{"id":456003,"date":"2021-12-14T11:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T06:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=456003"},"modified":"2021-12-14T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T06:20:21","slug":"mumbai-metro-sees-two-lakh-ridership-for-the-first-time-since-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbai-metro-sees-two-lakh-ridership-for-the-first-time-since-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai: Metro sees two lakh ridership for the first time since Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Ridership on Mumbai Metro, which operates on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar corridor, has reached the 2-lakh mark for the first time since the pandemic began, but it is still well short of the pre-Covid numbers \u2014 4.5 lakh per day.<br \/>\nAfter the Covid-19 outbreak, the metro line remained non-operational for 211 days. When services resumed on October 19, Metro One registered ridership of merely 12,738, which gradually grew to over 1 lakh on the weekdays in February-March. Once again, in April-May, due to restrictions imposed during the second wave of Covid, weekday ridership dropped below 50,000.<br \/>\nAn official from Mumbai Metro One Private Ltd (MMOPL) said, \u201cIn the beginning of December 2021, weekday ridership improved to around 2 lakh, with the highest ridership [since the outbreak] of 2,02,536 on December 7.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Ridership on Mumbai Metro, which operates on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar corridor, has reached the 2-lakh mark for the first time since the pandemic began, but it is still well short of the pre-Covid numbers \u2014 4.5 lakh per day. After the Covid-19 outbreak, the metro line remained non-operational for 211 days. When services resumed on October 19, Metro One registered ridership of merely 12,738, which gradually grew to over 1 lakh on the weekdays in February-March. Once again, in April-May, due to restrictions imposed during the second wave of Covid, weekday ridership dropped below 50,000. An official from Mumbai Metro [&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-456003","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\/456003","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=456003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}