{"id":566383,"date":"2023-03-28T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T06:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=566383"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:12:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T07:42:20","slug":"bengaluru-commuters-give-a-thumbs-up-to-new-whitefield-kr-puram-line-some-express-disappointment-over-missing-baiyappanahalli-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-commuters-give-a-thumbs-up-to-new-whitefield-kr-puram-line-some-express-disappointment-over-missing-baiyappanahalli-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: Commuters give a thumbs up to new Whitefield-KR Puram line, some express disappointment over missing Baiyappanahalli link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was all smiles and excitement among the techies and other professionals Monday morning as the new 13.71-km-long Whitefield-Krishnarajapura (KR Puram) metro line gave them a respite from the IT corridor\u2019s notorious traffic snarls. The journey along Phase-2 of the purple line offers a picturesque view of the pink tabebuia rosea trees that are now blooming in many parts of Bengaluru, a glimpse of several IT tech parks and Fortune 500 companies, Sri Sathya Sai hospital, and finally a bird\u2019s eye view of the suburbs near Kadugodi. <\/p>\n<p>Giving a report on the ridership on Day Two, BMRCL (Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited) MD Anjum Parvez said: \u201cAs of 3 pm, we recorded over 10,000 ridership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was all smiles and excitement among the techies and other professionals Monday morning as the new 13.71-km-long Whitefield-Krishnarajapura (KR Puram) metro line gave them a respite from the IT corridor\u2019s notorious traffic snarls. The journey along Phase-2 of the purple line offers a picturesque view of the pink tabebuia rosea trees that are now blooming in many parts of Bengaluru, a glimpse of several IT tech parks and Fortune 500 companies, Sri Sathya Sai hospital, and finally a bird\u2019s eye view of the suburbs near Kadugodi. Giving a report on the ridership on Day Two, BMRCL (Bangalore Metro Rail [&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-566383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566383","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=566383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}