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**ZZipZZipe** · 12-29-2009, 10:20 PM

All this is to say that the vast Indian Railways, even if antiquated in some aspects, still gets the job done, moving more than 6 billion people across almost 40,000 miles of passenger service...and doing so at a price that your average Indian family can afford.

Out of curiosity, what is the cost of airfare and the accessibility of airports throughout India? One of the main reasons passenger rail is at the level it is currently in the US is because air travel was so cheap, easy and fast and to just about anywhere you needed.

And as a link to it, aeronautics is one of the industries the US still leads in.

So, in part of the discussion, are some of the differences between US and other countries is that air travel is so prevalent?

12-29-2009, 10:20 PM	#21
ZZipZZipe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 482 Senior Member	All this is to say that the vast Indian Railways, even if antiquated in some aspects, still gets the job done, moving more than 6 billion people across almost 40,000 miles of passenger service...and doing so at a price that your average Indian family can afford. Out of curiosity, what is the cost of airfare and the accessibility of airports throughout India? One of the main reasons passenger rail is at the level it is currently in the US is because air travel was so cheap, easy and fast and to just about anywhere you needed. And as a link to it, aeronautics is one of the industries the US still leads in. So, in part of the discussion, are some of the differences between US and other countries is that air travel is so prevalent?
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