{"id":451513,"date":"2021-11-24T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T03:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=451513"},"modified":"2021-11-24T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T05:30:01","slug":"kolkata-metro-to-reintroduce-tokens-after-discontinuing-it-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kolkata-metro-to-reintroduce-tokens-after-discontinuing-it-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata Metro to reintroduce tokens after discontinuing it due to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kolkata Metro has decided to reintroduce tokens for travel after having it discontinued last year as services shut amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an official said here on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Metro had made smart cards mandatory when it restarted services in September last year after travel restrictions were eased. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tokens are going to be re-introduced on the NorthSouth and East-West lines from November 25,&#8221; the Metro official said. <\/p>\n<p>These tokens will be issued from the counters of all stations as earlier for the convenience of commuters, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kolkata Metro has decided to reintroduce tokens for travel after having it discontinued last year as services shut amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an official said here on Tuesday. The Metro had made smart cards mandatory when it restarted services in September last year after travel restrictions were eased. &#8220;Tokens are going to be re-introduced on the NorthSouth and East-West lines from November 25,&#8221; the Metro official said. These tokens will be issued from the counters of all stations as earlier for the convenience of commuters, he said.<\/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":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451513","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=451513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}