00:0050 minutes?
00:00By 50 minutes, you can reach Abadley University from Merit.
00:04Yeah, I can.
00:05Just look at the speed.
00:06This is actually how fast the train is moving right now.
00:09So we should take a moment to appreciate how majestic these trains actually look.
00:14Your house has increased.
00:15$1.20,000,000.
00:17You're going to go up to $2.000,000.
00:18One hour, two hours.
00:20Also this vending machine.
00:22The seats in the premium one can decline like this.
00:25Yeah, yeah, I'm here in the house.
00:26And I'm committing from there.
00:27I'm in class for 40 minutes.
00:29It seemed like it was around half an hour.
00:31It helped us connect with a larger crowd.
00:33The rent you're giving us, yeah.
00:35We pay for $1.30,000.
00:36We can spend time with our family.
00:43So if you think that a Delhi mayor at RRTS is just a train,
00:46you are probably wrong.
00:54We've got a ticket.
01:00It is not only a response to the burgeoning population crisis of metro cities,
01:04but also has the potential to change where you live and how you live.
01:08The Delhi Merit Regional Rapid Transit System is India's first high-speed regional rail corridor,
01:13which reduces travel time between Delhi and Merit from around 2-3 hours to less than an hour.
01:20So this is what the coach looks like.
01:23These are the seats.
01:24So I've also traveled in the economy class and right now I'm in the premium one.
01:27So just the difference here is that I've noticed is that the seats in the premium one can decline like
01:32this.
01:33These coaches have really nice leg room.
01:34I am 5 feet 11 and I can comfortably stretch my legs here.
01:38Also this vending machine inside the premium coach.
01:43So I was trying to order this diet coat,
01:46but it says out of service.
01:48For the same route,
01:48if you were taking an economy ticket,
01:50it would cost you around 150 rupees.
01:56So for years,
01:57a bigger opportunity meant shifting to a bigger city.
01:59But with the RRTS,
02:01you can live in your hometown and yet achieve your big job ambitions.
02:09Merit is my hometown.
02:11In 2003, I moved to Delhi.
02:13Of course,
02:13all of us have one reason to leave Merit.
02:15It is a professional opportunity.
02:18Rapid train and local metro was one of the biggest reasons
02:22that I thought of shifting here.
02:24And I commute every day.
02:26I go to my office every day.
02:27I stay here with my family,
02:29in my hometown,
02:30with my people.
02:31And life couldn't have been better.
02:34I always wanted to stay in my village
02:36and to work in an MNC,
02:38which was impossible to do.
02:41But with the coming of the RRTS,
02:42this is possible.
02:43I am commuting 30 kilometers from Merit.
02:46There is a town,
02:48Phalaoda.
02:48I have my ancestral home out there
02:50and commuting from there to Ashoknagar.
02:53And it's feasible.
02:54It's happening only because of the RRTS.
02:57I drop in the morning
03:00which takes around 5 minutes.
03:02In the evening, I pick too.
03:04So at what time do you leave office?
03:066.
03:076 o'clock, 6.10.
03:08It takes nothing more than an hour.
03:10It will last half an hour.
03:11It will last half an hour.
03:12It will last half an hour.
03:13It will last half an hour.
03:14It will last half an hour.
03:25This is actually how fast
03:27the train is moving right now.
03:30In Delhi or Gurgaon,
03:32people who live in Delhi
03:33have more rents.
03:34The rent you are giving there,
03:35yes,
03:36I will pay for $30.
03:38I will pay for $30.
03:39I will get the time to spend with my family.
03:41So how much time is it going to take you?
03:43Approx like 50 minutes?
03:45So in 50 minutes,
03:46you can reach Abbey University
03:48from Merit.
03:49Yeah, I can.
03:51How much time is it going to be?
03:51I don't have to go to class from 40 minutes.
03:52I don't have to go to class from 40 minutes.
03:53It was around half an hour.
03:55What would you like to do with your parents?
03:56My parents are also happy for this.
03:59Because if it doesn't happen to be rapid,
04:02I'm going to bike.
04:03They are scared.
04:04Some accidents happen often.
04:07First, I go to rail or bus or rail.
04:10It takes 3 hours.
04:12It takes 4 hours.
04:13There is a car in the parking lot.
04:15There is a car.
04:15There is a car.
04:15There is a car.
04:16There is a car.
04:16It takes 5 days.
04:17You will not give anything.
04:18You will save the whole day.
04:20The whole day will save.
04:20The whole day will save the whole day.
04:21The whole day will save the whole day.
04:23What time is it?
04:24The whole day.
04:24So if you are buying a premium ticket,
04:26you can simply scan your codes on these gates.
04:29And you will get access to this lounge area.
04:33Where you can get some newspaper.
04:35And just chill for a while and wait for your train.
04:38So what I'm going to say now is perhaps going to break the flow of this video,
04:41but it is something that really needs attention.
04:44So there are no street lights under the brand new metro station pillars.
04:48And you have to solely rely on the headlamps of your car or your bike.
04:51Or rely on the shops that are on either side of the road that are actually throwing some light on
04:56the road just to attract customers.
05:00like the speed cars and the traffic tires when facing the off the road.
05:14COMMISSORER
05:14As this, what price?
05:15What price is just for 1事?
05:20The price is early on.
05:22Now it's over 2 crores.
05:24It's been over 2 years.
05:26It helped us connect with a larger crowd in neighboring cities like
05:31Modinagar, Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Indrapuram.
05:35And people who want affordable products are coming to Meret.
05:40Especially this market, because here is Metro Begampool.
05:43Somewhere right there is a bus station.
05:45Just a few steps away, we have this brand new metro station.
05:50What's your deal with Meret?
05:50What's your deal with Meret?
05:51Rp 130.
05:52What's your deal with Meret?
05:53Are people going to bus or will they go to bus?
05:55I've got a lot of time left.
05:57It's different.
05:58It's different.
06:00Now people are going to bus less?
06:01Yes.
06:02So if people are going to bus less,
06:03then you will be able to reduce all of these things.
06:05Well done.
06:08So we are already aware of the struggles Delhi is currently facing
06:11because of its very high population density.
06:15Be it the water crisis, pollution, traffic jams.
06:18So what this RRTS project is perhaps trying to do
06:21is relocate those people living in high density areas
06:25to areas around the national capital region
06:27yet keeping them connected to their offices, colleges, schools
06:31through this rapid transport system.
06:33So we have met this family and all of them are from Chennai.
06:37How do you feel this metro?
06:40I'm from Chennai.
06:42Where are you from?
06:43We are from Meret.
06:43We are from Meret.
06:45You want to do Meret?
06:46Yes.
06:46Why?
06:48So what if sometime later we get such a train running
06:51between Bengaluru and Mysore, Chennai and Velour,
06:54Japan and Ajmer.
06:55Imagine how fun that would be.
06:57So this Delhi Meret RRTS is not just a train,
07:01it's a test case.
07:02If it succeeds, it may redefine how urban cities grow and survive.
07:07Long.
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