Japan's bullet trains meet India -- though everyone should use one too

One of the more famous things we've seen from India is a pretty wild rush hour (lots of videos and images online if you're curious). Riding a train in India is pretty dangerous. Either you're all cramped (to put it lightly..) or the train is at risk of totally breaking down to start with.

India is looking to build a bullet train with the help of Japan (obviously, who else?) India's new bullet train will connect Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The cost of the train will be a $14 billion loan repayable over the next 50 years. But not everyone's excited for this decision. Critics say that the money would be better used to improve already existing train infrastructure in India, which carries 23 million passengers a day (=Australia's population).

Is the criticism of the bullet train fair? Hell yeah!

"The capacity has gone up hugely in the last 50 years but demand has gone up much faster than that," said Dheeraj Sanghi, an engineering professor and co-founder of the Indian Railways Fan Club.

"As a result, we do not have time for checking if there are any faults," he said.
Train derailments happen regularly. Half a dozen were reported in the past month alone -- including one at New Delhi station a few hours before Modi and Abe attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the bullet train.

Around 30,000 Indians died in railway accidents in 2015, according to official data.

"The system is overstretched, overstressed and [that] has a direct impact on the safety," said Debolina Kundu, a professor at India's National Institute of Urban Affairs.

So the big question becomes,

1. Which decision will India get more infrastructural use out of that can translate to growing their economy?
2. What foreseeable growth would Ahmedabad and Mumbai find if the bullet train were implemented?
3. In general, train systems kind of suck in the US. But do they suck enough for us to shell out money for bullet trains?

Feel free to share any other thoughts.