AS MELBOURNE tinkers with its largely pre-World War II public transport system and puts up with congested roads, commuters in the Indian capital, New Delhi, are revelling in a state-of-the-art Metro. Although India’s average income is only about one tenth Australia’s, its rapidly growing cities are pouring money into new rail networks. Delhi had no metropolitan rail system before part of its new Metro was opened in 2002. Now, authorities expect that, by 2020, it will be bigger than London’s underground. Further read here.
