{"id":649745,"date":"2025-10-22T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=649745"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:02:44","slug":"14-years-after-launch-namma-metro-crawls-while-bengalurus-traffic-surges-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/14-years-after-launch-namma-metro-crawls-while-bengalurus-traffic-surges-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"14 years after launch, Namma Metro crawls while Bengaluru\u2019s traffic surges ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: On Oct 20, 2011, Namma Metro began its journey with a modest 6.7km stretch between MG Road and Byappanahalli, promising a future of seamless commute for a city already infamous for its traffic snarls.<\/p>\n<p>While Monday marked south India&#8217;s first Metro service&#8217;s 14th anniversary, the vision of a fully connected Bengaluru remains distant. The Metro network has expanded to 97km, with 83 stations and daily ridership surpassing 10 lakh commuters. Yet, for many residents, the dream of a reliable, city-wide Metro network remains unfulfilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: On Oct 20, 2011, Namma Metro began its journey with a modest 6.7km stretch between MG Road and Byappanahalli, promising a future of seamless commute for a city already infamous for its traffic snarls. While Monday marked south India&#8217;s first Metro service&#8217;s 14th anniversary, the vision of a fully connected Bengaluru remains distant. The Metro network has expanded to 97km, with 83 stations and daily ridership surpassing 10 lakh commuters. Yet, for many residents, the dream of a reliable, city-wide Metro network remains unfulfilled.<\/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-649745","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\/649745","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=649745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}