{"id":602665,"date":"2023-09-11T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T06:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=602665"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T06:15:20","slug":"3-hour-metro-disruption-leaves-passengers-in-lurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/3-hour-metro-disruption-leaves-passengers-in-lurch\/","title":{"rendered":"3-hour Metro disruption leaves passengers in lurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Thousands of Metro users were left stranded for over three hours on Saturday morning after the third rail system along the North-South line developed a technical issue just as a Dakshineswar-bound train was leaving the Kalighat station around 7.50am. Truncated services were run in the Dakshineswar-Maidan and Kavi Subhas-Tollygunge sections.<\/p>\n<p>Since the entire run could not be started till after 11am, harried passengers &#8211; mostly office-goers and students &#8211; were caught off guard. Metro Railway runs weekend services on Saturdays with 234 trains. Thousands depend on the carrier, especially for the rush hour services that are run at 5-minute intervals between 9am and 11am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fares for yellow taxis and app cabs shot up during the time the Metro was not functioning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Thousands of Metro users were left stranded for over three hours on Saturday morning after the third rail system along the North-South line developed a technical issue just as a Dakshineswar-bound train was leaving the Kalighat station around 7.50am. Truncated services were run in the Dakshineswar-Maidan and Kavi Subhas-Tollygunge sections. Since the entire run could not be started till after 11am, harried passengers &#8211; mostly office-goers and students &#8211; were caught off guard. Metro Railway runs weekend services on Saturdays with 234 trains. Thousands depend on the carrier, especially for the rush hour services that are run at 5-minute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-602665","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\/602665","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}