{"id":488374,"date":"2022-05-02T10:44:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=488374"},"modified":"2022-05-02T10:44:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:14:54","slug":"rail-based-urban-transit-systems-are-still-the-most-viable-mode-of-travel-for-our-cities-vikas-kumar-md-dmrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rail-based-urban-transit-systems-are-still-the-most-viable-mode-of-travel-for-our-cities-vikas-kumar-md-dmrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail-based urban transit systems are still the most viable mode of travel for our cities: Vikas Kumar, MD, DMRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid urbanisation is one of the primary challenges that our planners have faced over the years. It is estimated that by 2030, more than 40% of India\u2019s population will be living in urban areas. And without a robust infrastructure for mass mobility, no urban centre can grow.<\/p>\n<p>The growth of the economy and the increase in the number of employment opportunities can happen if a city has quality transportation options. In the case of Delhi NCR (national capital region), we have noticed how the metro came and transformed the economic landscape of the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid urbanisation is one of the primary challenges that our planners have faced over the years. It is estimated that by 2030, more than 40% of India\u2019s population will be living in urban areas. And without a robust infrastructure for mass mobility, no urban centre can grow. The growth of the economy and the increase in the number of employment opportunities can happen if a city has quality transportation options. In the case of Delhi NCR (national capital region), we have noticed how the metro came and transformed the economic landscape of the region.<\/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-488374","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\/488374","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=488374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}