{"id":645206,"date":"2025-09-06T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645206"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:17:25","slug":"kolkata-metro-rush-blue-lines-esplanade-station-records-1-lakh-plus-daily-footfall-up-43-after-green-line-begins-full-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kolkata-metro-rush-blue-lines-esplanade-station-records-1-lakh-plus-daily-footfall-up-43-after-green-line-begins-full-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata Metro rush: Blue Line&#8217;s Esplanade station records 1 lakh-plus daily footfall; up 43% after Green Line begins full run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The Green Line has increased the Blue Line&#8217;s footfall at the Esplanade station by 43%. The average footfall at the Esplanade metro station, which serves as an interchange between the Blue (North-South) and Green (East-West Metro) lines, has increased from a daily average of around 70,000 to approximately 1 lakh.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug 22, PM Narendra Modi introduced two new sections and a new metro line. The most crucial addition among these was the East-West Metro&#8217;s last leg, the<br \/>\n2.6km Esplanade-Sealdah section, which linked the previously disjointed 9.2km Sector V-Sealdah and the 4.8km Esplanade-Howrah Maidan sections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The Green Line has increased the Blue Line&#8217;s footfall at the Esplanade station by 43%. The average footfall at the Esplanade metro station, which serves as an interchange between the Blue (North-South) and Green (East-West Metro) lines, has increased from a daily average of around 70,000 to approximately 1 lakh. On Aug 22, PM Narendra Modi introduced two new sections and a new metro line. The most crucial addition among these was the East-West Metro&#8217;s last leg, the 2.6km Esplanade-Sealdah section, which linked the previously disjointed 9.2km Sector V-Sealdah and the 4.8km Esplanade-Howrah Maidan sections.<\/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-645206","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\/645206","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=645206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}