{"id":646336,"date":"2025-09-15T11:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646336"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:21:17","slug":"21-of-metro-stations-in-bengaluru-dont-have-parking-bays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/21-of-metro-stations-in-bengaluru-dont-have-parking-bays\/","title":{"rendered":"21% of Metro stations in Bengaluru don\u2019t have parking bays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Numbers tell a shocking tale: Nearly 21% of Namma Metro stations in Bengaluru do not have any parking facility at all. For every 10,000 who travel by Metro, there are just 150 parking slots \u2014 127 for two-wheelers and the rest for cars \u2014 making it nearly impossible for motorists to find parking space every single day. Instead of circling around the station for a chimera called parking zone, many motorists prefer to continue on bikes or in cars, instead of taking a ride on Metro stations, to reach their offices.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for this traffic malaise is not too far to seek. Those tracking Metro developments maintain that providing parking infrastructure had not been a priority from the time the project was conceptualised for Bengaluru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Numbers tell a shocking tale: Nearly 21% of Namma Metro stations in Bengaluru do not have any parking facility at all. For every 10,000 who travel by Metro, there are just 150 parking slots \u2014 127 for two-wheelers and the rest for cars \u2014 making it nearly impossible for motorists to find parking space every single day. Instead of circling around the station for a chimera called parking zone, many motorists prefer to continue on bikes or in cars, instead of taking a ride on Metro stations, to reach their offices. The reason for this traffic malaise is not [&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-646336","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\/646336","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=646336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}