{"id":476768,"date":"2022-03-19T11:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T06:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=476768"},"modified":"2022-03-19T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T06:19:43","slug":"ticket-gate-hits-child-at-rajarajeshwari-nagar-metro-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ticket-gate-hits-child-at-rajarajeshwari-nagar-metro-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticket gate hits child at Rajarajeshwari Nagar Metro station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In a bizarre incident at Rajarajeshwari Nagar Metro Station, a six-year-old girl was hit on the chest by the automatic fare collection (AFC) gates just as she moved through them. Around 7pm, Ashika was returning from Baiyappanahalli to Rajarajeshwari Nagar with her parents and a family member, who crossed the gate. When Ashika followed her, the flaps closed, hitting her. <\/p>\n<p>She burst out crying, and had to be pacified by her mother and Metro staffers. One of the staffers opened the access gate reserved for staffers and emergency purposes, to let the girl pass. The attempt by a few commuters to bypass the 3-ft ticket rule for children is cited by Metro officials as a possible reason for the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In a bizarre incident at Rajarajeshwari Nagar Metro Station, a six-year-old girl was hit on the chest by the automatic fare collection (AFC) gates just as she moved through them. Around 7pm, Ashika was returning from Baiyappanahalli to Rajarajeshwari Nagar with her parents and a family member, who crossed the gate. When Ashika followed her, the flaps closed, hitting her. She burst out crying, and had to be pacified by her mother and Metro staffers. One of the staffers opened the access gate reserved for staffers and emergency purposes, to let the girl pass. The attempt by a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476768","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}