{"id":654166,"date":"2025-11-27T10:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=654166"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:47:42","slug":"metro-eyes-3-minute-gap-by-2030-90-second-headway-later-with-massive-blue-line-revamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/metro-eyes-3-minute-gap-by-2030-90-second-headway-later-with-massive-blue-line-revamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro eyes 3-minute gap by 2030, 90-second headway later with massive Blue Line revamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta: Metro Railway has lined up a series of infrastructure upgrades to improve the frequency of trains on the Blue Line, the oldest Metro link now plagued by snags and delays. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the Blue Line has a peak-hour frequency of five minutes. \u201cWe aim to bring it down to three minutes first and eventually attain a headway of 90 seconds,\u201d said a senior official. The three-minute gap is expected to be achieved by 2030, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta: Metro Railway has lined up a series of infrastructure upgrades to improve the frequency of trains on the Blue Line, the oldest Metro link now plagued by snags and delays. Now, the Blue Line has a peak-hour frequency of five minutes. \u201cWe aim to bring it down to three minutes first and eventually attain a headway of 90 seconds,\u201d said a senior official. The three-minute gap is expected to be achieved by 2030, he said.<\/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":[130,265,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654166","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=654166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}