11.12.10
My work takes me to and fro Bangalore-Pune at least half a dozen times a year. A decade back, this journey one way meant 24hrs by road or at best 20 hrs by rail. If you were in the productive years, surface transport was ruled out and air travel a necessity. Just look at what changes to infrastructure have done.
We now have 4 laned highways and Volvo/Mercedes buses. Point to point air travel (from my house in Kothrud to downtown Bangalore )takes 7 hours, bus travel takes 13 hrs ( I actual did it in 13 hrs on 6.12 by KSRTC Volvo) and holds promise of 11 hrs once the highway is fully completed.
Ditto on the Pune Delhi sector. Duronto takes you to Del in 20 hrs and holds promise of a 12 hr ride once the rapid corridor comes up in Gujarat.
At this rate,over a period of time,only the snobs and hicks will be travelling by air, at least intra India.Praful Patel then need not oversee the greedy boys!
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