{"id":456001,"date":"2021-12-14T11:49:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T06:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=456001"},"modified":"2021-12-14T11:49:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T06:19:48","slug":"metro-ridership-touches-2-lakh-but-still-50-per-cent-less-than-pre-covid-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/metro-ridership-touches-2-lakh-but-still-50-per-cent-less-than-pre-covid-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro ridership touches 2 lakh but still 50 per cent less than pre-Covid times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Mumbai Metro\u2019s ridership, which operates between Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar, has reached the 2 lakh mark for the first time since the pandemic set in but it is still well short of the pre-covid numbers.<br \/>\nDuring the pandemic R-Infra\u2019s Mumbai Metro One remained non-operational for 211 days (March 22, 2020 to October 18, 2020).<br \/>\nA Mumbai Metro One Private Ltd (MMOPL) official said, &#8220;From beginning of December 2021 weekday ridership of Mumbai Metro One improved to around 200,000 with highest post pandemic ridership of 202,536 on December 7.&#8221;<br \/>\nBefore the pandemic, the operational hour was 5.30 am to 11. 30 pm as ridership was 4.5 lakh per day. Currently metro services are avail between 06:30 am and 11:15 pm<br \/>\nAfter resumption of services on October 19, metro one registered ridership of 12,738 only and gradually grew to reach over 100,000 on weekdays of February &#8211; March 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Mumbai Metro\u2019s ridership, which operates between Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar, has reached the 2 lakh mark for the first time since the pandemic set in but it is still well short of the pre-covid numbers. During the pandemic R-Infra\u2019s Mumbai Metro One remained non-operational for 211 days (March 22, 2020 to October 18, 2020). A Mumbai Metro One Private Ltd (MMOPL) official said, &#8220;From beginning of December 2021 weekday ridership of Mumbai Metro One improved to around 200,000 with highest post pandemic ridership of 202,536 on December 7.&#8221; Before the pandemic, the operational hour was 5.30 am to 11. 30 pm as [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456001","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\/456001","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=456001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}