We happen to have a public-sector-only rail system, with low ticket prices on most trains. I don't know how much it costs to keep the majority of routes, subsidized as they are. Maybe the vanity projects with high-ticket prices will help with that. I believe the bigger expenditure perennially has been on personnel, as IR has lakhs of employees. That can't be wished away.

The metro rail projects are separate entities, I guess IR only provides oversight.

Rail is only about a century old. I didn't know we had historic stations. More like Mughal-era and British-era holdovers.

Prefixing left- this and right- that to anything detracts from focusing on it.

You'd be even more shocked that left-wing politicos, who were in power thrice as long, were equally bad and created the mess that has to be managed.

The votes on the other 2 points will tell whether your mentioning Singapore was "engagement" to begin with.

Oh, and. Now I don't need a separate bookmarks app, a separate notes app, a separate todo list app, syncing mechanisms for them, or a mechanism to search through all of them.

I never liked the fact there is a contacts app which other apps can tap into.

I have started using an org-mode file with entries that have tel: or callto: properties. I lose vCard exportability, but I can use the file as-is instead.

Open-source

Yes

Android, Web, and (if necessary) Linux and Windows clients

Emacs on larger devices, Orgzly on Android

Stores contact info locally (i.e. self-hosted)

Yes

Stores contact info securely (encrypted)

Unencrypted, but if you don't allow apps other than syncing apps the permission to access all files, it may not matter as much

Can store in a cloud location (e.g. Sync, Dropbox)

I just have Syncthing set up to sync those files too

Where do you think I live! I wrote about lived experience, maybe you didn't notice that OP just made a blanket statement that neither matched my experience nor is itself experience.

This sounds like armchair moaning. How would you have set up infrastructure ahead of time to have handled that situation?

Respond with an example.

Are there large regions with good population density and existing land use that have good roads designed around those existing holdings, unlike what is done in UP, India?

Upvote if you agree.

And you think that elevated road not useful to the layman taking up space is OK? And the problem is the simple design of the road below, which people use uneventfully everyday with common sense at Indian speeds?

Upvote if you agree.

So, you think that, even when roads and transport policies are co-designed on a clean slate like in Singapore, transport policies wouldn't have influenced road design? When even something as simple as a bus lane has been known to work?

Some guy brings up Singapore, I talk about Singapore, and the guy says it is not on topic.

Apparently, road design has nothing to do with whether public transport is involved or not and in what form.

That's the Internet.

To be fair, buses don't solve last-mile situations like this one, unless you expect the route to become walkable by reduction in car numbers. Even then, I wouldn't begrudge the busy housewife avoiding a long walk with a kid in tow.

Whoa! Cool it.

The mandate isn't from "government". Apparently, the government failed to do much about pollution, so a regulatory body was set up by the courts, which body did some good things (ban diesels) but also some hamhanded things like judge only based on technology age rather than the odometer. Throwing away a ton of steel and manufacturing that has had minimal utilization isn't going to help any.

You should've dissed the people who made scrapping the dedicated bus lane an election issue some years ago. I guess that never made it to the newspapers, and hence wasn't discussed online either.

There are intrepids everywhere! But I agree, this seems like too busy a place to be intrepid at.

Yes, some places are much better than others. Tamilnadu in South India probably has the best public and private bus system as well as the best road quality. Others even in South India are only somewhat good.

Do you even read full messages? They limited car registrations, and have good public transport, because they have to when they are that small.

That junction is unsafe only to car brains. That cyclist was riding the wrong way, which somehow doesn't count?

That elevated road was made to appease outsider car brains, and ate up the space that could have satisfied whatever people here say should have been put up for the benefit of laypersons (who seem to have the fortitude to bear the elevated road hogging space there).

Yet, that elevated road is all right for people here. Right? Otherwise, how could a car-brain third-worldliness pornographer have parked his personal ride on the road above and recorded this!

I think your ire is misdirected, but I agree with the ire. The problem is the elevated road there! It serves car-brain, and that space could have been put to good use for the "low income" people as somebody put it, instead of catering to the "high income" people zooming above in cars.