{"id":609690,"date":"2023-10-11T10:10:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T04:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=609690"},"modified":"2023-10-11T11:07:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T05:37:40","slug":"bengaluru-purple-line-steady-rise-in-metro-ridership-but-poor-headway-long-lines-at-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-purple-line-steady-rise-in-metro-ridership-but-poor-headway-long-lines-at-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru Purple Line: Steady rise in metro ridership but poor headway, long lines at stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metro ridership rose to nearly 7 lakh on Monday, the first day of the opening of the entire Purple Line, and was slated to breach the mark on the second day. <\/p>\n<p>Ridership more than doubled between Whitefield (Kadugodi) and Baiyappanahalli as passengers embraced the completion of the missing link (KR Pura-Baiyappanahalli). <\/p>\n<p>But higher ridership resulted in long queues at many stations. Passengers complained of low headway and poor crowd management. <\/p>\n<p>As per data provided by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), metro trains ferried 6,80,894 passengers on Monday, including 61,179 between Whitefield and Baiyappanahalli. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro ridership rose to nearly 7 lakh on Monday, the first day of the opening of the entire Purple Line, and was slated to breach the mark on the second day. Ridership more than doubled between Whitefield (Kadugodi) and Baiyappanahalli as passengers embraced the completion of the missing link (KR Pura-Baiyappanahalli). But higher ridership resulted in long queues at many stations. Passengers complained of low headway and poor crowd management. As per data provided by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), metro trains ferried 6,80,894 passengers on Monday, including 61,179 between Whitefield and Baiyappanahalli.<\/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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609690","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=609690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}