My railway budget wishlist

Being a civil servant, I cannot comment on the railway budget but here goes my wish-list. There are a few constraints but again we can't stop thinking citing a few reasons.

First time I travelled to Delhi by train, it's in 2002 and it took 26 hours to reach the destination. Even in the last month same time by the same train. Now I started wondering how fast development is ? Agreed that amenities improved a bit comparatively.

Even I do notice that tracks are generally 2 and are increasing but slowly. Can such a density be handled just by 2. Frequent crossovers interrupt the journey and tend to increase the time. Again time for much quicker implementation.

Still we are in the gauge conversion when many countries are going ahead with bullet trains. Shortly it will be high time we have them.

Mass rapid transit systems are limited to a few cities, what about others fast catching up.............

Compare the basic facilities at Nizamuddin and Secunderabad, the 2nd is far better. With decent effort we can definitely replicate a few across India.

All said and done, there are many positive developments perceivable by us. Scale is both an asset and liability for India, but we need to conquer it with sheer effort.

Mantra would be: more tracks, more routes, more trains, more speeds and more amenities