{"id":515632,"date":"2022-08-20T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T06:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=515632"},"modified":"2022-08-20T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T08:15:34","slug":"mumbais-best-gets-indias-first-ac-double-decker-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbais-best-gets-indias-first-ac-double-decker-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai\u2019s BEST gets India\u2019s first AC double-decker bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city received the country\u2019s first unique electric double-decker air-conditioned bus, Switch EiV 22, to be used for public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The bus would be included in the fleet run by BrihanMumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST), the civic transporter of India\u2019s financial capital. The bus was formally launched by Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Switch EiV 22 was designed, developed and manufactured in India by Ashok Leyland. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a need to transform the country\u2019s transport system, looking from a long-term perspective. With a focus on reforming urban transport, we are trying to build a low carbon footprint and high passenger density integrated Electric Vehicle (EV) mobility ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city received the country\u2019s first unique electric double-decker air-conditioned bus, Switch EiV 22, to be used for public transportation. The bus would be included in the fleet run by BrihanMumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST), the civic transporter of India\u2019s financial capital. The bus was formally launched by Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday. The Switch EiV 22 was designed, developed and manufactured in India by Ashok Leyland. \u201cThere is a need to transform the country\u2019s transport system, looking from a long-term perspective. With a focus on reforming urban transport, we are trying to build a low carbon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515632","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}