{"id":542636,"date":"2022-12-13T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T04:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=542636"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T05:53:53","slug":"we-are-working-to-ensure-a-commuter-doesnt-spend-over-10-minutes-at-a-bus-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/we-are-working-to-ensure-a-commuter-doesnt-spend-over-10-minutes-at-a-bus-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are working to ensure a commuter doesn\u2019t spend over 10 minutes at a bus stop\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Town Hall hosted by The Indian Express, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking General Manager Lokesh Chandra speaks about his plans for augmenting the BEST bus fleet in Mumbai and steps to improve passenger comfort.<\/p>\n<p>In next four years, BEST will complete a century of operations in Mumbai. For an entity that remained profitable and efficient for so long, what went wrong with BEST?<\/p>\n<p>Operation-wise, public transport is never a profitable business world over and it\u2019s a well-known fact. BEST operated on a unique model whereby we were also given the licence for electricity distribution. Till 2003, we were cross-subsiding our transport operations from our electricity business. In 2003, the new Electricity Act came into being,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Town Hall hosted by The Indian Express, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking General Manager Lokesh Chandra speaks about his plans for augmenting the BEST bus fleet in Mumbai and steps to improve passenger comfort. In next four years, BEST will complete a century of operations in Mumbai. For an entity that remained profitable and efficient for so long, what went wrong with BEST? Operation-wise, public transport is never a profitable business world over and it\u2019s a well-known fact. BEST operated on a unique model whereby we were also given the licence for electricity distribution. Till 2003, we [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542636","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=542636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}