{"id":497559,"date":"2022-06-09T12:32:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T07:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=497559"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T07:02:37","slug":"bengaluru-metro-allows-passengers-to-carry-foldable-cycles-in-last-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-metro-allows-passengers-to-carry-foldable-cycles-in-last-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru metro allows passengers to carry foldable cycles in last coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cycles will be allowed &#8211; but in the last coach only &#8211; the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) said in a press note on Tuesday. Metro users will not be charged a luggage fee so long as they are carrying foldable bicycles that do not exceed 15 kg in weight.<\/p>\n<p>The BMRCL said its new rule is meant to promote a &#8216;green initiative&#8217; after a report by The Times of India said construction work of completed and operational lines had contributed to the felling of about 9,000 trees in the Karnataka state capital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BMRCL is pleased to announce Metro commuters can carry a foldable bicycle in the last coach of Metro train along with their travel. The size of the foldable bicycle shall not exceed 60 cm X 45 cm X 25 cm in dimension and not exceeding 15 kgs in weight,&#8221; the body said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycles will be allowed &#8211; but in the last coach only &#8211; the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) said in a press note on Tuesday. Metro users will not be charged a luggage fee so long as they are carrying foldable bicycles that do not exceed 15 kg in weight. The BMRCL said its new rule is meant to promote a &#8216;green initiative&#8217; after a report by The Times of India said construction work of completed and operational lines had contributed to the felling of about 9,000 trees in the Karnataka state capital. &#8220;BMRCL is pleased to announce Metro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497559","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}