What the need is for PR to really become efficient and a huge profit making entity for the government
1-The contract should have included to make these trains locally at carage rebuild factory islamabad. Including track laying machines.
2- The ML-1 track from karachi to islamabad is 1500km. Upgradation would be done in 3 phases as of last report to standard guage. The tracks should be built locally aswell.
3- Speed of 160km/h is reasonable for us considering the old track and time it will take upgrading it. Trains that go 300km/h and above consume double the power to run then those that run 200km. The tracks for it are also very expensive.
4- The japanese financial model should be adopted to keep these trains operating without going into loss. Japanese train companies JR west and JR east earn a big chunk of their income from not the train fares but by renting out plazas, office buildings, shops and residential buildings built near the stations owened by them. PR has huge swaths of premium land in the big cities and this brings me to my fourth point
4- station upgradation of karachi lahore Faisalabad multan rwp and islamabad, including building office tower's and shopping centers near the station on railway land. Earn huge amounts from rents to keep liss a relic of the past
5- many japanese lines(except the main tohoju shinkansen line) run at loss but JR manages to keep running them with minmum fare because they can cover the amount from rents and sales of property.
6- Upgradation of train dry ports, havalian, islamabad, lahore faisalabad multan and karachi. Literally none have gantry crane for unloading cargo containers. They dont have enough capacity to hold containers aswell. Isb railway dry port is literally half full all the time because they have defaulted or siezed containers piled up and no where else to place them.
7-Along with electrification which was included in ML-1 and doubling of track the signal and control upgrades was also mentioned in the fesibility report. Our British era signaling and track switching system will insure trains collision else
7- The ML-1 upgradation also included overhead and underpass construction of all level crossing. We all know very well how pakistan level crossings are. Hundreds die every year and also thousands of farm animals.
8- The feasibility report also included fencing entire line so wander animals and PEoPLE dont come on the electrified tracks!
If these basic things aren’t done which were mentioned in last feasibility report then sorry to say PR will still have a turbulent future ahead.
Some pictures from JR tokyo station. JR owns some of the high rise buildings you see near the station. The kyoto station is literraly like a huge shopping mall building from the outside but includes vast shops , offices and reside
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