{"id":644467,"date":"2025-08-27T11:33:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644467"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:03:30","slug":"delhi-bengaluru-metro-fare-disparity-sparks-outcry-bmrcl-hikes-up-to-71-vs-dmrcs-modest-7-commuters-fume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-bengaluru-metro-fare-disparity-sparks-outcry-bmrcl-hikes-up-to-71-vs-dmrcs-modest-7-commuters-fume\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi-Bengaluru metro fare disparity sparks outcry: BMRCL hikes up to 71% vs DMRC\u2019s modest 7%; commuters fume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) is facing renewed criticism over the steep fare hike it introduced in Feb, after Delhi Metro Rail Corporation&#8217;s (DMRC) comparatively modest revision on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi Metro, effective Monday, raised ticket prices by just Re 1 to Rs 4 \u2014 and up to Rs 5 for the Airport Express Line \u2014 an average increase of about 7%. In contrast, Namma Metro fares were raised by up to 71% earlier this year, making travel significantly costlier for daily commuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) is facing renewed criticism over the steep fare hike it introduced in Feb, after Delhi Metro Rail Corporation&#8217;s (DMRC) comparatively modest revision on Monday. Delhi Metro, effective Monday, raised ticket prices by just Re 1 to Rs 4 \u2014 and up to Rs 5 for the Airport Express Line \u2014 an average increase of about 7%. In contrast, Namma Metro fares were raised by up to 71% earlier this year, making travel significantly costlier for daily commuters.<\/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-644467","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\/644467","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=644467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}