Key Highlights
- For many people, glitzy metros have become a sign of development and modernity.
- The absence of metros feels like a slight; their approval, a stamp of urban arrival.
- But we need to step back and ask a crucial question: do cities like Madurai and Coimbatore actually need metro rail systems?
- Or has the metro become an elite-driven aspiration that is fundamentally misaligned with how Indian cities move and live?
- India’s obsession with metros is relatively new but powerful.
