment to Lahore...he could've done the same with other cities of Punjab; no one would be bothered with understanding that the investors have a mind of their own and they decide when and where they'd invest their money.
Perception is all I'm talking about !
You need to realize that it is Lahore that also provides jobs to many people who come from rural areas. It is Lahore that faces smogs (which means flight cancellations), traffic jams, pollution and whatnot. We needed this train back in the 90s, it is long overdue now.
Kindly read other threads about developments in other parts of Punjab (They could have built a new airport/heavily renovate Lahore one, but instead they worked on Sialkot). They are expanding metro bus projects as well. Of course Shahbaz is doing this to win elections (finishing just before elections). A metro train is going to wow majority of Lahore residents and so they will give PML plenty of seats.
India too has many problems and surely they would rather use the money to build smaller projects rather than mega project like trains. But cities need such transit system. You may say "but look, the cost! corruption!" Well, there will still be high combined costs for dams and corruption.
There lives some 6 million people in Lahore, so it not only needs one metro train line, but many more. If it were to me, I'd build this train for elections (who doesn't want to win) and then after being re-elected allocate more funds towards other major, but smaller, cities. Like Sialkot etc.