{"id":558138,"date":"2023-02-24T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T05:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=558138"},"modified":"2023-02-24T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T06:52:16","slug":"commuters-left-stranded-after-best-takes-400-cng-buses-off-city-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/commuters-left-stranded-after-best-takes-400-cng-buses-off-city-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuters left stranded after BEST takes 400 CNG buses off city roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE BRIHANMUMBAI Electric Supply and Transport undertaking (BEST)\u2019s decision to take 400 CNG run buses off Mumbai\u2019s roads starting Wednesday has caused much grief to the 35 lakh commuters who use the city\u2019s transport service everyday. Passengers are having to endure longer queues and extended waiting time at bus stops in Dadar, Andheri, Jogeshwari, CSMT among other places where these buses largely operate. <\/p>\n<p>Priyanka Shinde, a commuter who was travelling Dadar to Sewri, told The Indian Express that she had been waiting for her bus for a long time which was not the case earlier. \u201cBEST should take immediate action so the operator can bring back those buses, otherwise now in summer, waiting for buses will be agonising.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BRIHANMUMBAI Electric Supply and Transport undertaking (BEST)\u2019s decision to take 400 CNG run buses off Mumbai\u2019s roads starting Wednesday has caused much grief to the 35 lakh commuters who use the city\u2019s transport service everyday. Passengers are having to endure longer queues and extended waiting time at bus stops in Dadar, Andheri, Jogeshwari, CSMT among other places where these buses largely operate. Priyanka Shinde, a commuter who was travelling Dadar to Sewri, told The Indian Express that she had been waiting for her bus for a long time which was not the case earlier. \u201cBEST should take immediate action [&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-558138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558138","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=558138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}