{"id":598575,"date":"2023-08-19T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=598575"},"modified":"2023-08-19T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T07:16:50","slug":"2-hrs-for-30km-metro-work-on-orr-slowing-down-bmtc-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/2-hrs-for-30km-metro-work-on-orr-slowing-down-bmtc-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"2 hrs for 30km: Metro work on ORR slowing down BMTC buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Ongoing Metro works on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) stretch from Central Silk Board to Hebbal have reduced traffic movement to a crawl. With the carriageway shrunk by nearly half, BMTC buses are taking more than two hours to cover a distance of 30km during peak time. <\/p>\n<p>Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) operates 2,179 trips on the ORR. As per its schedule, BMTC has set 1.4 hours to complete a single trip, but severe congestion has increased the travel time to 2 to 2.5 hours. <\/p>\n<p>A driver of route no. 500B said, &#8220;Driving on ORR during peak hours is a nightmare. Now, the works are in progress on the entire stretch, resulting in more traffic congestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Ongoing Metro works on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) stretch from Central Silk Board to Hebbal have reduced traffic movement to a crawl. With the carriageway shrunk by nearly half, BMTC buses are taking more than two hours to cover a distance of 30km during peak time. Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) operates 2,179 trips on the ORR. As per its schedule, BMTC has set 1.4 hours to complete a single trip, but severe congestion has increased the travel time to 2 to 2.5 hours. A driver of route no. 500B said, &#8220;Driving on ORR during peak hours is [&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":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598575","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=598575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}