TIL Desk Business/New Delhi/ Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari’s pet project of a pod taxi service is unlikely to take off soon. The minister has been talking about a seamless ride to millennium city Gurugram from Delhi’s Dhaula Kuan on a metrino or a pod taxi.
The Niti Aayog, the central government’s policy think-tank, is looking at safety aspects of the personal rapid transit project. V K Saraswat, the consultant for the project, is expected to submit his report to the ministry next year.
In the past, the indigenously designed SkyBus was scrapped after the Konkan Railway found it unviable. A water-taxi service on the lines of the one in New York was envisaged from Mumbai to Mandwa, a popular beach destination, but is yet to become a reality.
Recently, the Elon Musk-backed Hyperloop Transportation Technologies said it was ready to build a hyperloop between Mumbai and Pune. The hyperloop runs faster than aircraft at a speed of 1,120 kmph. Industry insiders, however, claimed the hyperloop was yet to be tried out commercially.
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