Jungibaaz
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I totally disagree, Pakistan is the country that need bullet train the most. We can have a train travelling @250km/hr. running between Karachi -Lahore _ Islamabad, instead of bullet.
We are spending billions on aircrafts, airports, motorways and maintenance of national highways and a non functional railway.
Just bloody politicians like to keep Pakistanis enslaved by one way or another... if railway is privatized than politicians would become irrelevant and there source of earning money would be lost.
I want to know why politicians are so affriad of privatization!
If democracy is not willing to progress than why not the liberate state policy of investment?
There shall be zero tax on building infrastructure and technology, which is no existent and more efficient.
Pakistan will earn out by shifting from low efficiency to high efficiency machines, process & operations.
High speed rail, MAY be a need in the future. When your work force needs and when it becomes viable for you to do so.
A bullet train on the other hand or even today a high speed rail will not be effective.
You've got to learn how to walk before you learn how to run. Pakistan's railways are in a sad state, high speed rails and bullet trains are not the need of the day. It's about priority, build from the bottom up. When we fix up our existing system (which I cal tell you right now, is going to cost us dearly), then we an think about improvement.
GoP does not have the funds to build a high speed rail network. It needs private investors.
But the problem with that is that no private investor in their right minds would want to spend on a high speed rail network in Pakistan. No-one!
For various reasons. But not least, EVERY single private investor has one thing in mind: profit.
In Pakistan a high speed rail is not profitable and is very high risk.
Take the high speed rails and bullet trains in Japan. They cost upwards of 100 USD for a measly 200-300km journey and that too only one way, not return..
Do you think Pakistanis could or would pay that much for the service? Maybe some small percentage some 0.005% might use it once in a while. That is not profitable.
If ever you hear about politicians promising bullet trains, skyscrapers, landing astronauts on the moon. Those are all gimmicks.
The real issues are before you: security, energy, law and order, economic revival, inflation.
Take care of those and you will see bullet trains and skyscrapers springing up effortlessly.