With 'Metro Man' E Sreedharan by side, PM Narendra Modi flags off Kochi Metro

[ashok321]

https://twitter.com/x/status/876029002179149825

https://twitter.com/x/status/875945049275604993

 

[nair]

I landed in Cochin the day first piling started..... had gone thru he'll in the next 2 years.... but tell you what this project has decongested the city. and we do not have traffic blocks regularly... This project has widened the roads across the city..... and as a mallu I am happy that the the project has come to existence.... This is not even half of the phase 1.... next extension is till Maharajas collage which should take few months.. .. then it will be till South.. .. a year down the line.... another 2 years petta the end of phase one....

By the way second phase is also about to start From palarivattom to kakkanand for which 40 crores allocated... With that all the Cochin will be covered by metro.... probably the third phase will be till air port.

Congraats to all....

Another metro is also inaugurated today.. . phase 2 of Bangalore.. ..

 

[Mukunda Murthi Rao]

There is some online chatter about E. Shreedharan's name as presidential candidate.

 

[Gessler]

https://twitter.com/x/status/876029002179149825

https://twitter.com/x/status/875945049275604993

The truth is, Kochi would be having a Metro regardless of who's in power when it was started, completed, or otherwise. Once a city grows big enough, it requires a Metro - that's just the natural path of urban development. Even if the communists were in power, it would have still happened.

So I'd ask both the congress & BJP-backers to back off - politicians don't build any metros. They just sign on the dotted line. Whoever is in power when the papers come up, happens to do the signature. That's all.

 

[assassin123]

Finally my city gets a metro

 

[ashok321]

The truth is, Kochi would be having a Metro regardless of who's in power when it was started, completed, or otherwise. Once a city grows big enough, it requires a Metro - that's just the natural path of urban development. Even if the communists were in power, it would have still happened.

So I'd ask both the congress & BJP-backers to back off - politicians don't build any metros. They just sign on the dotted line. Whoever is in power when the papers come up, happens to do the signature. That's all.

Then tell it to the BJP, which came flying to claim a credit.

 

[ranadd]

Next step getting Kozhikode and Trivadrum, their metros.

 

[takeiteasy]

Next step getting Kozhikode and Trivadrum, their metros.

Although it is the capital, Trivandrum is a small city with very good transportation system pre-existing. The UA is small and even places like Malappuram has a bigger UA and richer economy. I believe Kozhikode should get light metro project as it is an old city, the central of Malabar region. The richie rich are all in the Kochi-Kasaragode belt.

Kerala's capital should be Kochi, however during erstwhile princely state merge of Travancore and Cochin, the Travancore rajah bargained with union government to keep Trivandrum as the capital of Unified Kerala (Travancore, Cochin, Malabar) as a condition for merger, since he sensed that Trivandrum as a city is less strategic, surviving on government funds.

 

[ashok321]

The High Court of Kerala is in Kochi and not in Trivandrum.

 

[nair]

The High Court of Kerala is in Kochi and not in Trivandrum.

Jawarlal Nehru stadium os also in cochin What's your point?

 

[ashok321]

Kochi Metro: BJP State President's Ride With PM Modi Kicks Up Controversy

logic behind allowing Rajasekharan, who is not even a panchayat ward member, to travel with Modi.

 

[Soulspeek]

I saw trial running of Kochi Metro while dining in a restaurent in Lulu Mall.. Sight made my mallu heart swell with pride. I am leaving Kerala today but will ride on it next time fir sure.

 

[ashok321]

Jawarlal Nehru stadium os also in cochin What's your point?

Stadium can be anywhere.
Are there any "set rules" for any stadium to be in the capital only?

Why is the SC in Delhi and not in Kochi?

Your question is unintelligent which should have been ignored.

 

[nair]

Stadium can be anywhere.
Are there any "set rules" for any stadium to be in the capital only?

Why is the SC in Delhi and not in Kochi?

Your question is unintelligent which should have been ignored.

Is there any rule that HC has to be in capital city?

 

[ashok321]

Modi (taking credit) vs Kerala Metro explained in the following:

https://twitter.com/x/status/875953520758804480

This is ROFOL:

Is there any rule that HC has to be in capital city?

Why is the SC in Delhi and not in Kochi?

You are avoiding above meaningful question why?