“Only the metro can save Bangalore”: the investor warns India against urban collapse without it

India cities suffocate – on traffic, smoke fog, and extension. While Tokyo slides on 4700 km of railways, Bangaluru crawls in 77. Gurugram? Investor Rajish Soné says that the Indian metro must build 10,000 km of urban railways in the next two decades, or that the Indian metro should build ten times more than 10,000 km of urban railways in the next two decades – or that the Indian metro should build ten times – 10,000 km of railways in the next two decades – or risk stopping.

Sawhney’s argument, on X, penetrates noise: Metro rail is not just the infrastructure – it’s survival. “Only the metro can save Bangalore, Georg and other Indian metro,” he wrote, framed the crisis in strict numbers. Comparison: the sprawling tokyo network against the broken crossing in India.

The Nama Metro in Bangaluru, a lifeblood in the city, expanded to 77 km and targeted 220 km by 2030. But for a city that explodes with vehicles and the last inclination options, it is still insufficient. Gurugram backward is further, with only 10 km of metro and 28.5 km in the pipeline.

Even Delhi – the leader of the Indian metro, which is more than 400 km of the path – corresponds to the disappearance of traffic jams and pollution, despite the great gains in passenger transport, real estate development, and complementarity with buses.

Meanwhile, Tokyo shows what is possible. Its network, which has an area of ​​4,700 km, which has been built for decades, and woven between the metro and the suburbs and private in one of the most efficient systems on this planet. It is Gold Standard India has not yet chased.

Sawhney sees the gap as a crisis and an opportunity. “The Indian metro must build together 10,000 km,” books, not only pay for expansion, but for self -reliance. Stadium: Developing a local metro technology, reducing dependence on imports from Korea, Japan and China, and building an industrial industry.

India has grown from 248 km from the metro in 2014 to more than 1000 km today, with 1,000 last under construction. But she is still playing caught.

With the high urban population and roads, the railway metro will not be luxury – this will be the only way to move forward. Sawhney Point is clear: large building, construction quickly, and building here.