{"id":488373,"date":"2022-05-02T10:44:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=488373"},"modified":"2022-05-02T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:14:29","slug":"indias-metro-system-might-have-to-look-at-a-sound-financing-model-to-stem-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-metro-system-might-have-to-look-at-a-sound-financing-model-to-stem-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s metro system might have to look at a sound financing model to stem losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has built a metro rail network in 20 cities, stretching 774 km, but we are still grappling with a fundamental question: how to make this capital-intensive, mass rapid transit system financially viable? This has assumed increased significance with Covid-19. For, economic pundits had argued all along that the viability of a metro rail project would depend on the robust income it could garner from non-ticketing sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has built a metro rail network in 20 cities, stretching 774 km, but we are still grappling with a fundamental question: how to make this capital-intensive, mass rapid transit system financially viable? This has assumed increased significance with Covid-19. For, economic pundits had argued all along that the viability of a metro rail project would depend on the robust income it could garner from non-ticketing sources.<\/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":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488373","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=488373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}