{"id":541534,"date":"2022-12-07T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=541534"},"modified":"2022-12-07T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T06:30:39","slug":"south-western-railway-proposes-mumbai-like-suburban-rail-services-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/south-western-railway-proposes-mumbai-like-suburban-rail-services-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"South Western Railway proposes Mumbai-like suburban rail services in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In a bid to decongest city traffic by running more commuter trains, South Western Railway has proposed doubling of Yelahanka-Devanahalli (23km) and quadrupling of Byappanahalli-Hosur (48.5km) sections.<\/p>\n<p>SWR has invited a tender for final location survey (FLS) for these two crucial lines. Tender is likely to be finalised by December-end.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw last month instructed SWR to take up a feasibility study for improving capacity of high-density railway lines in and around Bengaluru by doubling\/tripling\/quadrupling them, on the lines of Mumbai&#8217;s famed suburban rail system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In a bid to decongest city traffic by running more commuter trains, South Western Railway has proposed doubling of Yelahanka-Devanahalli (23km) and quadrupling of Byappanahalli-Hosur (48.5km) sections. SWR has invited a tender for final location survey (FLS) for these two crucial lines. Tender is likely to be finalised by December-end. This comes after railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw last month instructed SWR to take up a feasibility study for improving capacity of high-density railway lines in and around Bengaluru by doubling\/tripling\/quadrupling them, on the lines of Mumbai&#8217;s famed suburban rail system.<\/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":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541534","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=541534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}