Hyperloop a trial project so not in CMP Girish Bapat

Pune | Tuesday | 11th December, 2018

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It covers all elements of urban transport under an integrated planning process.Hyperloop is a pod-like vehicle travelling through a tube faster than flights. The plan stated that by 2026 the test track of hyperloop from Gahunje to Ozarde would be operational. It does mention Light Metro corridors — a first of its kind project to be executed in the country.Senior state government officials, under the condition of anonymity, expressed serious doubt about the execution of the hyperloop project and did find its exclusion from the CMP as a miss. The government’s urban development department had last month declared the Pune-Mumbai hyperloop project as a public infrastructure project with international consortium DP World FZE and Virgin Hyperloop One as the original project proponents.The bidding has been announced under the Swiss challenge method, which allows the government to invite global firms to bid for the project and challenge the original proponents of the endeavour. It will take a long time,” an official said.The state government’s ambitious project was announced in the Magnetic Maharashtra meet early this year..