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Elevated or Underground Metro for Pune?

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I am reopening a very controversial and current debate in the blog post today. In the past year or was it two (?), Puneites are really ridden (bed ridden?) with the issue of Metro vs No Metro, Elevated Vs Underground Metro and Metro Vs the Bus Rapid Transit. Have citizens really thought about what we want for the city? or more importantly, have we been given a chance to think what we want in Pune? I, for example, have attended numerous meetings, discussions and even protests to campaign for some issue or the other regarding the Pune Metro. But I, as a citizen of Pune, have failed to understand the issue? And if citizens are to make a conscious choice, that can be made only if we are able to understand the pros and cons of the various options and underlying issues that will directly and indirectly affect us. Here is an attempt to demystify some of what I have understood regarding  the proposed Pune Metro. Readers are free to add to this using the Comments so that we can have a nice