Imagine, you board a train in Mumbai, step into the UAE in just 2 hours, pick up gold, iPhones, perfumes and you're back before dinner. Sounds unreal right!
Well, there is a proposal made for an underwater high-speed train by UAE's National Advisor Bureau. A 2000 km tunnel from Mumbai to Fujairah with trains running at 600 to 1000 km per hour. You'd basically cross the Arabian Sea faster than it takes to watch Titanic and it's not just for people. It could transport crude oil to India and send Narmada's water back to the UAE, turning the sea into a futuristic trade corridor. This would help both the countries as India gets Crude Oil for cheap while UAE gets access to the Narmada River water.
But there's obviously some catch. This idea has been around for years and still, no approval, no progress. Just like the Setu Samudram Canal, even Hyperloop, still mostly theory. So why don't ideas like these take off?
Tech, funding, politics, environmental risks, they get in the way. Usually, it's a mix of everything but I feel even if it never gets built, ideas like this stretch our imagination. They push engineers, designers and policymakers to think bigger, which is the first step to building bold and staying ahead of the time.
