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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by spaceman_2020 on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:29PM (#33512772)
India’s physical infrastructure has honestly fallen way, way behind our digital infrastructure.

Absurd that I can go a month in India without ever using cash or cards, order everything I want from anywhere and have it delivered within a day (or even minutes), yet it can sometimes take me 45 minutes to travel 3k and that my car’s suspension breaks down at 50k kilometers because there is no public transport and the roads are filled with sinkhole sized potholes.

Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by ciphol on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:29AM (#33516777)
India's going on a massive metro rail spree and also massively improving intercity rail. Things are significantly improving, though there will always be traffic in a city the size of Delhi or Mumbai.
Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by spaceman_2020 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:43AM (#33517852)
Eh, that has been ongoing forever. Most projects are grossly delayed and over budget. Not a single metro outside of Delhi has any appreciably large metro rail system. Many have been in development for a decade. Projects get routinely stuck in political gridlock or because the builder went bankrupt.

The Bangalore metro project started in 2011. In over a decade, they've managed a paltry 56km of active rail lines - an average of 5km/year. Meanwhile, the city hasn't even had a master plan since 2016 and every government department works on its own without any collaboration whatsoever (resulting in disasters such as railway stations without any proper bus connectivity).

India's bureaucracy and polity will keep holding our infrastructure hostage.

Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by ciphol on Thursday November 10, 2022 @12:58AM (#33542830)
5km per year is higher than any European or North/South American city (except maybe Moscow), I believe.
Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by anaganisk on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @02:35AM (#33528460)
What car are u using that its suspension broke at 50k, our old family car of 15 years never had once broken, an believe me it was used a lot on Indian village roads.