KOLKATA: The record spike in diesel prices had an almost immediate impact on the transport sector on Thursday with buses going off the road and app-cab surge prices touching new records. People were found stranded at bus stands for a long time. Many were spotted jostling for a foothold in buses. With the demand for cabs rising, the fare went through the roof.
\nPrices of essentials also stayed high on Thursday. Some retail markets faced a supply issues. Behala market on Thursday received no truck carrying potatoes. \u201cA majority of goods vehicles have increased the fare abruptly. Naturally, vendors often found carrying costs unreasonable, leading to new supply issues in some markets,\u201d said Kamal Dey, president of the West Bengal Vendors\u2019 Association.
\nThe cab fare, which was pinching anyway, is now burning a much bigger hole in the pockets of riders. The surge fare has almost become a constant throughout the day. The app-cab fare from Behala to Howrah, which hardly exceeds Rs 250 during peak hours, hovered around Rs 500-Rs 700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KOLKATA: The record spike in diesel prices had an almost immediate impact on the transport sector on Thursday with buses going off the road and app-cab surge prices touching new records. People were found stranded at bus stands for a long time. Many were spotted jostling for a foothold in buses. With the demand for cabs rising, the fare went through the roof. Prices of essentials also stayed high on Thursday. Some retail markets faced a supply issues. Behala market on Thursday received no truck carrying potatoes. \u201cA majority of goods vehicles have increased the fare abruptly. Naturally, vendors often […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446321","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}