{"id":577740,"date":"2023-05-19T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=577740"},"modified":"2023-05-19T10:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:53:02","slug":"signs-of-recovery-delhi-metro-regains-90-of-pre-pandemic-ridership-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/signs-of-recovery-delhi-metro-regains-90-of-pre-pandemic-ridership-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of recovery: Delhi Metro regains 90% of pre-pandemic ridership levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, following the Covid-19 lockdowns, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) saw a drastic decrease in footfall. During the 29th foundation day celebration of DMRC, director Vikas Kumar stated that the Delhi metro had reached 90 per cent of its pre-pandemic levels. <\/p>\n<p>The daily ridership was 6-6.5 million before the pandemic and is currently 5-5.5 million passengers. <\/p>\n<p>The DMRC data, as reported by the Times of India, also shows that the Pink, Grey, and Green Lines have achieved more than 100 percent of their pre-pandemic passenger number with the opening of new stations and improving connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, following the Covid-19 lockdowns, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) saw a drastic decrease in footfall. During the 29th foundation day celebration of DMRC, director Vikas Kumar stated that the Delhi metro had reached 90 per cent of its pre-pandemic levels. The daily ridership was 6-6.5 million before the pandemic and is currently 5-5.5 million passengers. The DMRC data, as reported by the Times of India, also shows that the Pink, Grey, and Green Lines have achieved more than 100 percent of their pre-pandemic passenger number with the opening of new stations and improving connectivity.<\/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":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577740","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=577740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}