{"id":477566,"date":"2022-03-22T12:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T06:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=477566"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T06:42:59","slug":"move-to-run-more-express-trains-with-price-hike-riles-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/move-to-run-more-express-trains-with-price-hike-riles-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Move to run more express trains with price hike riles passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The decision of the Southern Railways to convert nine pairs of passenger trains into unreserved express specials from April 1 has irked a section of passengers as the minimum ticket fare may go up from Rs 10 to Rs 30 for a distance of 10 km.<\/p>\n<p>The passengers from Chennai\u2019s neighbouring districts of Tiruvallur, Ranipet, Vellore, and other parts of the State said the move is an attempt to phase out low-fare trains. Railway officials, however, denied the charge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The decision of the Southern Railways to convert nine pairs of passenger trains into unreserved express specials from April 1 has irked a section of passengers as the minimum ticket fare may go up from Rs 10 to Rs 30 for a distance of 10 km. The passengers from Chennai\u2019s neighbouring districts of Tiruvallur, Ranipet, Vellore, and other parts of the State said the move is an attempt to phase out low-fare trains. Railway officials, however, denied the charge.<\/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-477566","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\/477566","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=477566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}