Blueprint ready for ₹1 lakh-cr Chennai-Mysore bullet train

Travelling from Chennai to Mysore via Bengaluru will take just 2 hours and 25 minutes as the German government has recently submitted a feasibility study to the Railway Board on a new bullet train project on the Chennai-Arakkonam-Bangalore-Mysore route entailing an estimated investment of over ₹1 lakh crore. The report states that the 435-km distance can be covered less than three hours with a maximum speed of around 320 kmph. The Chennai-Arakkonam-Bangalore-Mysore route will be 85% elevated and will include 11% tunnels. The travel time between Chennai and Bangalore will be reduced by 100 minutes and between Bangalore and Mysore by 40 minutes. The German government studied both mixed mode as well as the dedicated mode and the Railway Board decided that a detailed study of dedicated mode is more viable than that of mixed mode. The Railway Board is expecting that they will be able to ground some passengers from airlines when they see that the travel time has been significantly reduced. Once this kind of high-speed railway network is introduced, trains will be faster than airlines unless one lives near the airport. The other routes across the country on which feasibility studies are being conducted include New Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Kolkata, Delhi-Nagpur, Mumbai-Chennai, and Mumbai-Nagpur corridors.