{"id":653673,"date":"2025-11-24T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=653673"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:26:31","slug":"lobbying-by-business-groups-derailed-coimbatore-metro-project-say-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lobbying-by-business-groups-derailed-coimbatore-metro-project-say-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbying by business groups derailed Coimbatore metro project, say activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COIMBATORE: A wave of disappointment has engulfed the public in Coimbatore city as their dream of an own metro rail system has been dashed. <\/p>\n<p>The Union government&#8217;s decision to return the Detailed Project Report (DPR) submitted by Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has triggered widespread anger among industrialists, activists, and commuters. <\/p>\n<p>The demands for a metro rail in Coimbatore city have been growing for more than 14 years but the latest decision has put paid to that long-cherished dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COIMBATORE: A wave of disappointment has engulfed the public in Coimbatore city as their dream of an own metro rail system has been dashed. The Union government&#8217;s decision to return the Detailed Project Report (DPR) submitted by Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has triggered widespread anger among industrialists, activists, and commuters. The demands for a metro rail in Coimbatore city have been growing for more than 14 years but the latest decision has put paid to that long-cherished dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653673","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}