HT, on the slow, slow, slow metro - Jagdeep Desai

Hello,

Some reading matter, on over head metro in Gurgaon

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/DLF-III-residents-are-scared-of-Rapid-Metro/articleshow/6873562.cms

And in HT, on the slow, slow, slow metro

http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Publications/HT/HM/2010/11/06/ArticleHtmls/Can-MMRDA-finish-Metro-work-on-time-06112010003009.shtml?Mode=1

http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Publications/HT/HM/2010/11/04/index.shtml?ArtId=006_001&Search=Y

http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/PUBLICATIONS/HT/HM/2010/11/04/ArticleHtmls/‘Metro-will-miss-deadline’-04112010006001.shtml?Mode=1

The funniest part of MMRDA's 68 per cent complete is the utter illogic and inanity of the statement.

They really need to tell Mumbai how they arrived at this figure, the formula used.

Is it something like this

83 per cent piling complete + 63 per cent pile caps complete + 63 per cent of columns built + 45 per cent of viaducts fitted on 63 per cent of columns + 30 per cent of superstructure of stations + 61 metres of railway over bridge steel truss, ready in Kolkata workshop without drawings approved by Western Railway + signalling hardware complete for despatch + software for signalling being tested in house + few coaches tested  on 50 metre track at 38 per cent complete Versova yard + daily press feeds by MMRDA + plus minus other miscellaneous things = 68 per cent complete

QED

I scream, you scream, we all scream.

Thanqx.

Jagdeep