{"id":652272,"date":"2025-11-11T12:23:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652272"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:53:33","slug":"bengalurus-namma-metro-pink-line-launch-date-pushed-by-five-months-again-when-will-it-be-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengalurus-namma-metro-pink-line-launch-date-pushed-by-five-months-again-when-will-it-be-operational\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru\u2019s Namma Metro Pink Line: Launch date pushed by five months again. When will it be operational?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited Namma Metro Pink Line in Bengaluru has hit yet another roadblock, this time due to a shortage of train rakes. The delay is expected to push the corridor\u2019s commercial launch by nearly five months, extending the wait for commuters even further.<\/p>\n<p>Originally scheduled for inauguration in 2020, the 21.25 km Kalena Agrahara\u2013Nagawara corridor has seen its deadline repeatedly postponed \u2014 first to late 2025, then to March 2026, and now to May 2026. Although the elevated section is ready, no train sets have arrived for trial runs yet, as per a report by Bangalore Mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited Namma Metro Pink Line in Bengaluru has hit yet another roadblock, this time due to a shortage of train rakes. The delay is expected to push the corridor\u2019s commercial launch by nearly five months, extending the wait for commuters even further. Originally scheduled for inauguration in 2020, the 21.25 km Kalena Agrahara\u2013Nagawara corridor has seen its deadline repeatedly postponed \u2014 first to late 2025, then to March 2026, and now to May 2026. Although the elevated section is ready, no train sets have arrived for trial runs yet, as per a report by Bangalore Mirror.<\/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-652272","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\/652272","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=652272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}