Hyperloop a trial project so not in CMP Girish Bapat

  • | Tuesday | 11th December, 2018

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.

PUNE: Guardian minister Girish Bapat on Monday said hyperloop was just a “test project” and so it could not be implemented under the Comprehensive Mobility Plan the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority had made for the next 20 years.“Hyperloop project is only in the test phase and we have to wait for the outcome. So, we cannot propose it,” said Bapat, also the vice-president of the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA), defending its exclusion from the Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP).The CMP is a vision statement of the direction in which the urban transport in the city should go. 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 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. Yet, there is no mention of it in the CMP. 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. “It is but obvious that hyperloop is just in a testing phase. Moreover, the feasibility for humans travelling in it, too, has not been tested. 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. The plan stated that by 2026 the test track of hyperloop from Gahunje to Ozarde would be operational.

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