{"id":548984,"date":"2023-01-21T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=548984"},"modified":"2023-01-21T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T06:26:27","slug":"lukewarm-response-as-metro-lines-2a-and-7-open-for-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lukewarm-response-as-metro-lines-2a-and-7-open-for-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukewarm response as Metro lines 2A and 7 open for public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai Metro lines 2A and 7, which were inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, were opened to the public at 4 pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The newly inaugurated Metro lines will cut the travel time between Dahisar to Andheri to 75 minutes, and are likely to decongest the busiest roads along the suburban localities \u2014 SV Road and Western Express Highway.<\/p>\n<p>While there was excitement among the commuters about the Metro service, platforms along Line 2A were largely empty with only a handful of passengers. There were no online or UPI payment methods available for booking tickets, which likely caused inconvenience to the travellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai Metro lines 2A and 7, which were inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, were opened to the public at 4 pm on Friday. The newly inaugurated Metro lines will cut the travel time between Dahisar to Andheri to 75 minutes, and are likely to decongest the busiest roads along the suburban localities \u2014 SV Road and Western Express Highway. While there was excitement among the commuters about the Metro service, platforms along Line 2A were largely empty with only a handful of passengers. There were no online or UPI payment methods available for booking tickets, which likely [&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-548984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548984","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=548984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}