{"id":600697,"date":"2023-08-31T10:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=600697"},"modified":"2023-08-31T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T06:32:25","slug":"tn-sends-plan-to-rly-board-to-revamp-mrts-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tn-sends-plan-to-rly-board-to-revamp-mrts-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"TN sends plan to rly board to revamp MRTS stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The unwieldy and desolate MRTS stations may finally get to be people-friendly, as the Tamil Nadu government has approved a draft memorandum of understanding to take over and maintain stations and platforms of MRTS stations in the city. <\/p>\n<p>The state government will take over the Beach-Velachery MRTS route with 18 stations from the railways in phases and merge it with the Chennai metro rail. The line will also be extended to St Thomas Mount in a year or two. <\/p>\n<p>As the plan is to first take over maintenance and development, the state government has begun firming up the proposals and plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The unwieldy and desolate MRTS stations may finally get to be people-friendly, as the Tamil Nadu government has approved a draft memorandum of understanding to take over and maintain stations and platforms of MRTS stations in the city. The state government will take over the Beach-Velachery MRTS route with 18 stations from the railways in phases and merge it with the Chennai metro rail. The line will also be extended to St Thomas Mount in a year or two. As the plan is to first take over maintenance and development, the state government has begun firming up the proposals [&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-600697","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\/600697","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=600697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}