{"id":647420,"date":"2025-09-23T12:32:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647420"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:32:09","slug":"reporters-diary-waiting-for-gurugrams-elusive-metro-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/reporters-diary-waiting-for-gurugrams-elusive-metro-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter\u2019s diary: Waiting for Gurugram\u2019s elusive metro project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I reported about a Gurugram Metro project was in 2016, when the Haryana government announced a plan to extend the Delhi Metro\u2019s Yellow Line from what is currently the Millennium City Centre station to Old Gurugram. The announcement had sent a wave of excitement through the city, particularly in older neighbourhoods, located to the west of the Delhi-Jaipur highway, as development there had stalled and infrastructure started crumbling, while shinier offices, wider roads, and the Rapid Metro came up in the more sought-after localities surrounding the MG Road, Golf Course Road, and Sohna Road.<\/p>\n<p>But even back then, sceptical residents, planners, and developers suspected that the announcement was more political rhetoric than reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I reported about a Gurugram Metro project was in 2016, when the Haryana government announced a plan to extend the Delhi Metro\u2019s Yellow Line from what is currently the Millennium City Centre station to Old Gurugram. The announcement had sent a wave of excitement through the city, particularly in older neighbourhoods, located to the west of the Delhi-Jaipur highway, as development there had stalled and infrastructure started crumbling, while shinier offices, wider roads, and the Rapid Metro came up in the more sought-after localities surrounding the MG Road, Golf Course Road, and Sohna Road. But even back [&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":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647420","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=647420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}