CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Critical Reasoning questions
CAT/1998
Question . 22
Directions for Questions: Read the information in each question given below and answer the question that follows:
In order to ease the traffic congestion, the transport planners decided to have a sophisticated system of elevated monorail travel in the city. However, it was pointed out by somebody that a metro rail system would be a more effective solution to the traffic problem. The plan was thus stalled. Moreover, since a budget had not been drawn up for the project, it was deemed fit to stall the work of the monorail for some time. In the meanwhile, the traffic planners of the city decided to build an efficient system of subways and flyovers in the city with the aim of easing the same problem. At the instant when the planners were preparing to award the contracts to the concerned parties, the transport planners came up with the contention that the subways interfered with the site of a pillar of the monorail system. The traffic planners had to give up the idea and think of other possible solutions.
On the basis of the above passage, it can be inferred that,
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(c) is the best choice as the sophisticated system of elevated monorail travel was only decided, but another suggestion was given on the metro rail system thus no consensus was reached and the plan was stalled. Also from subsequent sentences, we can infer that there were many later developments that caused a hindrance in the completion of the project. The final sentence suggests that the project will be stalled for a long time.