{"id":508970,"date":"2022-07-26T12:36:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T07:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=508970"},"modified":"2022-08-04T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:30:13","slug":"kochi-metro-under-pressure-to-reduce-ticket-rates-to-increase-ridership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kochi-metro-under-pressure-to-reduce-ticket-rates-to-increase-ridership\/","title":{"rendered":"Kochi Metro under pressure to reduce ticket rates to increase ridership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Struggling to achieve its full potential, the Kochi Metro is under pressure to reduce ticket rates, including that of trip passes. Such a move, experts reckon, will help improve ridership. Many regulars on the metro have raised the issue of overpriced trip rates, forcing a large number of prospective travellers to stay away from the public utility. They say the Kochi Metro\u2019s aim of achieving one lakh daily commuters will remain elusive if the current rates are continued with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Struggling to achieve its full potential, the Kochi Metro is under pressure to reduce ticket rates, including that of trip passes. Such a move, experts reckon, will help improve ridership. Many regulars on the metro have raised the issue of overpriced trip rates, forcing a large number of prospective travellers to stay away from the public utility. They say the Kochi Metro\u2019s aim of achieving one lakh daily commuters will remain elusive if the current rates are continued with.<\/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-508970","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\/508970","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=508970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}