{"id":476405,"date":"2022-03-17T10:18:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T04:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=476405"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T05:52:23","slug":"indias-first-rapid-rail-unveiled-promises-delhi-to-meerut-in-55-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-first-rapid-rail-unveiled-promises-delhi-to-meerut-in-55-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s first rapid rail unveiled, promises Delhi to Meerut in 55 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cushioned seats, overhead luggage racks, more standing space and a \u2018premium\u2019 section \u2013 these are some of the swanky features inside coaches that are to be part of India\u2019s first rapid rail, unveiled by the National Capital Regional Transport Corporation (NCRTC) on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) train will run on the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor and cover a distance of 82 km in just 55 minutes. It will also be the first in the country to have a business or \u2018premium\u2019 coach on a regional corridor. <\/p>\n<p>Discussing its modern and commuter-friendly features, NCRTC managing director Vinay Kumar said, \u201cSince the inception of the RRTS project, commuter convenience has been our priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cushioned seats, overhead luggage racks, more standing space and a \u2018premium\u2019 section \u2013 these are some of the swanky features inside coaches that are to be part of India\u2019s first rapid rail, unveiled by the National Capital Regional Transport Corporation (NCRTC) on Wednesday. The Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) train will run on the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor and cover a distance of 82 km in just 55 minutes. It will also be the first in the country to have a business or \u2018premium\u2019 coach on a regional corridor. Discussing its modern and commuter-friendly features, NCRTC managing director Vinay Kumar said, \u201cSince [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476405","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=476405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}