{"id":438093,"date":"2021-09-24T12:05:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T06:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438093"},"modified":"2021-09-24T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T08:07:22","slug":"chennai-sharing-of-rakes-old-timetable-make-suburban-trains-unreliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-sharing-of-rakes-old-timetable-make-suburban-trains-unreliable\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai: Sharing of rakes, old timetable make suburban trains unreliable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: As using the same rake to run suburban trains is causing train delays on Chennai-Arakkonam and Chennai Gummidipoondi routes, commuters have demanded that the railways should streamline operations to improve punctuality. <\/p>\n<p>Suburban commuters have been demanding railways to tweak the timetable which has never been revamped for several years so that the trains can be operated using an exclusive set of rakes at better frequency to cater to more commuters. <\/p>\n<p>Around four lakh commuters used these trains daily during the pre-Covid days. More or less 80% of the commuters are back. A delay due to crossings and congestion on one route leads to further delays on another route because the same rake is more often used to run trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: As using the same rake to run suburban trains is causing train delays on Chennai-Arakkonam and Chennai Gummidipoondi routes, commuters have demanded that the railways should streamline operations to improve punctuality. Suburban commuters have been demanding railways to tweak the timetable which has never been revamped for several years so that the trains can be operated using an exclusive set of rakes at better frequency to cater to more commuters. Around four lakh commuters used these trains daily during the pre-Covid days. More or less 80% of the commuters are back. A delay due to crossings and congestion on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}